The great Lakeside High Experiment is Jen's idea. And she easily talks her boyfriend, Larry, and two other boyfriends into it. It's so simple. Just take a nothing, wallflower girl, pretend she's really great, and make her into a glamorous new person. All they have to do is keep it a secret from her.
The subject they choose is lifeless, bumbling Maude. Everything works fine... at first. Maude gains confidence, changes her appearance, begins to dress better. But soon Jen suspects things are going a little too well. She certainly doesn't expect Larry to fall for Maude! But he does, and after that everything crumbles and keeps crumbling. Until the night the experiment explodes—for all of them.
Maude is just a really odd name to assign to a teenage girl in the 1980s. The oddness of the name made the story harder for me to enjoy.
It's obvious that Jen and Larry don't belong together. Their relationship is really odd and seems a bit fake.
The book is overall very good, but I did a lot of skimming.
It isn't fair.
Lisa gets stuck with everything at once—the anguish of moving and switching schools during her senior year, the worry over her father's illness... and the heartbreak of leaving her boyfriend, Loren.
Lisa tries to cling to her old life, and makes a dreadful mistake. She feels so alone, but can't face making friends with any of the new kids—even Curt Hysland who likes her and wants to help her. How long can Lisa hold on to the past? Does starting over mean losing what she had before?
This book is just good at the beginning, good enough that I read it. After the story gets going, the book is excellent. I enjoyed the character growth that occurs. I very much enjoyed this book.
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