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    Oh My Goth

    By Gena Showalter

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    A note from Jade Leighton’s journal

    Years ago, a tragic accident robbed me of my mother and emotions. Because I find beauty in darkness and thrive outside social norms, I’ve been labeled a “freak” at school. I know my continued apathy hurts my loved ones, but I’m not about to change. Nothing will ever hurt me again.

    Then I wake up in an alternate reality…and everything else has changed. Goth is in. I’m considered cool, and my archenemy—the formerly popular Mercedes—is the freak. But my real friends won’t talk to me...and the new boy is getting under my skin. As my world spins out of control, I’m desperate to return to normal. But the more time that passes, the less I’m sure what “normal” really is.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin
    Release dateSep 4, 2018
    ISBN9781488098895
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    Gena Showalter

    Gena Showalter is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of over seventy books, including the acclaimed Lords of the Underworld series, the Gods of War series, the White Rabbit Chronicles, and the Forest of Good and Evil series. She writes sizzling paranormal romance, heartwarming contemporary romance, and unputdownable young adult novels, and lives in Oklahoma City with her family and menagerie of dogs. Visit her at GenaShowalter.com.

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    • 4/5
      This book plays into any teenagers nightmares/dreams. It is a great "What would happen if..." alternate reality story which dragged me in. I read this in record time.
    • 3/5
      This was a cute, quick read. It was a YA paranormal, but not in the normal sense. I really enjoyed the ending. It was realistic (as realistic can be), and Jade and Merecedes seemed to learn their lesson. My only complaint is that I wish it was a little bit longer so that I could see more of what happened later in the end.
    • 5/5
      This is my all time favorite book. I've never been a fan of reading books more than once, but I've read this one at least 5 times. The story is amazing, there's romance, some mystery, and a lesson. Plus, I love Jade's attitude.
    • 5/5
      Heh. Goth. I used to be Goth in high school, but I felt quite different about it than Jade, the heroine of this book, did. But I loved the premise of this book (even though I often find myself disappointed with alternate universes). The voices were excellent, and the moral of the story wasn't too heavy-handed. A quick, fun read.
    • 4/5
      This is a fun book, for teens and adults alike. Gena Showalter always creates fabulous characters that are entertaining yet also accessible. In this case, it's Jade Leigh and Mercedes Turner -- two complete opposites with a mutual hatred for one another. Watching these two navigate the trials of an ultra clique-conscious high school is both amusing and poignant. And then, of course, there's Clarik Spanger. You can always count on Showalter to deliver a hunky, exciting man -- or boy -- to the party. Although, I liked that the romance between Jade and Clarik didn't dominate the story; ultimately, this book is about Jade and her place in the world. There's a wonderful message about identity and acceptance worked through everything. So do read it because I bet you'll like it.
    • 3/5
      Despite my early extreme dislike for the main character, and the familiarity of the trope, I ended up liking this one and actually wanting it to go on longer than it did.Jade is a young lady with a terrible attitude, a penchant for I'm-so-different clothing and accessories, and a deep desire to be unique, whatever the cost. After too many Principal visits, she and a popular girl who has also been getting into trouble, are subjected to a Freaky Friday object lesson engineered by said Principal with the help of a mad scientist. Young teenagers, currently experiencing the I'm-so-different phase, might find Jade more relatable. I don't have a problem with dressing to express yourself or not wanting to be mainstream, but I do have a problem with mouthing off to teachers, even if they are provoking you. I didn't find the school's extreme persecution of Jade terribly realistic. I'm sure there are some evil teachers out there, but most are just trying to do their jobs, and would not be in the running for tenure if they spoke to Jade the way her teacher does. However, Jade's character improves throughout the book, which is kind of the point, that you can be unique and different without being a biyatch. Also, the popular girl learns that she can be popular and still be nice to the "freaks." So, that's nice. The end. (Seriously, it's a pretty abrupt ending.)
    • 5/5
      This book is the best I've EVER read. It's inspired me so much. Made me laugh and made me cry.
    • 3/5
      Pretty silly. Experimental disciplinary program switches goth girl and "barbie" girl. Very mild amusement ensues.
    • 4/5
      This was a very good quick read. Jade is a Goth girl in a sea of Barbies. While she has never been popular, she does have a great group of best friends. Two years ago Jade and her mother were in a terrible car accident. Her mother died, but Jade will never forget her last words about the importance of being your own person. Unfortunately being her own person isn't going over that well at school. Jade gets in trouble and ends up being sent into a virtual reality world to be taught a lesson, along with her worst enemy Miranda. In this world everything is reversed, Jade is popular and Miranda is an outcast. For a little while Jade slips into the dream of being popular and all of it's positives, but in the end, she remembers her mothers words and learns to be true to herself. While this may be Jade's book, it seems like Miranda learns the bigger lesson. Jade is a great character who is incredibly engaging and keeps the pace of the book going.
    • 4/5
      Just when you think you know where the story is headed, it makes a u-turn. Jade and Mercedes, arch enemies who used to be best friends, find their roles reversed. The only constant in this upside down scenario seems to be a boy named Clarik who Jade has very strong feelings for in this alternate reality. Following her and Mercedes as they figure out what happened and how to fix things makes for a fun read, but there's yet another twist near the end, one that forces Jade to make a scary and fateful decision. Read the book and find out for yourself.
    • 3/5
      Very enjoyable highschool-theme book with a sci-fi twist that spiced things up!
    • 5/5
      Heh. Goth. I used to be Goth in high school, but I felt quite different about it than Jade, the heroine of this book, did. But I loved the premise of this book (even though I often find myself disappointed with alternate universes). The voices were excellent, and the moral of the story wasn't too heavy-handed. A quick, fun read.
    • 3/5
      From her dying mother’s last words seventeen year old Jade Leigh learned that being different sets you apart from the clones of this world. As a result she is friends with a small group of Goths who are considered freaks by the in-crowd, which includes Mercedes, the popular girl with the Barbie clones as friends. When Jade gets into trouble for the third time in a week, her principal decides that it’s time for an extreme intervention and convinces her father to sign a permission slip for what he thinks is a field trip but is actually a virtual reality program designed to teach Jade a lesson.When Jade wakes up the next morning, things are decidedly different. The whole school has turned Goth and her friends have now become the Barbie clones. To make matters worse they hate her and Jade has become the popular girl. But not only is Jade in the program, Mercedes is too and she has taken Jade’s place as the outcast.With the help of Clarik, a strange new student, Jade and Mercedes struggle to find their way out of the program and back to real life but learn a valuable lesson on the way home.I thought the book was a cute read with a good lesson for teens but I didn’t love it as much as I was expecting to. The writing is good and the characters are typical teens but the virtual reality premise was just a little too weird for me. I wish the switch from Goth to popular girl was accomplished a different way. Maybe a bump on the head a la Wizard of Oz or some magical hocus pocus. I just couldn’t get into it being a program when Mercedes and Clarik were also in there with her.I do recommend the book for teens and young adults but I’d skip it if you’re on the fence about picking this one up.
    • 1/5
      Oh My Goth was oh my god bad. I slammed the book—twice—on the countertop while reading. I ranted to my brother how much I disliked the book. I fumed for a good 10 minutes afterwards. My ‘dogma’ of how MTV books could never go wrong has proven to be blasphemous with this book. When reading the summary I thought ‘hey this sounds pretty good’. When I finished I nearly—gagged—myself. Jade needed a new sense of what it means to be an individual. She needs to understand that wearing clothes that a majority of her peers do not wear and moaning and groaning about how they all suck does not mean to be an individual. She needs to know when to stick up for yourself instead of running over people like a fortified tank half of the time and being trampled like a calf the other half. She condemns people because they all dress alike yet she and friends seem to dress very similar. Jade needs to let go of her past and stop living her life by a code—a sentence—her mother had spoken before her death. A powerful message it was, but the way Jade acts because of it makes her a mindless zombie. This whole book could have acted as a strong message to teens but the delivery made it nothing short aside from being a kindle to a fire.
    • 4/5
      So, Mercedes is The In girl at school, a ‘Barbie doll’, and the worst enemy of Jade, who is The goth chick at school, and an utter freak because of it. Well, since they’re always getting in trouble, the principal decides to teach them a lesson via virtual reality. In this virtual reality, everybody’s goth! OMG, how cool, right? But nobody’s really changed, they’re all still just as shallow and mean except Jade and Mercedes have kind of switched places. Jade is no longer an individual which is what she wanted in the first place, and Mercedes is no longer loved and adored by everyone, which is what she wanted. So they have to learn to be friendly in order to get out of the game and back to the real world.
    • 3/5
      Always being the outcast in Haloway High School, goth girl Jade Leigh was not surprised she got into trouble again and was sent to the principles office. Surprised to see the popular girl, barbie like Mercedes Turner there and finding out that even though they were being punished for different crimes, they were going to be punished together. Being taken to see Dr. John Laroque, being sedated and then hooked up to computers didn’t prepare either of them for the virtual reality that they were about to enter. Punishment was living in a world where things are different than the norm, goth is now the in fashion and the barbie style is the outcast. New kid Clarik Spanger had just arrived and not been labeled yet and so, he wasn’t in the virtual Haloway High either. Having to find a way to work together so that they could get out of this world and back to normal life, Jade and Mercedes tried to put there differences aside, but it would not be easy, they had hated each other for years.While I really like Gena Showalter and her creative story telling, this is one of the few that I have had any issue with. This is about high school students, but as a young adult book I would not recommend it to the younger end of the genre. There was lessons to learn about prejudice and conformity, but the end didn’t hammer that in to hard. Fun and fast paced, but had a difficult time feeling for the characters, all of them have their good and bad points, but they were all a bit to shallow for my tastes. I still like Gena Showalter a lot, with her creativity and story telling abilities.