I was really excited going into this book because I had heard a lot of great things about it. I think the concept is really smart and interesting, but to be honest it fell short for me. 
 The beginning of the book was kind of boring and there were a few moments where I felt like the author was judging people who didn't do things the way she did. For instance there's a part where she says she wasted a bunch of hours away reading a bunch of teen fashion websites and should have spent her time reading classic works of literature instead. 
 Her journal entries were also a bit disjointed. Some were about her journey following Betty's popularity book, but many were about mundane things going on in her life that weren't very noteworthy. It felt like they were trying to combine a social experiment with a memoir and make it really moving, but the problem was that there's not much to say in the life of this particular 8th grader. 
 The best part of the book for me had to be the part of the experiment where Maya sits at all the different lunch room tables and sees the reactions of the different cliques at school. That made my bring up my rating by a star because it seemed like the most important part of her experiment. I loved seeing the different answers from different cliques in her school about who was popular and what popularity meant. 
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