l8r, g8r (Internet Girls, #3) by Lauren Myracle

l8r, g8r (Internet Girls, #3) Reviews

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  jackie

  i read this as a kid and rereading it now has made me realize how i should not have been reading this 😭 nevertheless, now that i’m actually in the age group, this was a fun fast read that’s not necessarily relatable to my hs life but fun to read!!
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  Melissa

  Well, I got this book for my daughter, along with the two previous books, and having read this last one I am now a little sorry I did. On the one hand, it is definitely an honest look at high school girls, friendships, and relationships. On the other hand, high school is not always 'appropriate,' which we all should remember from being there. The IM format is certainly an interesting gimmick, and I do appreciate how the author managed to maintain that format believably throughout.
  
  My biggest complaint is that these girls, however smart or independent they might appear, are needlessly shallow and spoiled. Not one of them has a job. Not one of them is the least bit concerned about how to pay for college (except for how to blackmail their parents into doing it). Not one of them has any appreciation for the potential dangers of the games they are playing. In other words, I repeat, it is JUST like high school. And who really wants to relive that?
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  michelle

  these books are funny to think about because so much serious shit happens that they just sweep under the rug in a way that is very true to teenhood but also strange to think about an adult writing (this logic follows with some of the more offensive jokes as well, most of which are followed up with some sort of clumsy chastising)
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  Erica Renee

  2.5
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  Lucy⋆౨ৎ˚

  ୨୧Imagine being stuck in the middle of nowhere with these books. And then discovering what trash they are. Welcome to my life. I am back to civilization now and can express my hate. XOXO-Lucy୨୧
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  emerald

  “There's something strange about this big pink bunny...”
  
  Overall Thoughts
  

  This was a super fun, easy and cute series. Nothing intense of course, there's not much to actually review. But if you're looking for something light and funny, this series is great. The girls are hilarious and I found myself getting actually invested in their story lines and wondering what was going to happen in their lives next.

  
  
  
  - Until Next Time,
  Emerald BookWorm
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  Nate D

  That's right, the last book I read in 2018 was this YA number told entirely through instant messages. I I think I saw Lauren Myracle's trilogy in this format turn up on a list of experimental fiction since 2000, so this caught my eye in the Strand dollar racks and fair enough, she really sticks to her constraint and makes it work reasonably well for her narrative. She captures the rhythm of this sort of communication pretty well (even if part of that is a decent amount of noise and frivolity in the mix), and seems less prone to inventing web lingo then I'm told she was in the first two volumes (or maybe I'm just too out of touch to tell OR she took some liberties with fixing those things for the 2014 revised edition.) BUT seriously bonus points for evidently getting banned in a number of school systems for allowing that perfectly responsible teens might be having sex in high school and that it wasn't a big deal. Actually, ideologically, there's not much I could really fault here in general in how she addresses real concerns of teen life, when those come up. Which I still find a relatable enough subject apparently.
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  harriyanna hasanati hook

  the 3 main girls are literally assholes to each other and it's HILARIOUS to read.
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  Michelle

  3.5⭐️
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  Taylor

  hell yeah
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  Lisa Horner

  DNF. This book turned out to be way to teenager-ish for me. Not necessarily terrible but I have better books to spend my time on. I was intrigued by the texting format of storytelling, but I think I might have liked it better in a narrative format.
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  Allison, Kawalec.

  I choose to read this book because i already read the other two books and i liked them .
  this book is realistic fiction.
  it takes place in gorgia,
  This book is there final year in high school (seniorrrssss:)
  This is the year the three girls are looking forward to but also dreading! they are looking forward to it beacause they are graduating and going to college but dreading it because they will be seperated.
  Madie; wants to go to ucla and she gets excepted but once she gets excepted to The state of gorgia she has trouble deciding because shes scared of change and also because she is getting close to her ex boy friend ian again and the begin to date again and she doesnt want to break his heart again. but she decides to follow her dream and goes mails in her axceptance letter!
  Angela; Is most definetly going to Gorgia but is defistated that her friends will not be following her.
  Zoe; wants to go to kenyon (which has always been her dream school and then she will also be closer to her boyfriend dougs school) but her parents want her to go to princeston and once she gets axcepted to prinston after sabitoshing her application shes shocked and doesnt no what shes guna do and is even more devistated that she got into kenyon but her parents told her if she goes to kenyon thy wont pay for her tution so she has a plan and she applys to gorgia and gets excepted and is excepted for a scholorship and once her parents hered that news they were more then willing to pay for her tution at kenyon cus they felt gorgia wasnt good enough for her .
  Other than college the girls are going through major drama with jana . but like always it eventualy fades and in the end the girls realize that their friend ship is what makes them win because jana doesnt have any real friends.
  
  
  i really enjoyed this book i thought it was a good ending and im glad i read this series i enjoyed it alot
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  Kharli Farquharson

  
  On a regular day In English class when one of my classmates showed me the book L8r, g8r by Lauren Myracle. I read a few pages and realized that maybe this is a good book. One thing that really stood out had to be the layout of the book. I'm unsure if the book title stands out that much, but the book is laid out as text messages, which in my opinion is a very creative way to lay out a book. I don't really think that there was any part of the book that really "didn't impress" me, I think that every part of this book really caught my attention and every word helped me feel like I was is this group conversation with the characters. I think that the book had a very good theme. Which was that rumors are just sad ways to ruin good friendships, I also learned that when things like that happens you have to fight for your friendship and the recognize the importance of your friendship. For example "zoegirl: i'm so proud of u, Maddie!" Just some of the words of these friends said to each other during their good times. Overall the significance of the book to our lives is that friendship should be stronger than the rumors that go around about you or others."I'm single I don't need a guy I love being on my own with you guys" this quotes from the book shows how the character in this book really cherishes her friendships that she's even putting back the "most important thing for most girls in high school and that is to have a boyfriend, she is focusing more on her relationships with the people that matter to her the most.
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  Jessica

  I definitely thought I had read this book before, but now I'm not so sure. I definitely read the first two in this series, back when they were new ten years (omg) ago and I was actually the intended audience! The version I read has been updated recently (2014): they are now texting not IMing, music and pop culture references have been updated, and the way events occur is different since they can now communicate instantaneously instead of talking when they get back to a computer.
  
  Anyway, in this third book in Lauren Myracle's Internet Girls series, best friends Angela, Maddie, and Zoe are in their senior year of high school. They go through everything a normal HS senior does, from preparing for Prom to picking colleges and waiting for admission letters to having boyfriend troubles or having sex for the first time. There is some heavy content; underage drinking, premarital sex (although carefully considered), and some light language. For all the flack these books get there really isn't that much content contained on the page, just discussion of it after the fact - and it's all treated very seriously. The format makes this a very easy and quick read that doesn't feel like work - excellent for hi-lo readers. I would not hesitate to give this book to any high schooler and even some older middle schoolers - this is real life and although the book is very light hearted the potentially problematic situations are not taken lightly.
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  katyjanereads

  1. I loved this book. Mainly because it was like reading someone's diary. It was getting an inside glimpse at someone's private world.
  2. I got to thinking about the format the author used and to a reader it would seem easy to write a book in IM, but the author has to establish characters, setting, conflict, resolution, etc all within the confines of the IM conversation and she nails it. She made it seamless. She made it believable.
  3. I laughed out loud several times: the announcement of Jana being a liar and when Jana sent Maddie's information to Craiglist. Mainly I laughed when Maddie pointed out that Jana spelled "criteria" wrong. And I also loved the Zoe scene when she is stuck is Jana's car.
  4. I read this book in September because it is banned books month. This book has been challenged for several years in a row for the following reasons: offensive language, unsuited for age group, sexually explicit, drugs, nudity. Banning books never makes sense to me, but there are worse books in YA lit that fit the same categories. And banning books makes readers want to read them even more. Go ahead, make that book more popular.
  5. And then I watched the first episode of big bunny.
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  ♥MRS.

  I choosed this book because i thought i would of like it and it would be a great book for me to read and it looked like a teen book. I also picked it because last year i read the 1st two books from Lauren Myracle and they where great and i thought this book would be too.
  
  It was Non-fiction.
  
  The setting whats like all over the place it always took place in the computer IM.
  THey were always in school or at each others place.
  
  The main character are ZOE MADDiE and ANGELAS.
  Zoe and Angelas are the wilded ones the ones with thier boyfgriends and Maddie is the good girl. They are the bestfriends. THey tell everything to each other and they go though alot in there life and they have to face it and they do but they always stay together.
  
  In this book no was not alot of problems. Only that one of the bestfriends loves some guy that buys her a car and she thinks she's in love but thats not love thats just a thanks.
  
  THey solve problems by she telling the guy the true and being truful.
  
  THis book was okay but not what i though it would trun out to be but it was okay;)_
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  Brittany Durrant

  “L8r G8r” is the fourth book in the “Ttyl” series. This book is about three best friends who try to make the best of their senior year. Throughout this book they face problems like rumors, colleges, and boyfriend troubles. They also worry about staying best friends even when they are all going to different colleges. Even though the book is written in I.M. I thought it was a very touching story. I think this book would be great for teenagers because many of them go through boy troubles, rumors, and eventually college.
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  Amy

  This book fulfills every negative stereotype about teenage females and females in general. How I had to struggle to finish this! Females are portrayed as gossipy cliques that basically have nothing else going on for them besides talking about thier boyfriends and getting involved in mentally unstable Dynasty(reference to the 1980s tv show)type catfights with the big bad mega bitch of the grade. Please, can't we move beyond this.
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  Stephanie Tollis

  This book was much better than the rest in the series. It was dramatic, it was happy, it was sad, it was a little surprising, and it was fun and interesting to read all throughout. I was impressed by the way it was written and happy with the conclusion to the series, as the winsome threesome goes off to college!
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  Nicole C.

  Why are these books popular?
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  Anna

  This was a really cute ending to the girls’ high school years. I don’t have much to say other than it made me feel really nostalgic and it was a wonderful ending to their high school lives.
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  M.A. Fernández

  Liked that the story got back on track for me.
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  Nikki Ruffino-Smith

  We have made it to senior year with our trio.
  
  This book I remembered the least out of the trio of them. Reading through them again gave me all of the nostalgic feels. I still love how the writing is totally told in instant message format.
  
  Angela, Maddie, and Zoe are still the best of friends in this book. Of course they deal with their fair share of drama and issues. As any high school friend group would expect to deal with. Jana who is the antagonist in this series is in full force in this book. Our trio and her seem to be in a back and forth of "pranking" one another. But the levels that they all go in doing so will make you go- "oh wow, they really went there and did that."
  
  All of our girls: are deciding what college they want to attend, we deal with one of our girls having sex for the first time, we see a relationship end with one of our girls and her boyfriend, we watch them all attend prom and the reality of over drinking for one happens, and so much more on brand things happen to our girls.
  
  As I said in my review for
  ttyl and
  ttfn these books are continually banned and challenged. I think these books cover very real topics on stuff that happens with actual teenagers in their lives. I was of course doing so much worse at their age in my real life. These books should always be accessible for those that want to read them. Regardless of their age, because in the end they aren't even that bad what so ever. I have never read
  yolo and am excited to dip into that one soon.
  
  "mad maddie: no, and i think it’s obnoxious that they do. organized religion gives me the heebie-jeebies."