Karen Brewer

[zomandi]

I'm sorry if I offend anyone here, but Karen was always my least favorite. I always felt she was a greedy little brat. If you go to fanfiction.com and look up "Karen's Shoplifting trip", you will find a story that I tihnk really brings out her awful qualities.

[Karen Brewer]

^That is probably the funniest BSC fic I've ever read. The author used to post on the boards but unfortunately she's been gone for awhile. She also authored Karen's Religion which hasn't been updated but was off to a great start.

[sweetvalleygirl99]

Aug 20, 2008 16:39:06 GMT -5 Karen Brewer said:

^That is probably the funniest BSC fic I've ever read. The author used to post on the boards but unfortunately she's been gone for awhile. She also authored Karen's Religion which hasn't been updated but was off to a great start.

Same here, I thought it was so awesome; I laughed so hard reading it that I was in near tears. I liked Karen's Religion too (the parts I read anyway, especially when she goes to Pamela's church lol), especially since something like that was never brought up much in LS so it was like tying up a loose end. I wish she'd update it some more but there was a lot of hate comments written about it on FF and something tells me that she decided to stop writing it due to that.
I had no idea the author of those stories was posting on here. What was her name on here?

[booboobrewer]

^I think her name is Katie.

[Lila]

Karen is pretty greedy but she's a kind kid too, which is pretty rare considering what she has.
Her parents and her step parents don't step in to discipline her and let her run amok with a lot of things.
However, she seems to have a lot toys and games, but the parents do make her work or earn it. she doesn't get stuff handed to her all over the place dispite daddy being rich.

[anzuhana]

I like Karen but that might be because I didn't read enough books in which she was a brat.

[booboobrewer]

I've never stopped liking Karen even though I dislike a lot of her behavior in both BSC and LS...she's flawed but a fun and interesting character to read about.

[msstock87]

I never disliked Karen either, she has done some stuff that have shocked me with some of the stuff she has done. I always found her to be a fun seven year old.

[candykane]

I liked Karen a lot when I was a kid. I still like reading her books, but as an adult I can definitely see her bratty side a lot better! I used to think the fact that she had to have TWO pairs of glasses was super cool, especially because one pair was pink!

[LadyDru]

While I had definitely noticed her bratty side the older I got and what a vindictive person she can be when ticked off about something, it's not enough for me to say she's a monster..can still read most of my favorites without being aggravated..maybe I followed a different series, but she did not receive everything she wanted, (that would be Pamela's department, since she is said to have everything) nor did she escape punishment for misdeeds..even if it was just a severe scolding, lecture or a reminder of the rules, something was said if she did anything out of line..then again there were a couple of times she was chided/punished for things that shouldn't even be an issue and not every misdeed she committed is to be classified as bratty..and at least 75% of the time she was denied something she wanted even after begging she just says boo and eventually accepted the decisions. Like, for instance, when she was told she couldn't have a kitten from Growly's litter,if she really wanted to be spoiled, she would have just taken one of them and hide it in her closet or something, but she didn't do that. Another example would be packing up her clothes and sneaking out to move to Nancy's house even after Lisa said no, she couldn't move there..and why would Kristy hate her if she has some of the same traits herself?? (Unless they are so alike that they clash and Kristy happens to hate anyone who's like her.)

[merrymelody]

I think what was irritating about her was more the babysitters' reactions to her than her own behaviour. Like, for a seven year old rich kid who'd already gone through a divorce and parents who for some reason decide to adopt a toddler and tell the family about 12 hours; she wasn't too challenging. It was more about how the babysitters and Watson indulged her a lot when she acted up, and how kids like Jenny P. got described as brats when she had a lot of similarities with Karen.

[cnj]

Jun 9, 2020 10:12:35 GMT -5 merrymelody said:

I think what was irritating about her was more the babysitters' reactions to her than her own behaviour. Like, for a seven year old rich kid who'd already gone through a divorce and parents who for some reason decide to adopt a toddler and tell the family about 12 hours; she wasn't too challenging. It was more about how the babysitters and Watson indulged her a lot when she acted up, and how kids like Jenny P. got described as brats when she had a lot of similarities with Karen.

I don't think Karen was really bratty or spoiled at all...sometimes mischievous, but not truly horrible.

And I'm glad the BSC were not harsh or negative with her.

And I'm definitely glad that neither of Karen's parents or stepparents were ever harsh or punitive with her.

I liked that fact that the series didn't make a huge deal about Karen's family being wealthy either.

Karen...and Kristy...are thankfully not Lila Fowler. 😀😀😀

[CharlotteTJohanssen]

I never disliked her, she seems like a fun if hyper active kid.

[sparklymouse]

I know this was for the purpose of her book series, but I disliked how she had a different hobby practically every book. It made her less relatable for me.

[cnj]

Jun 23, 2021 13:30:02 GMT -5 CharlotteTJohanssen said:

I never disliked her, she seems like a fun if hyper active kid.

Me either...Karen is fun to read about and is no more "annoying" than most other seven-year-olds.