You Should See Me in a Crown

Great and inspiring book! It was an excellent audio book.

I loved everything about this book.

Liz was such a great character. She has a lighthearted personality, a fun loving and supportive family, and a very accepting friends group.

Mack, the newest girl in school and fellow prom nominee, is hilarious. I loved how quirky and comfortable in her own skin she is. She has the best lines and the banter she has with Liz made me laugh out loud more than a few times.

I'd definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a fast-paced, adorably fluffy, and all around good time of a read! You won't be disappointed!

it was pretty good and it had a good ending. main characters- liz, jordan, and amanda, 317 pages

I listened to the audiobook, and it was excellent. Alaska Jackson’s narration called to me like a long night’s dreamless sleep after months of fitful nightmares. I listened to it everywhere until I emerged from my trance. But then it was over, and I was overwhelmed with a sweet, unconfined joy edged with melancholy as if I were already mourning its loss. I wished, then, that the story could be solid and picked up and held close, so that I could reach for it and trace the words with my fingers whenever I needed. I immediately ordered a physical copy right there and then. You Should See Me in a Crown follows the story of Liz Lighty who wanted nothing but to not feel an ache in her soul where some part of her always felt wanting. Liz hung her hopes on a scholarship to Pennington—her dream school—which she believed would be “the fast track to the rest of [her] life.” But a rejection letter douses Liz’s dream in her chest, and Liz suddenly feels she has lost her own story, fallen out of its pages, and landed in a country from which she couldn’t return. But when her brother convinces her to run for prom queen—with its $10,000 scholarship prize—the idea strikes Liz as sensible in a mad sort of way. Liz—who is accustomed to being quiet, a world unto herself, held tight and secretive, and feels secure in the near invisibility her insignificance in the high school hierarchy bestows upon her—knows this is her only chance, but dreads the exhausting artifice that comes when you put yourself onstage, and ask to be judged. A burning determination glows in Liz, nonetheless. Liz will be her school’s “infamous, subversive, dangerous, queer-as-hell prom queen wannabe” if that’s what it takes to seize her dreams. The playing field might be a steep incline with Liz at the bottom with boulders attached to both her ankles, but she is determined to push and push until something breaks in her favor, for once. That’s the Lighty Way, after all.