Foul is Fair, Hannah Capin ~ BLOG TOUR

Hola bookishbrains,
since this is an International blog tour I will write in English (but stay tuned cause in the next following days I’ll write a review in Italian).

SUMMARY:
Jade and her friends Jenny, Mads, and Summer rule their glittering LA circle. Untouchable, they have the kind of power other girls only dream of. Every party is theirs and the world is at their feet. Until the night of Jade’s sweet sixteen, when they crash a St. Andrew’s Prep party. The night the golden boys choose Jade as their next target.
They picked the wrong girl.
Sworn to vengeance, Jade transfers to St. Andrew’s Prep. She plots to destroy each boy, one by one. She’ll take their power, their lives, and their control of the prep school’s hierarchy. And she and her coven have the perfect way in: a boy named Mack, whose ambition could turn deadly.

“Because they’re innocent, innocent, innocent as long as they tell themselves they are. As long as they can tell themselves we’ll remember and she won’t. Because to them it isn’t real and it isn’t wrong and that little whore with the jade-green eyes would never come for them.
Because that little whore with the jade-green eyes is no one at all.
Because she’s just a girl, alone and trapped and powerless with their hands locked over her mouth-
– and they’re the golden boys today and the whole world tomorrow.”

Sorry for the long quote, but I really wanted to start with it because it contains perfectly the essence of the book.

Foul Is Fair is a book about revenge, it’s about taking back power that men try to pry from us, it’s about a girl who won’t be a victim and takes justice in her own hands.
It’s about rich boys who thinks they have the world at their feet, and people that are too afraid to say otherwise.
It’s a war cry.
It’s talons ripping through boys skins.
It’s claws scratching patriarchy’s face.

The story is really fast-paced, dark and violent. The reader follows Jade homicidal plan to destroy one by one the boys who raped her. She infiltrates their school, their group and makes the golden boy fall in love with her in order to make him kill them all.

The tone of the book is lyrical but the words are very colloquial and this creates a dualism that the reader needs to get used to. I have to admit that I had an hard time with that. But in the second half of the book, I found myself transported by the rhythm and unable to tear myself away from it.
The story is not the most realistic one, and it’s often over the top BUT it’s powerful and raw. I think that Hannah Capin consciously exaggerated various scenes and elements to make her message clearer. Besides, Macbeth was not very realistic, as well.

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”

Foul is Fair is a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, mixed with Riverdale & Mean Girls. All of it basically screams Hollywood. It certainly would make a good movie, albeit an implausible one.
At the beginning of the book, I had an hard time, not only due to the writing style, but also for the implausibility of certain scenes (sometimes it felt like I was reading a Charlie’s Angels movie script).
Moreover, the swift and lyrical rhythm of the writing style has made the story very fast-paced but, unfortunately, has also rendered nearly impossible for the author to write deep characters. In fact, from the protagonist, to her coven & the doomed boys the characters stays all really cliché throughout the novel.