“Three city girls. Two country girls. One absurdly amazing summer.
Priscilla, Bella, and Lacy Prichardson, daughters of the richest man on Earth, cannot wait for their exclusive summer vacation—hopefully in the Bahamas. Or Paris. Or Santorini. Not a random farm in the middle of nowhere.
Country girls Skylar and Cassidy have no time for fuss and feathers while helping their grandmother run the family farm, especially not for three walking fashion magazines who think that milk comes from a tree and horses are magical.
Forced to partner with peasants, the Prichardsons take to farm work as well as pigs fly (not at all), spurring hilarious hijinks involving bucking broncos, tractor driving, and horseback riding.
Deprived of all luxury life essentials, will the triplets embrace their new reality (face-first where Lacy’s concerned), or hug their high heels closer?”
Series: Book #1 in the “Country Girls vs. City Girls” duology.
Spiritual Content- Going to a church for a funeral; Mentions of praying (but not towards Who); A couple mentions of churches & church going; A couple mentions of a preacher & sermon at a funeral; A couple mentions of hymns sung at a funeral; A mention of God; A mention of the Bible; A mention of the Fruit of the Spirit; A mention of being blessed;
*Note: A grandmother exclaims “Heavens to Betsy!” and different variations of it a handful of times; ‘where in heaven’s name’ is also exclaimed once; One of the triplets rejoices with yelling “Hallelujah” about being able to tan; A tombstone says that a deceased person was “stolen from our earthly sphere by some mysterious power”; Bella says that she hopes the “fates” never bless someone with a sale; A few mentions of the girls imitating theirs idol (an older sister or artist); A few mentions of a store called “Bikini Heaven”; A few mentions of Zodiac signs; A few mentions of statues of Cupid; A couple mentions of eyes having devilish gleams & faces having evil glows (when pranking someone else); A couple mentions of girls looking like goddesses; A mention of Bella thinking Heaven has “angels, clouds, and unlimited shopping malls”; A mention of the triplets being used to people worshiping the ground they walk on; A mention of a “heavenly” cheese; A mention of an evil witch and spells in a book; A mention of having a sixth sense.
Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘bah’, a ‘gosh’, a ‘holy hay bales’, a ‘holy moly’, a ‘shucks’, a ‘suck it up’, two ‘holy cow’s, three forms of ‘dumb’, four ‘jeez/geez’s, four forms of ‘idiot’, four forms of ‘suck’, five ‘stupid’s, eight ‘OMG’s, eight forms of ‘oh my gosh’, eight ‘shut up’s, and nine ‘duh’s; Many other phrases (such as ‘what in the green grasslands’, ‘miniskirts and Michelin stars’, ‘jam preserve us’, ‘for the love of all things good and Gucci’, ‘freaky foundation’, ‘flapjacks!’, ‘thank Gucci’, ‘oh my gummy bears’, and many other varieties) are said and exclaimed; Other name calling such as ‘brats’, ‘moronic’, ‘dum-dum’, ‘dolt’, ‘donut-brain’, ‘ding-dong’, and ‘imbecile’ are also said; Lots of eye rolling & sarcasm; Fighting, Being punched, Injuries, & blood/Bleeding (up to semi-detailed); Seeing a death (of a parent due to an accident, barely-above-not-detailed); One of the twins punches one of the triplets due to the girl’s mean words about her grandmother and all the sisters get involved in the fight (up to semi-detailed); The triplets often partake in sister bickering and snapping at each other, name calling, throwing items at each other, & grabbing items from one another; The twins play a prank on the triplets (that ends up dying the triplets’ hair) so the triplets play a prank back on them (*Spoilers* which involves letting all the animals at the farm loose; All the animals are recovered; After a physical fight, both sister groups apologize to each other under orders from the twins’ grandmother *End of Spoilers*); One of the triplets kicks a chick, which hurts it and Skylar tells her to never hit an animal; Mentions of deaths from accidents & grief (from a husband for his late wife); Mentions of injuries, pain, passing out, & blood/bleeding (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of threats & blackmail (between the sisters/all five girls); Mentions of gossip & rumors; Mentions of throwing up & vomit; Mentions of manure; A few mentions of hatred; A couple mentions of stealing; A couple mentions of lies, lying, & liars; A couple mentions of jealousy; A couple mentions of animals (dogs and horses) that have passed away;
*Note: Lacy has moments of panic attacks & hyperventilating at distressing news (but can snap out of it when yelled at) while her sisters pass out; The triplets refer to their mother by her first name; The triplets wear lots of makeup and place major importance on it & being on their phones and social media sites (Priscilla notes once that she would “rather die” than go without makeup; *Spoilers* Towards the end, the triplets start wearing less makeup when working on the farm *End of Spoilers*); Many, many mentions of designer brands and the triplets spending a lot of money on designer items (Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo, Harry Winston, Dior, Valentino, Versace, Cartier, Chanel, Prada, Tim Ford, YSL, Michael Kors, Charlotte Tilbury, Marc Jacobs, Montblanc, Aquazzura, Armani, Fendi, Oscar de la Renta, Lululemon, Swarovski, Rolex, Dolce & Gabbana, Neutrogena, Bulgari, Burberry, Hermès, Calvin Klein, Saint Laurent, & Alexander McQueen); Many mentions of makeup, applying makeup, and large collections of makeup (including eight-year-olds wearing makeup); Mentions of books, authors, & fictional characters and places (which references to Harry Potter, Jane Austen’s books, Frankenstein, Shakespeare, ‘In Search of Lost Time’ by Marcel Proust, ‘Looking for Alaska’by John Green, Anne of Green Gables, Dr. Seuss, & Sherlock Holmes); Mentions of social media sites & apps (Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Netflix, & Pinterest); Mentions of brand names (Barbie, Dum-Dums, Dyson, Stanley Cups, Webster dictionaries, Mad Libs, LEGO Friends, & Boeing); Mentions of artists (Vermeer, Van Gogh, Monet, & Edgar Degas); Mentions of panic attacks, hyperventilating, & passing out; A few mentions of magazines (Vogue, Vanity Fair, & Harper’s Bazaar); A couple mentions of Starbucks; A mention of the Met Gala; A mention of some people saying humans are animals.
Sexual Content- The triplets comment about cute boys, wanting a new boyfriend, and some of them having two hundred boyfriends total or twenty boyfriends at once; One of the twins asks her sister if “looking pretty [like the triplets] is the way to attract attention and success” because the triplets have all had many boyfriends, but her sister says it doesn’t matter what you wear but how you present yourself (Cassidy still wonders about this and would love to catch someone’s eye just once, so she asks the triplets for help; Bella says that almost anyone can be pretty with enough makeup and a cute outfit, which confuses Cassidy as she’s been taught that beauty come from within, but decides to trust the triplet’s opinion because they are some of the most gorgeous people she knows; Bella tells Cassidy again that true beauty comes from what you wear); Bella comments that “romance is a pursuit for those not striving for higher ideals and a plague upon our society” but says she doesn’t really believe that when asked; Two ‘hot’s when referring to boys; Mentions of cute/hot boys, boyfriends/girlfriends, dates, dating, break-ups, & attraction; Mentions of boys staring at the triplets and trying to flirt with them; Mentions of blushes; A mention of one of the girls being “starved of proper male company” and reading romance novels; A mention of YA book being very “amorous”;
*Note: The triplets dress in “skimpy” tops and “inappropriately short shorts” and are told to put on something less revealing (so they pull on skin-tight cropped t-shirts instead, but the twins’ grandmother decides not to comment on those and pick her battles instead); One of the triplets wears a “minuscule miniskirt” and top that was close to exposing an “unmentionable area”; A few other scenes of the triplets wearing skimpy and short clothing, outfits that hug their shapes/curves, & bikinis (One triplet plans to wear a skimpy bikini, but a sister tells her that it’s “not even legal” to wear in public); Cassidy tries on a dress of the triplet’s that the girls say will “flaunt [her] assets” due to the V-neck and show off her legs, but Cassidy is uncomfortable in it (though she still wears the dress to the event and attracts both attention from the boys and disapproving stares from some conservative adults; She has to watch her neckline from slipping any lower; *Spoiler* Skylar brought more casual dresses for her sister and the triplets to change into just in case, so then the others change during the event and are more comfortable *End of Spoilers*); The triplets comment often about calories, counting calories, different diets, avoiding sugar due to possible weight gain, and maintaining their weight/figures while also avoiding carbs and eating very little to keep their “size negative two”; The triplets avoid working out to keep from gaining muscle mass; One of the triplets comments “A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips!” when offered a carb-heavy meal; *Spoilers* As the book continues (past half-way through) and they start to work hard on the farm, they start to eat more food (including carbs) and start to gain muscles; When visited by their rich friends, the triplets are told about those girls eating five hundred calories or less, their “cheat” days on their diets (by adding an extra almond to a meal), and only eating a single blueberry when feeling faint; One of the girls tells Cassidy she looks like she needs to be on a diet, which Cassidy is shocked by and says she’s a size six; After these girls leave, Priscilla apologizes to the twins for how she acted when she first arrived on the farm and all five girls apologize for something and ask for forgiveness *End of Spoilers*; Mentions of the triplets packing and wearing skimpy outfits; Mentions of bikinis; Mentions of acne/pimples & wrinkles (and the triplets being concerned about both and avoiding them); A few mentions of girls (including the triplets) having hallucinations due to a lack of food for days; A mention of one of the triplets practicing “lucratively suggestive poses” in the mirror; A mention of B.O.
-Priscilla Prichardson, age 14
-Bella Prichardson, age 14
-Lacy Prichardson, age 14
-Skylar Spencer
-Cassidy Spencer
P.O.V. switches between them
381 pages
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My personal Rating-
When I first heard of this book, it was the cover that attracted me to the story—I mean, look how cute the cover is! It’s adorable and fits the book very well. I was a little nervous about having five main characters and while it took me about fifty pages to get the triplets’ names right and their personalities, I was able to keep them all straight by the end. I do want to note that I was a little taken aback by a death of a parent that happened in a rather silly manner and the girls being unaffected by it in the first chapter of the book.
I think there were some pros and cons for me, personally, about this book, but I do think other readers would enjoy it more.
Positive- It was well written with a lot of descriptive vocabulary used, which was great!
Con (for me)- I found the triplets to be really over-the-top to the point of being like a Disney Channel character—think like London Tipton on steroids…but three of her. They have eighty closets, eat with actual gold spoons, and easily spend a million dollars on a shopping spree. There were a ton of designer name name-dropping throughout the almost 400-pages which got to be a bit much for my tastes.
Both- I didn’t love the triplets in general, but I did grow to like the youngest, Lacy, as she started to become more open to farm life. Priscilla was really mean to her sisters at times and I found myself frustrated by her and her comments. Thankfully, there’s some decent character development and lessons learned, so I was glad to see the changes in both the triplets and the twins towards each other and the other sister group’s interests. I wish it had come sooner because some of the triplet’s spoiled attitudes and crazy spending had me flabbergasted and it took me about halfway through the book to get into the story.
I was expecting at least a bit more faith content in this book, so I was disappointed by the lack of it in this story. Hopefully book two in the duology will have more of it and also the triplets becoming a little more down-to-earth with the changes that will be happening in their lives.
I think I probably would have enjoyed this book a bit more when I was younger, perhaps around ages 12/13. Our main characters were a little too dramatic for my reading tastes now, but some readers may be okay with that. Some families may not care for all the brand name-dropping or the comments about diets and counting carbs even though it’s played up and boarder-lines on ridiculous and impossible as times, so I think this book may only work for those who can understand the over-the-top elements to this story and be entertained by it.
See y’all on Friday with a new review!
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
*I received this book for free from the Author for this honest review.
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