Review of "Stardust" by Mimi Strong

Stardust by Mimi Strong
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Food-girl meets Wannabe-Vamp-Guy.

NOTE: If you're low on naughty-bits synonyms, this book offers you classics like "taco shop", "hotdog stand", "cucumber" and "peaches".

Stardust is an light-read with a few good lines, some amazing side-characters, and a seemingly good plot. It continues in the sequel, ending on a cliffhanger.

We meet Peaches Monroe, a sassy, smart-but-boring, plus-sized girl. In an attempt to cover up an air vent leading to a bakery, she stands on a stool when super-famous Actor Dalton--who plays a vampire on TV--stumbles into a bookstore, knocking her down so she literally falls into his arms.

After that, the glorious Dalton invites himself to accompany Peaches to her cousin's wedding.

Over the course of the next 200+ pages, we find out that Dalton Deangelo is perfect . He has a perfect body, perfect face, perfect hands, his ears are perfect, his lips, perfect, his touch is perfect. Everything is perfect.

All while Peaches is boring, sassy, low on self-esteem--but confident--she is book-smart, but boy-dumb. And apparently her exposure to super-star Dalton Deangelo makes her hooha tingle with excitement for any action.

And so forth, every single character trait she has, she has the exact opposite whenever she needs it.

Example: She is book-smart, often telling how high grades, and how many books she's read. Now, I'm no librarian myself, but whenever I read books, I often find myself comparing them to my real life. If she's so book-smart, then even though she's boy-dumb, she should be able to recognize a cheesy line when delivered. Of course, that's just me.

Another example is her low confidence. She's obviously gorgeous--or in any case do-able--seeming how every guy wants a piece of her. And she knows this, flirts back and show off her assets, but two pages later she's in her closet, crying because she can't fit her jeans, and she's so fat, ugly and disgusting, for then to change back to frisky, sexy Peaches who don't mind sexing it up at all.

Also, Peaches really loves food. And not just in a food-critic fashion, but in a let-me-compare-everything-especially-genitalia-with-fast-food-names way. I mean, I get it, she's on a diet--it sucks.

Mimi Strong has an engaging voice, and the book is for the most part okay. There a few cutesy moments and hilarious lines. But it's rarely the times that are intended to be fun(the fun names for sex, the side notes, the excuses in parenthesis or the forced flirtation)

My most favorite part of the book was the character Adrian Storm. Somehow, as annoyed as I was for Peaches flirting with him, gushing over how hot he was(especially since she was with Dalton) then I didn't really mind--they were that natural.

Peaches friendship with her roommate is good too--except when Peaches again can't decide her character traits and acts either melodramatic, or bitchy.

I really can't stress the fact how confused Peaches made me. I wanted to like her so badly, but then she ends up turning me completely off from her character with just a sentence.

Dalton... He has potential, but I just thought his behavior was too rehearsed, cheesy or erratic. Half of the time he annoyed me more than else.

All in all. An Okay book. I wouldn't say it blew my mind. It had some entertaining moments, but didn't make me roll around laughing. I've read better, but also far worse books. Not bad for a weekend read if nothing else is pulling at you.

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