Megan C. Getting Revenge on Luaran Wood.

The realistic fiction book I read over the summer called Getting Revenge on Luaran Wood by Eileen Cook, really held my interest because it is about teenage girls. The situation that takes place in this story is what many girls would be familiar with the drama that goes on and could relate to then feelings of the main character Helen or Claire. I personally could relate to the heart sinking feeling when your BFF or now EX-BFF back stabs you. That is why I highly recommend this to every teenage girl to either help them with their struggles with girls or prevent girls from ruining their relationships.

The main characters in this book are Helen/Claire and Luaran Wood. Theses characters took a great part of this book and had differences which made each there stand out even more. For example, Luaran Wood is considered a mean/popular girl of the high school, and is very narcissistic and most of all… selfish. See Helen was the complete opposite until she let her grudges get the best of her. By Eileen Cook putting Luaran in the book she used foiled characters.
A few of the conflicts both external and internal are that Helen has to keep her cover and not let her secret identity be revealed. Helen’s main internal conflict involves her feelings towards her new friend and Luaran. Her conflict is whether or not she should be in a relationship because she was afraid it would get in the way of her plan to get revenge.
In the book there is a main lesson Cook tries to send out towards the reader by showing that holding grudges, always lead to no good. Cook made the book like a dairy so you could connect to Helen’s feelings. By Cook doing so, it much easier comprehend what is going on inside Helen’s head.

I would tell teenage girl readers to give this book a chance because I truly enjoyed reading this book, enough for me to finish it in two days! Teenage girls should use this book as a guideline of how to not handle drama.