I wanted to be a feminist I wanted to write a great piece of feminist literature and yet, I still succumbed to my own internalized misogyny. Stereotypes had been drilled into my brain and I often forgot how stupid they were. While I was in high school, I hated double standards and yet was probably guilty of believing in some of them. After writing essays on Margaret Atwood novels, I'd decided I was a feminist but it took years and my time at college to fully understand it. When I was in my mid-to-late teens, I had discovered feminism but wasn't quite sure what it meant in practice. Some annoying dialogue aside, the writing itself is decent, but there is something about this story, the relationships in it and the way it portrays feminism which is incredibly immature. I think this is one of those books that was evidently written by a teenager an extremely talented teenager, I'll give her that (I couldn't have done it at 18/19) but a teenager nonetheless.

Then, of course, Bianca had to compare Toby and Wesley to Linton and Heathcliff, which is really just very unfair. and my heart would race for jerkface too. But he had a way of making my heart race and my head spin.” He was irritatingly charming, and his cute little grin could really get under my skin. Sure, he was incredibly hot, but he could annoy the hell out of me. An arrogant, womanizing rich boy who put sex before everything else. I liked being with him, and he always put me first.” I mean, he was a little dorky, but that was what made him so adorable. Toby was perfect in every conceivable way. Smart, cute, funny, polite, sensitive, and practical.

I remember the days when I would read this: I know this will be especially enjoyable for girls in their teens - just as the author was when she wrote it. so she sleeps with none other than - you guessed it - Wesley Rush. She needs something to take her out of this world, numb her mind and make her forget who she is for a little while.

With all this happening, Bianca longs for a way to 'escape'. Her mother is away most of the time and her dad is a recovering alcoholic on the brink of a relapse. However, being a teenage girl with all the insecurities that go along with that, Bianca can't quite forget what Wesley called her. Bianca responds to the insult by doing what any self-respecting woman should do and throwing the nearest beverage into the douchebag's face. This above exchange takes place between our narrator - Bianca - and Hamilton's resident notorious manwhore, Wesley Rush.

It's entertaining in parts, annoying in others, and sends out a confusing mix of messages. The word that first comes to mind when thinking back over this book is messy.

The DUFF by Kody Keplinger