This lack of character connection is helped somewhat by the fact that Stampler absolutely nails Gabby’s voice. This is intentional in the case of most of Gabby’s schoolmates, as well as with her mother, but a lack of any other sympathetic characters makes it hard to connect with what’s happening on the page. While Gabby’s fairly well-developed, the other characters in Gabby’s world largely fall into stereotypes. It’s a shame, though, because Stampler’s book is ultimately pretty rewarding.īecause the novel’s focus is satirical in nature, readers don’t get very close to many of the characters. The novel’s unfailingly dry, sarcastic tone helps propel the story, but readers who don’t pick up on it or can’t get past the novel’s ruthless portrait of life in the Three B’s are going to struggle with this one. Now Gabby must try to pull together the pieces of what happened that night and reconcile the fact that Billy isn’t visiting her in her hospital room, and face the fact that things might be forever altered.Īnne Redisch Stampler’s debut novel is an acerbic take on the rich and super-wealthy who live in and around Beverly Hills. Things were going well until the night she woke up on the ground next to his totaled BMW, keys in her hand, and not a memory of how she got there. With Billy, Gabby almost felt like the flawless girl she worked so hard to pretend to be. After Gabby’s mother paid a lot of money to make her over, Gabby went from an average girl who flew under the radar to a popular, blonder, better version of herself, she caught the eye of the school’s most wanted (in more ways than one) boy: Billy Nash.
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