Review: Barbie Girl - Heidi Acosta
Review: Barbie Girl - Book #1 Baby Doll Series - Heidi Acosta - November 2012
This is a book that I have
had on my kindle for years and I brought it originally as I loved the cover.
Barbie Girl by Heidi Acosta is an Edgy YA novel and shows readers not to judge
others by what they look like on the exterior as in this book we have two
female leads Barbie and Katie. Barbie is the girl from the wrong side of the
tracks, she looks rough and there are always rumors about her flying around
that she has done drugs and sleeps around whereas Katie gets the perfect
grades, has a good family and looks wholesome and clean as she is saving
herself supposedly for marriage. The truth is though that these girls couldn't
be as different from the facade they put out. Barbie is failing in maths and so
she gets a tutor - Dylan whom they were friends in second grade. As the book
goes along, Dylan agrees to help Barbie on the condition she can help make
Katie fall in love with him. Barbie agrees as she needs to pass so she can make
a life out of the trailer park for her autistic brother and herself. I loved
this part as some of Barbie's stories resonated with my own upbringing
including having a sibling with autism. During the book though Dylan starts to
have feelings for Barbie, she won't let him in and he gets jealous as Barbie is
becoming good friends with Dylan's BFF Third. I have to say I hated Dylan's
character as he judged too much whereas his best friend actually got to see the
real Barbie and her family and accepted her for who she really was. This was a
good edgy YA Novel filled with angst and showed us that beautiful on the
outside doesn't necessarily mean you are beautiful and a nice person on the
inside aka Don't judge a book by its cover.
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