A Novel Idea (20 page)

Clearly, she doesn’t know how much I
don’t
want to remember middle school, or she would never say this to me. I mean, I know I’m not ugly, or even average. I have good hair, I’m tall, I don’t gain weight easily, and I’ve never had a single zit. Not a one. It’s not that I’m egotistical about it either. It’s just a fact of life. A blessing of genetics. And, believe me, pretty girls
know
they’re pretty, even the ones who are smart enough to be modest about it and pretend they don’t know what they look like.

And I know why they do it. Let me tell you: Pretty sometimes sucks.

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Available from Simon Pulse
Published by Simon & Schuster

Seven Sins.

Seven Books.

Seven Teens …

… all determined to get what they want, when they want it. No matter the cost or the drama.

LUST ENVY
PRIDE
WRATH SLOTH GLUTTONY GREED

SEVEN DEADLY SINS BY ROBIN WASSERMAN

Commit the third sin in this juicy series!

From Simon Pulse Published by Simon & Schuster

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aimee Friedman is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
South Beach
, as well as its sequel,
French Kiss
. She graduated from Vassar College in 2001 and has since belonged to not one but two fabulous book groups. Aimee was born and raised in New York City, where she still lives and works as an editor.