This was just a bland copy of the Georgia-series
There were so many similarities that it was laughable...and not in the good way
I didn't think it was funny at all, while the Georgia series always cracked me up
Very disappointed :-(

Full review at Dear Book Reader

Dear Book Reader,

So, Tallulah Casey is off to some performing arts program for the summer. Crazy friends await, bodily changes aren’t coming as quickly as Tallulah hopes (and honestly are just over-focused throughout the book), and boys – can’t forget about the boys. Or the owl and the little owlettes. Yes, there is a reason for the owl on the cover. The random little owl.

Tallulah goes through the summer, doing the best that she can with the work that’s been given to her and her friends. The work involves different acting skill, dancing, and putting together an adaptation of Wuthering Heights for the end of summer performance. Tallulah has multiple problems, often related to her gangly pre-teen/teenage body. This point it made more times than it ought to be. There are first with boys from another nearby school (just for boys…Tallulah’s school is just for girls). First dates, first kisses, first…ackward conversations. On top of all the firsts and acting, there’s an owl, whose’s just had owlettes. This owl tends to dive bomb anyone who walks into the barn and is just not a friendly creature. Apparently the owlettes are nice enough to be picked up, out of the nest and touched, though. Isn’t that something we’re always told not to do because then the parents won’t come back? I don’t know much about birds here.

Does Tallulah make it through the summer program?

How do the boys make or break Tallulah?

Does Tallulah’s body ever catch up to the thoughts she has about it?

This book was really just okay. It’s on the juvenile side of the YA genre, which is not the side I typically read from. It had it’s humorous storytelling parts that had me laughing, but there were also major distractions. Constant “so-and-so said”, “he said”, “she said” before whatever was said by whoever in a conversation really annoyed me. I don’t know if that’s something that has stuck out to me in other reads before or if it was just this book. It seriously made me want to just skim the conversations happening.

Although I didn’t totally enjoy this book, it was a good break from some of the heavier books I’ve read lately. ”Withering Tights” is a quick read as well. Which might be a good thing considering how back and forth it was. There were a lot of British words and phrases throughout the book as well, so be ready for that if you choose to read this. Honestly, I hope this review helps you make a choice because it was a pain to write. I guess I still can’t find all the words to describe how much I disliked this book. It takes a lot for me to truly dislike a book. I’m giving the second book in this series a shot before totally throwing it off as a series I won’t continue reading.

Series: Misadventures of Tallulah Casey, #1

Stars: **

Recommendation: No…I honestly can’t recommend this book.

Read On,

Liz

This book was checked out at my awesome public library!

I really have to say that Georgia is a funnier character. Tallulah is her cousin, and she's basically a rip off. Don't get me wrong, I laughed and had fun, but it's basically the same thing. I should have figured. Not to mention, I have yet to read [b:Wuthering Heights|6185|Wuthering Heights|Emily Brontë|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255584435s/6185.jpg|1565818] or [b:Jane Eyre|10210|Jane Eyre|Charlotte Brontë|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1266450134s/10210.jpg|2977639], so I wasn't always sure about the references.

Louise Rennison always manages to capture the awkwardness of teenager-dom in a perfectly outrageous way, so you are reading along going "oh no oh no help this is how it felt to be a teenager" and then you finish the book very glad you are an adult.

Genuine, down-to-earth, and lots of lol-ing.
That's this book series in a nutshell. I've loved the Georgia series with all my heart, and this one did not disappoint.

For a full review on my blog --> http://www.happybookloversblog.com/2014/05/withering-tights.html

Short fun read!
One of many books I absolutely love and enjoy re-reading.

I am a die-hard Georgia Nicholson fan so I waited patiently for this book's US release and began reading it as soon as I could get my hands on it. This new series is sort of a spin off of The Georgia series as it follows her cousin Tallulah as she attends a performing arts summer program. I'm sort of disappointed in this first book because it's so much like the Georgia books just with a different cast of characters. Tallulah and her friends are exactly like Georgia and her friends so there was nothing really new going on to grab my attention. I am going to keep reading this series though because as always, Louise Rennison brings the LOLs. She also has a way of making her characters so lovable that you want to keep reading so you can continue to cheer them on as they navigate the awkwardness of adolescence.

Rereading Louise Rennison's books is like hanging out with an old friend and I love it.

I love love loved the Georgia Nicholson series, but Rennison gave Georgia such a unique voice that I wasn't sure how she would do with a separate character and how well she would be able to separate the two.

I think placing this story and its characters in the same world as her other series was a good idea so that the similarities could be attributed to the fact that the two main characters were related and interacted with each other. I thought that was a smart move. The downside to this though is that in referencing her previous books, it gave me the impression that she is sort of a one-trick pony. Or at least trying to appeal to her old readers and have them stick with her. It wasn't too annoying though...if it had to be done, I suppose she did it in an alright way. It was kind of disappointing in a way though because she hasn't really branched out any, or gone in any different direction. It's just the same-old that would have been ok for another Georgia book but doesn't seem worth the time to start a brand new series for (unless just doing it to ride your fame). It would make sense if she was planning to take this series in a different direction that she couldn't do with Georgia, but that really didn't seem to be the case. Especially since Georgia is still mentioned and the writing style is basically the same.

This book wasn't as good as Georgia Nicholson. It was a more watered down version, which for some people might be more appealing. I didn't care much for the book until about a half or so through when it started to grow on me a little more. The ending came surprisingly fast after I made it over that halfway bump. But by the end I still didn't really care about Tallulah or the story much though really.

I thought Tallulah and Ruby's friendship and the little owl eggs thing was adorable though :)