Ratings9
Average rating3.1
I really wanted to like this. I love the trope–lottery winner–but halfway through I couldn't take any more. We begin with a girl so desperate to get a scholarship that all she does is study, thus setting up her social outcast status. She spouts random trivia and is clearly a bright young woman, but she wins the lottery and becomes TSTL. I get that lottery winners make bad choices, but I just can't reconcile Maddie's actions after winning with the girl I met at the beginning of the story. Maybe that was Ms. West's point, but I just didn't buy it–so much that I couldn't get past it. So this is DNF for me.
That said, loved the audiobook narrator. It's just the story that didn't work for me.