The Duff
Book description
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is smart, cynical, loyal - and well aware that she's not the hot one in her group of friends. But when high-school jock and all round moron Wesley Rush tells her she's a DUFF - a Designated, Ugly Fat Friend - Bianca does not the see funny…
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Two words: Wesley Rush. I’m a sucker for a bad boy with charisma. And Bianca—my girl!—definitely gives Wesley a run for his money. I love her feistiness. Wesley dubs Bianca the “Designated Ugly Fat Friend” which is a huge no-no, but somehow he and Bianca began a steamy enemies with benefits fling and I lived for it. Naturally, their walls began to come down the closer they got, and there’s a line in the book (I will not spoil it) that took my breath away and made me fall completely in love with Wesley. Skip the movie, read the book!…
From Whitney's list on YA romances with bad boys to swoon over.
My grandmother was notorious for labeling girls as “the pretty one,” “the musical one,” or “the smart one,” etc. It felt like she was saying if you weren’t first in line for beauty at least there were consolation prizes to be had. In The Duff, when the protagonist discovers she’s been dubbed such by a popular boy in school, she’s not going to take it. But her power recovery methods don’t involve remaking herself from an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. Instead, she slowly brings her antagonist around to a different opinion of her. She also exacts her…
From Iris' list on girl power I wish I’d read as a teenager.
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