Review: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Publication Date: November 2014
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Source: Review Copy

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Blurb: 

Fifteen-year-old Frankie Landau-Banks has grown up a lot over the summer. She's no longer daddy's little girl - and almost immediately after starting the new semester at her highly prestigious school, she bags goofy-but-gorgeous Matthew Livingston as her boyfriend. They get along great but then Frankie discovers that Matthew is a member of a boys-only secret society that specialise in 'hilarious' pranks. Which hardly seems fair... especially when Frankie knows she's smarter than any of its members. And to prove this, she's going to teach them a lesson.

Impersonating lead member Alpha by using a fake email account is surprisingly easy, and soon Frankie is setting the boys up with all sorts of ridiculous schemes and sending them on wild goose chase after wild goose chase. Alpha's not prepared to lose face and admit it's not him sending the emails - but the fun can't last forever, and soon Frankie will have to choose between what she think she wants, and the reputation she deserves.

Thank you to Hot Key Books for sending me a copy in exchange for a review. 

I recently went to an event with E. Lockhart where she talked about her novels. If you would like to check out my blog post on that, Click Here!

Before reading The Disreputable History Of Frankie Landau-Banks, I had only ever read E. Lockharts We Were Liars and The Boyfriend List. Both novels I enjoyed, so I did go into this novel hoping that I would enjoy it. I read this novel while on my holiday and flew through it.

The novel is centered around our main character Frankie, a fifteen year old girl who has always been looked at as "small" and "innocent" by her family. Frankie attends a prestigious boarding school that her father attended and decided to shed the labels other people have bestowed upon her and to show her true self, to speak her mind and to prove she is a force to be reckoned with. 

E. Lockhart Q&A and Book Signing

Hi book lovers! 



Last Thursday I attended an amazing event held in Eason O'Connell Street, Dublin. 

The signing was a free event held in Easons Dublin and ran by Easons special YA unit Department 51  . 

Easons always put on great events as their staff are so efficient, organised and friendly. 

I had only read E. Lockhart's We Were Liars (review here) and The Disreputable History Of Frankie Landau Banks (review here) before attending the signing.  

I re-read We Were Liars a few days before the event to refresh my memory and enjoyed it just as much the second time round. 

Although the event was mainly in place to promote her newly released in the UK & Ireland edition of How To Be Bad, E did talk equally about We Were Liars and The Disreputable History. 


The area was well laid out with chairs and a speaker so everyone in the audience could see the stage and clearly hear E's stories and anecdotes that she told before launching into the Q&A. 

The book signing was  part of E Lockharts road trip to promote How To Be Bad's re-release. The road trip of events, signings and Q & A's all over the UK and Ireland actually began in Dublin. I thought it was pretty cool to be at the first event of the road trip and the hashtag was very fun to follow on twitter.