All of the Tanberry sisters are smug, irritating, stupid, one dimensional characters, but my least favourite has always been Honey. Therefore it was an absolute joy to reread the book dedicated to Honey's story.

HONEY

Honey is an incredibly irritating fifteen year old who goes to live with her dad in Australia because she is a self professed "rebel." Like Scarlett before, she's more of a wannabe rebel than anything else, and it's so fucking irritating to read about a character who brands themselves a "convict girl." There are strict rules at her new school but wouldn't ya know it, she wears makeup and adjusts the uniform anyway, because she is a Rebel™.

She was expelled from her last school because she got this kid who was was really good at computers, a fact pushed tons of times, to hack into the school system and change her grades and reports.

While in Australia, Honey is hacked on "Spiderweb", and somebody posts private pictures, etc - but ooh, who could it be 🤔 I'm absolutely stumped as to who could be doing this what an intriguing mystery for us all to ponder.

She's also extremely talented at art, another fact shoved in our faces. The teacher at her new school positively gushes over her, and she describes her own self portrait in sickening detail, who looks at a picture of themselves like "my wide blue eyes hold all the pain in the world."

Honey is still overdramatic about her boyfriend Shay now dating her stepsister Cherry - she completely blames Cherry for some stupid reason, and holds a grudge against her for the entire book.

Honey is such a dumb bitch, like for fuck's sake. Not only does she not realise who the obvious hacker is, she doesn't change her password, doesn't report it, and makes no effort to either delete her account or post that she's been hacked and everyone should ignore the weird posts.

The hacker has posted tons of her private pictures, but for some reason she decides it's a GREAT idea to start keeping a private journal on Spiderweb.

Instead of trying to solve the problem of the cyberbullying, she just throws her iphone and laptop into a swimming pool, like a gobshite. That solves nothing, just ruins your expensive electronics, way to go you fucking numpty.

CRINGE WRITING

Somebody should give Cathy a lesson on how to write teenagers, it's actually embarrassing at this point. All the hip young kids use "Spiderweb" which is a social media, the logistics of which don't make much sense because it seems like a confusing mix between Facebook and Twitter.

They also all have such cringe usernames on it, like not saying I'm at all good at usernames but when it's literally "Millz4eva" and "Cherryblossomgirl" I like to judge.

Meanwhile teenagers are going around saying things are "fab" and keep calling presents "prezzies" which IS REALLY GETTING ON MY NERVES BECAUSE THIS HAPPENS IN EVERY FUCKING CC BOOK.

HONEY'S FRIENDS

While in Australia, she meets these two girls Tara and Bennie, both of whom are dull as ditchwater and have absolutely no personality. They're more innocent than Honey, so she teaches them to wear makeup and do their hair etc, and who actually fucking cares, they have literally no impact on the story.

THE HOT BOY™

YOU KNEW THIS WAS COMING RIGHT?

The hot boy is this dude called Ash who works in a cafe at the beach. He has absolutely no personality and there is no chemistry at all, but they get together anyway and then Honey goes back to England omg sadness :(

This book is terrible, but what did you expect lmao I'll give it -50/5