![]() Gorgeous teenage girls used to tanning, teeth whitening and tearing apart the competition fend for themselves while awaiting rescue! Who will go down first?īut this is Libba Bray, a writer much more interested in subverting that paradigm - girl-on-girl psychological violence as spectator sport - than playing into it. Considering the premise - a plane full of pageant contestants crashes on a small tropical island - and the cover image of a bikini-clad girl’s midriff draped with a bandoleer of lipstick cases instead of cartridges, it could seem like another excuse to pit girls against one another, a log on the mean-girl fire. author Libba Bray assume that her fifth novel, “Beauty Queens,” is an updated, female version of “Lord of the Flies,” they can be forgiven. ![]() If bookstore browsers unfamiliar with the best-selling Y.A. ![]()
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