Beauty Queens - Libba Bray

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Title: Beauty Queens
Author: Libba Bray
Genre: YA
Rating: 4/5
# pages: Audiobook ~17hrs, 400 pages
Date read: February 2013, April 2015, October 2020

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?

I was in the mood for some light reading, and this fit the bill perfectly. The plot seems to be a mix between "Miss Congeniality" and "Lost", and, though absurd at times, actually works. I found myself laughing out loud on more than one occasion.

The audiobook I found was narrated by Libba Bray herself, and she did an amazing job. No doubt a lot of my enjoyment of the book was due to her narrating. I especially loved Tiara's "voice".

The book is neither deep nor thought-provoking, but it's fun and entertaining. Sometimes that's all I ask for.