Summary: Harper Price is your ideal girl; pretty, smart, kind, and popular. Her life used to be simple until she was kissed by the school janitor in the ladies' room and got intense powers that allow her to kick some butt. After some research she comes to the conclusion that she's a Paladin and that it is her mandate to protect someone. That someone happens to be David Stark, annoying ass journalist. Can Harper survive(literally) her junior year?
Non-Spoiler Review: This was one of those books where the second you finished it, you wanted to read the next one. Some of you might want to wait until the second book comes out(Apr.7.2015) until you read it because it's actually a bit frustrating. Anyhow, the plot of this book was like nothing I've ever seen before. It's overachiever meets ninjas. Harper was a very 3-dimensional character and I liked how all she cared about in the hardest of times was that her parents are okay. Literally, she doesn't care if she dies, but she knows that her death will kill her parents, so she has to make sure she doesn't. David Stark is basically everything I am looking for in a male specimen down to his nerdiness. I don't understand why she finds him so aggravating. David Stark is definitely one of the many reasons that I will be reading the next book. There was quite a bit of action, drama, and the humor was humorous. I laughed at Harper's antics so much.
Spoiler-y Review: The millisecond that I finished the book, I knew this would be in my favorites. Out of all of the books I've read this year, Rebel Belle is by far the best.
It starts off with Harper worrying about her lips, something so naive compared to her character development in the rest of the story. After killing her history teacher, I could tell the story was getting funky. I found it kinda hilarious that she did her research on Google because usually in kick-butt books, the hero always finds the wise old owl or some ancient library to get the info, but Harper uses something so modern. Then, we really get to see David Stark when he writes the article about Harper, which was a bitch move for him, but I still loved him because who doesn't??? Another part I found so funny was when Harper was testing out her powers. First, she slapped that guy(I don't remember his name!) and then she hits this random girl with her pen and blames it on speedy writing and lotion. Because yes, that happens to the best of us. I loved all the David and Harper bickering at the beginning of the book to the middle, where they kinda just accepted each other. The interview for the scholarship was obviously a trap, but it led to Harper threatening Blythe with a stapler, which was very comical. Let's talk about Bee for a sec here. She was such a good friend when she offered to not go to Cotillion just because Harper wouldn't be attending. Obviously, they ended up attending Cotillion, which was a pretty bad disaster considering Bee got taken and David got turned into so glowing Oracle. The whole thing with the punch was actually a surprise to me and it was very smart of Blythe.
I'm worried that the oracle thing is going to eat the David we know up and replace it with some monster. That is actually one of my fears for the next book.
For me, this book was next to perfect. I love it so so much!
Rating: 9.8/10
Recommend? YES to basically everyone because this is the ideal book. Loved it!
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