Frenemies: What to Do When Friends Turn Mean
Hayley DiMarco
Revell Books, 2010, 136 pp., $12.99, RevellBooks.com
From the bestselling author of Mean Girls and Technical Virgin comes what seems a narrowly focused book on dealing with friendship gone bad. The more I read, the more I summed it up as a sort of “Boundaries for Girls.”
DiMarco helps the reader recognize a frenemy: “She’s a friend and an enemy. She’s nice a lot of the time, but boy, when she’s mean, she is oh-so mean.” What teenaged girl doesn’t deal with that at some point?
Using lots of Scripture passages and everyday examples, DiMarco shows how to love a frenemy, repair a broken friendship when possible, break up with your frenemy and how to deal with one you can’t leave because she’s related to you. This volume delivers good, biblical, practical girl advice we’ve come to expect from DiMarco.
