Ooh dear. I had a bad feeling just reading the blurb of this book - a group of girls come in and try to take over the school with feminism. I felt like it would either be really good or really bad..... and unfortunately it is the latter. 

The premise of the plot itself might not be too bad (and that's where the 2 stars do come from), if it wasn't framed around all of our characters talking about how unreasonable it was for any form of feminism to exist, because "things were bad in the past, but I don't think it's fair to want any more rights"........... 

Combine that with some very clunky dialogue, and it just didn't add up to a good book.

And to add insult to injury, the resolution felt very anticlimactic. Giles is released from the trance in a very convenient way (although it is sort of tied into the plot later), and no spoilers but the end of the villains is literally written as "her arms fell and she died" and then we move on.

There is one slightly touching (but still very, very clunky) scene where Buffy and Oz talk about gender expectations... the resolution of their conversation, where they decide they can be masculine and feminine however they want to be, is nice but unfortunately the road to get their is incredibly awkward and stilted.