Thanks so much to Penguin Random House for giving me the opportunity to review this amazing book.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The Bold Type meets The
Social Network when three girls participate in a startup incubator competition and uncover the truth about what it means to succeed in the male-dominated world of tech.
This summer Silicon Valley is a girls' club.
Meet the Screen Queens.
Lucy Katz was born and raised in Palo Alto, so tech, well, it runs in her blood. A social butterfly and CEO in-the-making, Lucy is ready to win and party.
East Coast designer, Maddie Li left her home and small business behind for a summer at ValleyStart. Maddie thinks she's only there to bolster her graphic design portfolio, not to make friends.
Delia Meyer taught herself how to code on a hand-me-down computer in her tiny Midwestern town. Now, it's time for the big leagues--ValleyStart--but super shy Delia isn't sure if she can hack it (pun intended).
When the competition kicks off, Lucy, Maddie, and Delia realize just how challenging the next five weeks will be. As if there wasn't enough pressure already, the girls learn that they would be the only all-female team to win ever. Add in one first love, a two-faced mentor, and an ex-boyfriend turned nemesis and things get...complicated.
Filled with humor, heart, and a whole lot of girl power, Screen Queens is perfect for fans of Morgan Matson, Jenny Han, and The Bold Type.
REVIEW
The whole time I was reading this, I kept thinking this is exactly how When Dimple Met Rishi should have gone. These three girls have a lot in common. They are into app design and technology mumbo jumbo. They also feel alienated by the people around them. Lucy and Maddie have parent issues and Delia doesn't have many friends.
Lucy is the main unlikable girl in the group. She is super organized and anal like the mother from The Little Prince movie on Netflix. She also cares more about how she is perceived online than in real life. Because to her, her online Pulse score is her ticket to Stanford.
Maddie is the diverse character and she doesn't really want to be at ValleyStart. She constantly worries about her little brother and how her crap parents fight about everything. She is still bitter about her video game design being stolen on a forum. With how smart this character seems to be, that was just plain stupid trusting even a forum.
Delia is the midwestern girl who lets people and even her team walk all over her. She is a coder and a good one, but she has issues throughout the book of not being able to figure out what is wrong with the user interface. She is adored by her parents, who own this theatre business that is falling down the boring rabbit hole.
Overall, I enjoyed this book, not for the characters, but for all of the tech and app design that was included. The lingo of what is used in app design was at the beginning of every chapter heading.
AUTHOR BIO
Lori Goldstein was born into an Italian-Irish family and raised in a small town on the New Jersey shore. She earned her bachelor's degree in journalism from Lehigh University and worked as a writer, editor, and graphic designer before becoming a full-time author. She currently lives and writes outside of Boston. Lori is also the author of the young adult contemporary fantasy series Becoming Jinn (Feiwel &
Friends/Macmillan). You can visit her online at www.lorigoldsteinbooks.com.
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