This book is absolutely hysterical. I laughed and laughed at all the crazy situations these beauty queens were thrown into. Each of the different beauty queens was distinctive and interesting and they all had a story as to why they did pageants and they all grew as women because of the crash. There's also quite a bit of crazy action from giant snakes to quick sand to explosions. It's a fantastic bit of satire with plenty of feminism thrown in for good measure, leaving the reader with a message that they should stop listening to outside influences and be who they want to be.
Appropriateness: This book is full of adult situations. One of the characters has sex (and demands that the guy use a condom, yay!) and two other do everything but. The scenes aren't erotic but there are descriptions of the heavy petting. There's quite a bit of language and enough girl part jokes to turn off male readers (who would be turned off by the title) The girls eat some berries that make them hallucinate and the girls get trashed. None of the material is inappropriate for the high school aged audience that the book is targeted towards and the ultimate message is a very positive one of self empowerment for girls. I would recommend this book for readers 14+ (Moms will like it too). The book is not as fluffy as one would expect by looking at the cover and is actually a fairly tough read that requires the reader to be able to understand satire.
