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    Seven Deadlies: A Cautionary Tale
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    Seven Deadlies: A Cautionary Tale

    Written by Gigi Levangie

    Narrated by Audrey Esparza

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    About this audiobook

    Dear Bennington College Admissions Officer:

    I'm probably not your average applicant from Beverly Hills, CA. And I'm not one to brag, but I'm pretty much the smartest girl in my class at Mark Frost Academy. My grades are excellent. My motivation is high. I don't drink or do drugs or hang out with the bad kids. I'm pretty much all business. My life is not going to end here, in this part of Los Angeles.

    I'm going places.

    Which brings me to my latest venture: babysitting teenagers.

    A few of the moms talked to my mother. You should see them. They gather around her like Bieber fans. She's barely five feet tall, beautiful and regal, a Latina queen. Their diamond bracelets shimmer. I look at those bracelets and want to eat them.

    Where did they go wrong?

    Can Perry help out this weekend? I have to go to New York for fashion week. I have to go to a premiere. My daughter needs help with biology . . . and staying out of my medicine cabinet.

    I get paid forty an hour. I have business cards.

    My name is Perry Gonzales. The stories you are about to read are true. The names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent. By the time you're finished, I think you'll appreciate how desperately I need to get out of here.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 17, 2013
    ISBN9780698136762
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    Seven Deadlies: A Cautionary Tale
    Author

    Gigi Levangie

    Gigi Levangie is the author of several novels, including The Starter Wife, which was adapted for an Emmy award-winning miniseries starring Debra Messing, and Maneater, which was adapted for a Lifetime miniseries starring Sarah Chalke. In addition, Levangie wrote the screenplay for the movie Stepmom, starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. Her articles have appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Glamour.

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    • 3/5
      I was really really not expecting that ending, probably because the whole thing was built into this Dahl-like world where you know these things are completely insane and yet you believe them. None of it, even the ending, was intended to be taken terribly seriously, and sometimes that's a lot of fun.
    • 5/5
      I received an ARC of this book from Penguin Publishing in exchange for an honest review..

      "Seven Deadlies" is the story of the seven deadly sins as interpreted by a fourteen year old girl who uses her life experience tutoring other students as the basis from which she draws her conclusions about the ways in which other people live. The biggest influence in Perry Gonzalez's life is her mother, Yelena Maria Gonzalez, who makes her living as an RN. Perry has a very full life as a tutor and a student herself, so she doesn't have a lot of friends her own age, and she has no siblings. As a result, she becomes close to and involved in the lives of those she tutors as well as the lives of their families. Whenever she becomes confused by the twists and turns her student's lives take, she turns to her mother who always helps her with wise advice about troublesome behavior.

      Perry Gonzalez is a very, very smart girl both in measurable IQ numbers as well as people skills. She is only fourteen years old, but she has written these stories as her admission letter to Bennington School where she would like to continue her education and dream of becoming a writer after she graduates from Mark Frost Academy. Currently Perry attends Mark Frost Academy on a scholarship since she comes from a one parent, underprivileged background. In spite of the fact that everyone else at Perry's school has far more material glam than she does, Perry is content making $40 an hour tutoring and watching her bank balance grow. She says she wants to be sure she has some spending money when she gets to Bennington.

      The stories Perry tells about Lust, Wrath, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Envy, and Pride are all well thought out. Some of the stories are hilarious, some are grim, and one in particular I thought was heartbreaking. All of the stories showcase Gigi Levangie's ability to write from the perspective of a young, teenaged girl who has a good imagination and a talent for story telling. The surnames Perry gives her people were often hilarious, and even though I should probably contain myself better at my age, I still get the giggles over Porscha Crisp Blogsnot. Never mind trying to say that out loud. I just can't do it.

      All of this, in my view, adds up to a quirky, funny, interesting, and very entertaining book. It reminded me somewhat of the movie Se7en, only without all the blood and the box at the end. The book even has a Brad Pitt kinda guy! And then I came to the last two chapters. After reading them, I had to go back to read them again. Then I had to sit for a bit and think about all I'd read. There's a twist at the end that stunned me. It didn't change my mind about how good I think this book is; it did make me view it, however, from a different angle. It also made me cry. Add to that the wonderful, stark, haunting images from Cecelia Ruiz, and I think this is one of the best books I've read in a while. I look forward to catching up on Gigi Levangie's previous work as well as anything she does in the future. Seven Deadlies is definitely a keeper.
    • 3/5
      This quirky, satirical tale takes the form of a college admission essay sharing fourteen year old Perry Gonzalez’s insights into the privileged lives of her peers.A precocious Latina scholarship student living in a tiny apartment with her estimable mother, Perry tutors, or babysits, the progeny of the Hollywood neighbourhood to save for her future. In this manner she is exposed to the personification of the seven deadly sins and writes of the inevitable consequences of lust, wrath, gluttony, greed, sloth, envy and pride.From the demanding diva whose lust for her every desire results in electrocution, to the gluttonous appetite of a young boy who mistakes his own flesh for a leg of ham, there is plenty of humour, if morbidly exaggerated, in the stories Perry has to share. However in each vignette there is also the dark, sad truth of children corrupted by excess, variously indulged or ignored by their parents, and who ultimately pay a high price for their sinful behaviour.While I was a little puzzled by the ending and didn’t think the twist necessary, I found Seven Deadlies to be an entertaining novel with the potential to find an audience with both young adult readers and a more mature audience.