Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Title: Beauty Queens

Author: Libba Bray

Type: Novel
Genre: Young Adult

Series: No

Pages: 390
Copyright:  2011

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Rating: 3.5 out of 5


Summary: From Good reads.
The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner.

What's a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent portion of the program - or wrestle snakes to the ground? Get a perfect tan - or learn to run wild? And what should happen when the sexy pirates show up?

Welcome to the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Your tour guide? None other than Libba Bray, the hilarious, sensational, Printz Award-winning author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Going Bovine. The result is a novel that will make you laugh, make you think, and make you never see beauty the same way again.






Feelings: 
This book is hilarious. I wasn't sure I was going to like it since it is beauty queens that are in a plane crash. They crash on a deserted island and to survive they must conquer the jungle and learn to be self sufficient.

The Corporation controls everything and these beauty queens become the exception. Which is just a little troublesome to the corporation.

We at The Corporation would like you to enjoy this story, but please me vigilant while you are reading. If you should happen to notice anything suspicious in the coming pages, do alert the proper authorities. Remember, it could be anything at all -- a subversive phrase, an improper thought or feeling let out of its genie bottle of repression, an idea that challenges the status quo, the suggestion that life may not be what it appears to be and that all you've taken for granted (malls, shopping, the relentless pursuit of a elusive happiness, prescription drugs ads, those annoying perfume samples in magazines that make your eyes water, the way anchormen and women shift easily from the jovial laughter of a story about a dog that hula-hoops to a grave report on a bus crash that has left five teenagers dead) may be of more consequential than the tattered hem of a dream, leaving you with a bottomless, free-fall feeling. (page 1-2)

This is a long quote I know but I think it gives you a good idea what is coming if you read the book. Yes this is the perspective of The Corporation and most of the story is from the Miss Teen Dream Pageant contestants that have survived the plane crash.

I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good laugh and yes maybe just a little bit of a scar when it comes to how we perceive beauty.