This book is about three teenage girls and their friendship, their battle through high school life and the things that come with it - drink, drugs and sex. We have the straight As student who gets too close to her teacher, the popular girl gone bad and her alcoholic parents, and the original badass with a drug-addicted single mother. The three girls call themselves "the Bitch Posse".

I thought this was awful and feel I wasted a day trying to get into it. I finally decided to give up on it as I didn't care what happened to any of the characters.
I don't really know why I even rated it as high as 2

Sending to my NSSH&CAS partner. I hope you don't think I am sending my rubbish to you but just because I didn't like it doesn't mean you won't.

How exciting finally able to open my BCUK, Not-So-Secret-Halloween / Celebrating-Autumn-Surprise 2010 parcel to find I have dolph1n to thank for this book:
The Bitch Goddess Notebook – Martha O’Connor

…plus two other books;
Ghost Stories – various Authors
A Quiet Belief in Angels - R.J. Ellory

…and in addition a Halloween party bag containing; a host of eyeball marshmallows (now devoured); A bar of dark chocolate (YUM, considering chocolate for breakfast…); three bookmarks; some BC release labels(always useful); some shaped post-its (pretty & practical); a pack of pens; a Halloweeny craft project and a tiny wee bar of soap. Oh yes, and also, how could I forget, the splendid skeleton bookmark! Woo hoo!!!

Thanks dolph1n

THE BITCH GODDESS NOTEBOOK – MARTHA O’CONNOR (2005)
ISBN: 0-75286-739-3
Fantastic Fiction: "Astonishing... If this isn't Alice Sebold, Donna Tart or Barbara Vine writing under a pseudonym, the Martha O'Connor is a huge new talent." Lee Child

Set in a small-town high school in Illinois in 1988, three misfit girls join forces with devastating consequences. Rennie, the stunningly attractive straight-A student, finds herself way out of her depth when she embarks on an affair with her married teacher. Cherry builds a shrine to Princess Diana in her bedroom while nursing her hippy mother through her coke-fuelled rages. Amy, who tears up her cheerleader's uniform while her drunken parents concentrate on presenting a facade of perfect family life to the outside world.

Together the three girls form the Bitch Goddesses, a take-no-prisoners gang of fierce teenage rebellion. They swear to stick together, whatever life throws at them, until one night at Porter's Point when something so horrific happens it shatters their friendship forever. Fifteen years on, Rennie is a writer living in New York, struggling to keep her life on track and hiding an erotic obsession. In her Lake Superior show-home, a heavily pregnant Amy is certain that her husband is cheating on her and that she is jinxed by her past. Cherry, a model patient - obedient, co-operative, taking her medication on time - wakes in blind terror every night in an institution, dreaming of four red letters carved on human skin.

The Bitch Goddesses may have grown up, but one way or another they must come to terms with a shared past...
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Angsty teenage melodrama aimed at young adult readers? Somehow it seemed a little too contrived and how it managed to skitter over some of these heavy issues in such an almost caressing way seemed nearly obscene given their disturbing nature. Neglected children, bone deep distresses, self-harm, self-medication, murder…!

Actually didn’t settle to this so only really scanned it when it comes down to it. I could have easily have missed more than enough to give me a good picture…

Don’t think I’ll re-tackle it as currently way over loaded with books so time to pass it on!

This bookcrossing book is being made available at an event --- PICNIC IN THE PARK --- it will be in a book-box with me either on the Tea, Coffee & Cakes stall or maybe under a table in the craft tent?

The fun takes place this Saturday - piles of stuff happening for all there - families, cool dudes, elderly rellies, cute neighbours, passers-by, locals of all shapes and sizes…

| 12 noon till 4pm | Sat 15th Sept 2012 | Montgomery Street Park | Edinburgh, Scotland UK |
Check it out - come and take part in the bits that sound fun for you!
www.montgomerystreetpark.org.uk
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I was excited to get the book but was disappointed with it. It was a waste of time reading it.