Item: Bad Habits
Rating: 4
Author: Gina

Bad Habits by Flynn Meaney | Review | BBNYA Finalist Tour

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Thank you to Flynn Meaney, TWR, Penguin Books, & NetGalley for providing me the information for this tour. I received a copy of the book for the tour. The following review is my honest, unbiased opinion.

Bad Habits by Flynn Meaney
Published by Penguin on 02/11/2021
Genres: Fiction, Humorous, Young Adult
Format: Audiobook, Paperback
Pages: 320

Hilarious, bold, sparky and surprising, this is the funniest feminist book you'll read all year.

Alex is a rebel from the tip of her purple fauxhawk to the toes of her biker boots. She's tried everything she can think of to get expelled from her strict Catholic boarding school. Nothing has worked so far - but now, Alex has a new plan.

Tired of the sexism she sees in every corner of St Mary's, Alex decides to stage the school's first-ever production of The Vagina Monologues. Which is going to be a challenge, as no one else at St Mary's can even bear to say the word 'vagina' out loud . . .

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My thoughts on Bad Habits by Flynn Meaney

Alex is a rebel in the making. While trying desperately to get expelled from her strict Catholic boarding school, she tries trick after trick. She just wants to go back home. When nothing works, she decides the only thing left to do is for her Feminist Club to put on the play, The Vagina Monologues. Hilarity ensues as she butts up against nuns, priests, and fellow students who can’t even say the word out loud.

There are the typical fumbling kisses and desperate tries of students to attract the attention of the opposite sex. Even readers long out of high school will remember those days when drama and tragedy could come and go many times during a day.

You can take this book as deep as you would like. It’s laugh-out-loud funny if you are in the mood to be entertained. Yet, you can look for deeper messages of feminism, patriarchal supremacy, the effects of divorce on children, and so much more, if you so desire.

This book will appeal to readers of many ages and lovers of different genres. I recommend everyone take a chance and see what appeals most to you in this entertaining book.

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Bad Habits by Flynn Meaney

About Flynn Meaney

Flynn Meaney grew up in Mamaroneck, New York, ten minutes away from Pelham, home to the fictional Finbar Frame. She graduated from Rye Neck High School, where she participated in every nerdy activity imaginable, including Mock Trial, Academic Challenge, literary magazine and the school band. Flynn's hilarious high school friends and their conversations preserved in letters, emails, and notes passed in class have provided endless inspiration for her YA writing.

Flynn went on to study Marketing and French at the University of Notre Dame, where she spent many Saturdays standing on bleachers in the freezing cold cheering on a losing football team (Go Irish!) and also took her first creative writing workshop courses. She studied abroad in Paris and also at University College Dublin.

After graduating from Notre Dame in 2009 with President Obama as her commencement speaker (and successfully sneaking snacks past the Secret Service under her graduation robe), Flynn moved back to New York to study poetry at Hunter College and hang out with her vampire-obsessed friend Lucila, whose comment "Now that vampires are so hot, we can stop tanning" planted the first seeds of the idea for Bloodthirsty.

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