Rifton Girls' High School is the most elite all-girls school in the city. With a strict scholarship-only admission, a grand school campus and plentiful funding from its wealthy alumni, it is no doubt that the already-talented young ladies within its...
6. I have no idea which country Rifton is in. I am an uncultured frog in a well, research was hard and I didn't want to be a clown right from the beginning.
so let's all assume this is a literary device, despite me failing to mention them explicitly and explain them in the exams, that characters such as this, and organisations with wild politics are e v e r y w h e r e !!!
7. Angeline plays the role of the typical MC in a mystery novel - the one who goes out to investigate, to figure out what the heck is going on and gets shooketh at the conclusion. However, this book takes the mastermind's POV, so you don't really get to see what is going on with her. Instead, you see what Selene thinks of Angeline as an investigator.
8. Despite having said that Selene is the villain compared to the rest, this story was meant to blur the lines between good and bad. None of the girls are completely good people, and the bad things they do manifest from aspects of their own lives. As camjensen mentioned in her lovely comments, all of these girls have the capacity to be a 'mean girl' of sorts. There is no singularly all-evil character.
9. Compared to other revenge teen fic books regarding a preppy rich kid school on wp, I'm aware that this story is honestly, in comparison, boring and one-sided.
But that's the point. The content of this book is to highlight that while childish and petty, this is kind of what normal students worry about on a daily basis - school project participation, how many friends they have, what one (1) person did to ruin their day and their test grades. Here, we don't see fake dating to take down the 'king' of the school and how kids are linked to their parents' business empires and all that. And revenge happens for even pettier reasons, compared to character deaths and serious issues. As foolish as it is, this is sometimes life - worrying about miniscule, petty things that we shouldn't be thinking about.
10. One flaw I will admit to regarding this is that the plot is actually unrealistic.
No girl is gonna go into the school and see all her peers screwing up conveniently for her revenge plan that she also conveniently develops along the way. It's unrealistic and wild, I know, despite it being a story and all. And I wish I could make up a better revenge plot, but here are the main explanations for that.
a) Selene is not super proactive in revenge. She came into the new school year expecting nothing great for herself. If they never screwed up, she wouldn't do a thing because she's not that obsessed with the idea of revenge to learn coding and hack a computer for dirt, since all of this drama is mostly too petty, even for her. There wouldn't be a story if things didn't happen the way they did.
b) Complacency. My theory is that the girls were very careful about behaviour in the first year, but they thought they had it in the bag after one year of walking on eggshells. That's when careless slip-ups began to come through, since they'd gotten more comfortable with each other and all.
BONUS THING - You've noticed that Selene constantly disses things in pop culture, haven't you? Admittedly, I have included these as satirical elements to point out the existence of over-obsessed, sometimes toxic stans that we commonly witness in real life.
However, this is also a play on the trope known commonly as "i'M nOt LiKe OtHeR gIrLs". I think it's important to view things from both sides, and this is my take on the issue - there is nothing wrong with being that way, as long as you aren't faking it to be qUiRkY for attention OR tearing other people down for being feminine. Likewise, those who fit the "other girls" category shouldn't attack someone for not being feminine... because that is NOT women supporting women.
And that's all for now.
So, once again,
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(ah, yes, and a special mention for taylor swift, for giving us the quality content that is the entire reputation album and lwymmd that fits this story perfectly.)
(and of course, to every revenge/fake friends/life is scheming song out there, too.)
(extra content coming soon, as I mentioned above.)
