**** - A quick read with a likeable main character and a lot of really funny moments. I was actually surprised as the author also writes the Private series which really wasn't my thing. The series are nothing alike - Non-Blonde Cheerleader is much lighter.Annisa Gobrowski feels like she just landed on another planet. When she shows up for her first day at her new high school in Florida, she's the only non-blonde in sight. Add that to a killer first day - in which she's labeled a brainiac back-stabbing klutz who also managed to break the head cheerleader's nose - and things are off to a very rocky start. Especially since all Annisa wants is to be a part of the award-winning cheerleading team...
I'm not a cheerleader. Nor did I ever want to be. I was pretty much the opposite of all cheerleaders. But I liked I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader a ton. I liked the characters - hunky Daniel Healy, Goth girl Bethany (who I kept picturing as Abby from NCIS), and smart-mouthed Annisa. I loved the way her voice came across - like when she referred to a certain ice cream flavor as "happiness in a carton". She's just the right mixture of goofy, smart, and boy-struck to make her believable and someone I would want to be friends with. That's always a good sign.
Non-Blonde Cheerleader was a lot of fast-paced fluffy fun. I admired Annisa for standing up to the cheerleading squad even when they have it out for her, and I was really impressed that the novel showed actual consequences to not studying for your Calculus tests (seriously, I hate books where people do all kinds of other stuff and never have to study for anything...). There was a lot of training and 'sports' stuff, romantic entanglements, and a prank war... All of the things my high school life was nothing like - but that are awfully fun to read about.
I'll be looking for the sequels!
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