{"id":2659,"date":"2007-01-24T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:04","slug":"no-plain-jane-good-girls-to-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2659","title":{"rendered":"No Plain Jane: Good Girls to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Jarvis is kind of &#8230; prickly. She&#8217;s small and short, whip-smart and cranky about the slow-boat life she leads at St. Teresa&#8217;s Preparatory School for Girls in Providence, RI. Because she&#8217;s got that Senior-itis bug (and she&#8217;s recovering from a broken heart), Jane&#8217;s gotten a reputation with her teachers for being kind of &#8230;oppositional (That &#8220;crypto-fascist&#8221;comment to one of the Fathers who teaches religion? Um&#8230; maybe a mistake?). But she&#8217;s got a soft spot for <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.bestwebbuys.com\/muze\/books\/03\/1595140603.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>her best friend, Allison Concord, who is a crazy, funny person who sometimes freaks out a bit and comes on too strong. Jane would do anything to protect Ally, and she does, even flagrantly breaking a silly school rule to get people to stop staring at Ally the day she throws up all over a freshman girl. Jane is always in Ally&#8217;s corner, until one day it seems that Ally doesn&#8217;t need her. She&#8217;s got everything &#8212; good posture, good hair, good clothes and a new friend in her &#8220;Little;&#8221; the freshman who has chosen her to be her Big &#8212; her Senior buddy. Why does she need prickly, cranky Jane  &#8211; who didn&#8217;t even score her own Little &#8212; anymore?<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; it&#8217;s because she&#8217;s sold her soul. To this girl at school&#8230; who is&#8230; um&#8230; an agent of evil. Her Little, Lanalee? Is kind of &#8230; er, the devil.<br \/>Ally needs Jane&#8217;s help like never before.<\/p>\n<p>With stalking freshman boys from St. Sebastian&#8217;s, freak hailstorms, creaky, cranky nuns, completely clueless priests and self-igniting history books <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&amp;isbn=978-1595140609\" target=\"_blank\">Devilish<\/a> is way creepier that I expected, but hilarious as well in that familiar, well-crafted, snarky Maureen Johnson style. A quick read &#8211; but you&#8217;ll want to leave the lights on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Jarvis is kind of &#8230; prickly. She&#8217;s small and short, whip-smart and cranky about the slow-boat life she leads at St. Teresa&#8217;s Preparatory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,43,44,5],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-girls-fiction","tag-humor","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}