Beauty Queens Characters

When the story starts out, Adina is so not a team player. That's because unlike the other teen beauty queens who crash-land on the island, Adina isn't looking to win. She's so anti-pageant-culture...

Like her name, Taylor is larger than life. While the other characters are getting up from the plane crash, Taylor is already calling them to attention. She's ready to take charge, and to do it in s...

There are two sides to Mary Lou, but you wouldn't know it from the beginning. The Mary Lou who starts the book is helpful and congenial—so much so that she's gunning for Miss Congeniality. She ex...

Nicole has a lot to deal with—things most of the other beauty queens wouldn't understand since the pageant world is so white. At first she doesn't want everyone to bring up the race thing around...

Type AShanti is competitive. She's out to win. Her mind always focused on her goal. Yes, that's all saying the same thing. But that's just how committed she is. And it's also a big part of why it t...

Petra probably has the coolest back-story of all the girls: she's a former boy band member. She's biologically male, and entered the pageant to change viewers' ideas about gender and to make enough...

Panther Out of WaterJennifer isn't like the other beauty queens, and it's obvious right from the start. She's described as having "real curves and a pantherlike walk" (6.112). She grew up poor and...

The Snake Charmer Sosie's fierce, and she's a fighter. Before she says a word, she is swallowed by a giant snake. But she doesn't give up, even when she's inside the snake. She pushes herself back...

Tiara is written a bit differently than the other eight protagonists. We don't get her questionnaire, or a section that narrates her backstory. We do get her backstory from other characters' points...

They get a few defining features each, but Brittani Slocum and Misses Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, and Arkansas don't get their own full storylines. In fact, the latter four are so interchangeable th...

Poor Agent Jones. Work keeps getting him down. He has to deal with Harris, the former CEO's son, pestering him all the time. He keeps filling out request forms, but he can't even get The Corporatio...

Harris, the college-age intern of the former CEO of The Corporation, is terrible and ineffective. He tries to get information from a corporate spy, but accidentally kills him too quickly. Come on,...

Ladybird Hope is a beauty queen, turned corporate bigwig, turned presidential candidate from Texas. As you might guess from that description, her evilness is deadly. For example: She sleeps with Mo...

If Ladybird is the extreme of evil, MoMo's the extreme of crazy. A dictator of a small country rich with natural resources, MoMo's is famous for being unpredictable and killing most of his advisors...

Mary Lou had a boyfriend once, who was scared off by her unladylike level of passion. Tane is the opposite. He says to a naked Mary Lou, "all the best people have a little beast in them." (14.110)...

Sinjin is the captain of the reality show Captain Bodacious, and becomes actual ship captain when his crew accidentally sees The Corporation engaging in human trafficking. That's their cue to flee...

Duff has a Casanova complex. Another pirate, he keeps a video blog about the women he sleeps with. Like Adina, who he secretly films having sex with him. Not cool, man. Not cool. Adina initially bl...