I liked this book, in fact I really enjoyed it. This is your typical teenage read and I definitely feel that if I were a teenager reading this, I probably would have liked it even more. It reminded me of when I read the Confessions series by Louise Rennison. It had a fairly light-hearted and carefree feel to it but at the same time dealt with some much deeper issues such as self-image.

I think at some point in our lives we have all felt that we are the DUFF but as this book so cleverly points out - there is nothing wrong with that. You can only be the DUFF if you allow yourself to be and I liked that message in the book. I kind of wish we had seen a bit more of this explored towards the end.

I still can't decide if I like the main character or not. Bianca is a cynical and extremely sarcastic character and while I have no problem with these qualities (I am a very sarcastic person myself), I just felt that she made some incredibly questionable and silly choices. I did, however, really like some of the other characters such as Jessica and Wesley.

There is a LOT of love and romance in this book (although, of course, that is to be expected given the nature of the story!) and at times I felt it was a little too much. However, that's just personal choice. What I will point out is that there are a lot of quite descriptive sex scenes in this book, something which I certainly wasn't expecting. I was just surprised to find some of the descriptions in a young adult book.

I actually read this book as my sister told me the film is hilarious and I wanted to read the book first. I'm looking forward to watching the movie as I think it's the kind of film that will have a Mean Girls feel to it and I think I'll probably enjoy it a bit more than the book! Overall, this is a good read as long as you aren't expecting too much from it.