From the opening scenes to the closing lines, Get Ready for War is a study of cliches and stereotypes the likes of which I don't believe I have ever seen before in one book! I was so sadly disappointed with the writing and the characters. But by far the worst thing to me was all the negative African American stereotypes this book offered up.

London, Heather (Wu-Wu to her fans), Rich and Spencer are the Pampered Princesses of Hollywood High Academy. The four frenemies have been toppled from their lofty position and are all falling faster and faster with no stop sign in sight.

London is trying to find her girls but instead finds a group of younger girls sitting at the Pampered Princess' table in the cafeteria. After a wordy confrontation, London is compelled to start a brawl with the young girls, the whole while thinking that is only Heather, Rich and Spencer could handle their own drama, this wouldn't be happening.

While London is fighting for her and the rest of the Pampered Princess' money given rights to be the head clique in their school, Heather, Rich and Spencer are off fighting their own battles that include pregnancy, pill addiction, two timing boyfriends as well as parental problems.

Can London, Rich, Spencer and Heather pull themselves and their friendship together enough to pull themselves out of the downward spiral they find themselves in or will they end up at the bottom of the loser pile?

I felt the characters all lacked something, they all seemed very one dimensional. After reading so many negative things about each of the four lead characters (London, Rich, Heather and Spencer) I found it hard to find anything good about any of them or any of the other characters mentioned in the book. None stood out in any way and I just felt indifferent toward them all.

The storyline was one that has been covered many times before and there was nothing here that made it stand out. It was horribly predictable and there were no surprises.

What was much worse than the unsympathetic, one dimensional characters and the very slowwww moving, predictable plot, were all the negative stereotypes that were mentioned over and over again. And yes, I keep mentioning them simply because I was so thoroughly disgusted with them! This is not a novel I would recommend to anyone!

I received my copy through LibraryThing and my review was unsolicited. ( )

After reading Hollywood High, that brought the funny non stop, I just knew Get Ready for War would be just as hilarious. However, I was disappointed. GRfW did have some funny spots, not much drama and dragged a bit for my taste. I flew through the first book and I creeped through this one. I knew at every turn what the secrets were and thought I'd actually get the drama but to my dismay, up to the very last page, I learned that it will be reserved for the next installment. I missed Heather in GRfW. She didn't have a strong presence in this one but from the ending I see that she will be in the lead in the next.

***I will say that Get Ready for War reveals many scandalous and juicy secrets of the girls and their mothers through out the book. And a bam-bop-pop at the end. lol

I was given this ebook to read and review from the publisher and Netgalley. ( )