This seemed like a decent YA read where you are literally traipsing through the world of high school. The need for a gossip column seems not of place for high school today. High schoolers nowadays use social media to speak gossip and talk trash. High school students are now keyboard warriors because they hide behind keyboards and tearing each other down. I think there were just too many characters to keep track of and made keeping track of the story annoyingly hard, for me. I think it would’ve been better to focus on one character. This wasn’t quite what I was expecting, and I hate to say it wasted my time, but… Definitely a 2.5 star rating.

This was a fun, light read about the social hierarchy of high school, that was perhaps a bit clichéd and predictable, and nothing remarkable, but was a delight nonetheless

The Out Crowd had a good premise about the social hierarchy in a high school but it felt very unbelievable.

The "In Crowd" are the popular kids for example the fooball players and the cheerleaders and their groupies while the "Out Crowd"is everyone else.

After a blog post that was written about the heard cheerleader Hallie Flynn's breakup goes viral and all the Out Crowd talk about it, Hallie and the rest of the In Crowd start talking about toxicity which quickly gets out of control to the point where just being called toxic gets you a detention or a beating.

I found that the adults were very unrealistic and let the In Crowd get away with anything and it became a dictatorship with the In Crowd in charge and the Out Crowd in constant fear of being labelled toxic.

The Prinicpal of the school starts changing the rules like the fact that football games are mandatory and hiring security guards that are there to make the In Crowds lives easier.

Honest review: I really didn't enjoy this book. It felt very juvenile, and very unbelievable in terms of not only the young adult character's actions, but the adult figures surrounding them also. The premise of this story COULD have been decent, but unfortunately this didn't hit the spot for me.

The Out Crowd is a relevant and engaging read about life in high school. It's well thought out and thought-provoking. A read that both younger and older readers can enjoy.

Most high schools now don't have a rigid social structure as portrayed in the novel but instead, have a fluid hierarchy that isn't how it is shown in the book, instead of football stars at the top it is academically inclined students. Although this book captures the essence of high school it isn't the most relatable as it has an outdated view on the social hierarchy of high schools. Although I enjoyed the content purely as entertainment it was obvious that the author doesn't understand high schoolers and how they are currently and instead is living in the past when stuff like football and cheer were the epitome of popularity.

DNF'd at 50% because of bad grammar, sentences that went nowhere, and just the utter stupidity of this story. I think the author was aiming for satire, but it actually takes some skill to accomplish that. This was just plain bad. It reads like a middle schooler wrote it, but with the baggage of an adult who still hasn't processed their own bad high school experience.

The Out Crowd is a very fun young adult read dealing with the social climate of high schools in the present day. I thought this was a nice read, although I did struggle to get through the whole book as I didn't feel that I was fully engaged throughout.

Thank you to Netgalley for this free copy for a voluntary review.