Top 8 by Katie Finn

How great is Facebook these days! You go on to talk to friends, keep up with all the details and have some fun. That’s what everybody does. Right?

Katie Finn wrote the book Top 8 about this girl Maddie McDonald that’s in senior school. Its spring break and this is everybody’s favourite holiday. This year’s Spring break Maddie went on a holiday to Ecuador and had no internet what so ever, so she couldn’t keep in touch with her friends and even worse she couldn’t check her Friendverse. When she finally gets back from her holiday, the first thing she does is check her social life. All she sees is all these comments and she is thinking that she has been so popular, but actually she has been HACKED! What will her friends going to think of her? Is her boyfriend going to understand what the situation is? Will this change her whole life around?

Maddie is really nice and kind and everybody tells her everything which means everybody can trust her, but does she actually keep those secrets or tell someone? She has many close friends, but yet mingles with everyone including the theatre kids and even the computer nerds. Maddie thought that everybody was her friend, but after she came back from her holiday she found out that her friends have betrayed her. But what did they actually do to turn Maddie’s whole life around? How will Maddie fix this?

Maddie is a character who is very likeable. Everybody trusts her, which is why they tell her all of their secrets. Maddie usually keeps those secrets to herself but she spills them to other people when she is not meant to, but as she told them to her friends, she thought that she could trust them not to tell anyone that secret. As she got hacked her friends thought it would be a great idea to take over Maddie’s account and tell all of those secrets that weren’t even meant to be known.

I thought this book was interesting but it took a long time to understand the moral of the story. It dragged on as it was talking about what people were wearing. As you finish the book and reflect over it you think of all the good parts in the book which make it likeable. Overall I thought this was a good book.