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Little Darlings by Jacqueline Wilson – review

Scoutingforbooks: 'What I thought was a great book, is now just another cliched Jacqueline Wilson storyline'
  
  


Sunset is the daughter of the loved rockstar Danny Kilman and beautiful ex-model, candyfloss-haired Suzy Kilman who is on the verge of a breakdown. Ever felt like you just do not fit into your life? Sunset does. She doesn't look like that picture perfect pretty girl you would expect a rock-star's daughter to look like. Nor does she want to – she's not like her mum or her sister, or even her father. She does not lust for fame. When she finds her sister who leads a different life will she be able to escape from the life of stardom?

Her sister, Destiny, is named after one of her fathers famous songs – but she still hasn't met him yet. She lives a sad life with her mother – a diehard Danny Kilman fan – but when she gets the chance to show off her amazing, natural singing voice at her school talent competition, will she be able to show her whole school how good she can sing? Will she win? And when she finds her sister, will she be able to escape her monotonous lifestyle?

What I thought was a great story is now just another cliched Jacqueline Wilson storyline: two white girls, one rich, one poor, both living a 'terrible' life that neither of them can stand nor bare any longer.

I must say, that I do not like this book per say but haven't got gradually bored with it after reading it time and time again. It's good that the book says something about the struggle of being poor, and not living the life that you wish you could live but can't. But it is also a point that is continued, every single time, in the same situation in every one of her books and it quickly becomes increasingly agitating and or irritating, and makes you go off of Jacqueline Wilson books.

This book was good when I first set my eyes on it. It was one of my favourite books in fact: but after reading many Wilson books you become very annoyed at the fact that her books are very alike, and the plots are based around the same idea that everything will be alright in the end, and the poor girl is fine, the rich girl is fine, everyone is fine. That is why I am giving this book a 5/10 for the fact that it does not deserve any more than that.

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