The Hottie List sounds like something so childish. It is a list where the top 10 most populear, gorgeous girls are in, and everyone is obsessed about it. So much, almost the whole school is ruled by the list, everyone knows the list, and the book makes us believe that to anyone who was chosen to be on that stupid list, that was their highest point of their lives. I actually don't believe someone in an highschool would do it. I mean, where I live, this would be simply something too stupid for someone to do. And I'm going to skip the whole "objectifying" women, by putting them on a list regarding their looks, because guess who votes? The guys. I get so sick of writers - specially women - who need to writes books with girls ditching other girls. Being total bitches and being like or even worse than their males counterparts. We get to the point where there is the insinuation of a girl giving blowjobs just to enter the list. And the worse? Since she was second place, she gave "second hand blowjobs". I mean, what? 
 Isn't it enough that everyone is so obsesed with the list? 
 I mean, everyone, because the list "opens doors to popularity" and to all the boys you could ever want, and other things that really only matter when you're in high school, cause when you move on to college - or even to get a job -, you get a reality check. 
 Mackenzie "Kenzie" Summerall is our main character. Between the tragic death of her brother, her parents imminent divorce and her mother being an extremely protective mom, who doesn't even let her do anything, she isn't much impressed with her name being on that list. And by that, I mean that, in the whole damn school, she is THE ONLY ONE who doesn't care. How cute. Unfortunatly for her, her best friend, Molly, cares. And she cares way too much, in a way that makes her really annoying and shallow. Molly wants to use her best friend's new found popularity to gain her own, and oh boy, isn't she going to be a bitch about it. She complains, she makes Kenzie go to parties and makes her take her, and makes her introduce to other popular people, and then gets mad when the other popular girls don't want to talk to her and puts all the fault in Kenzie, and so on. You get the point. 
 She is, for the most of the book, a shitty best friend. 
 Kenzie is also a very one-dimensional character, and an annoying one for me. Throughout the book, we get the felling that she talks real big and agressive, but it's actually very passive and naive. 
 We get reminded almost constantly how smart she is 
 , either because of her grades, or because of her talent on translating phrases from Latin. She was supposed to be the main, strong, smart character, standing above all the ones, but the way the writer made all the other characters, it wouldn't be hard, and, for me, it was too much. She is portrayed almost as the only smart character in the whole damned book, reminding everyone how she wants only to focus on going to college, while everyone is obsessed by a stupid list. She is really good at Latin, although she is in a class where there might be many other students that may also be good, and if I recall it well, she even has a club - Latin club? -, but she only talks about it, and we never get to actually see her go the the damned club. Everyone tells her that she is pretty, enough for being on the list, but she doesn't believe it. Is it because she is smart, she doesn't allow herself to think she is pretty? One thing excludes the other? I don't think it works that way. It always makes me sad when a character has so much potential, and it goes to waste. 
 But if this wasn't bad enough - when it comes to the characters - we get Josh. Kenzie's crush for a long time, and the boy who notices her only when she is a part of the list. Coincidence much? 
 He also almost never calls her for her name, but rather, calls her "Fifth" 
 . He keeps ignoring whatever she says, claiming her for himself, not even being half-brained enough to ask her about it, and being rettibly pushy about everything, the whole time? Listen, I'm going to have a real talk moment with you all : if a boy never calls your name, but rather a stupid nickname only because you are in a stupid list, kick him hard in the balls. And then run as fast as you can. Even more if he only started to show some kind of interest when you got into the list. Guys like that aren't worth a damn. Am I supposed to feel all bubbly and some kind of connection with a character like that? 
 The only character that I - and as I read some reviews, other people - liked was Levi. Even though he had the cliche "bad boy with a bad reputation and a dark, sad past/life", he was interesting to read about. I enjoyed knowing his past and his story. I didn't enjoyed much the romantic part between him and Kenzie, because it was too fast, too awkward, too strange, and because she kept only being interest in his looks. 
 The guy has more to know than only that. 
 And the fact that the book made me suspect of him sometimes also made me appreciate even further the guy, because he proved me wrong everytime. 
 The rest of the story is rushed, kind of uninteresting mystery, confusing at times, with a lot of unnecessary stuff along the way and converging into an ending that was expected, but not unpleasant. There were really good parts, where the writer kept you wondering what was going to happen, or what the hell was going on, but for me, it was mainly confusing. There were plot holes that made me sigh and roll my eyes at times, there were things left unexplained because they were so rushed, but one thing I'll give to the writer : there were some parts were my eyes almost popped out of disbelief. Those were the high points of the book for me, and those made me enjoy reading the book. The ending made me think that there is going to be another book, and I don't know if it's a good idea or not, but we'll see. 
 Final Thoughts : 
 The story was enjoyable, because of its fast pacing and highs and lows. The characters were not very well written and worked, but we got Levi, and beggars can't be choosers. But it managed to do its work, and it was make me interested enough to read it to the end, and it made me kind of hope for another book. I want to see where this story is going, and how things will develop.