Review: Funny and witty!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2012
On general terms, I usually don't read YA literature. But the premise behind "Bras, Boys and Blunders" (BB & B) intrigued me, and, oh boy, was I in for a pleasant surprise! This is the story of Veena, a young girl growing in multicultural Bahrain. She is your typical teenager going through her typical teen crushes and obsessed about bra sizes. She gets chosen to play Juliet at the school play and from then on all He11 breaks loose. Our young protagonist claims she wants to become the "Indian James Paterson" but she's more like a modern day Emma Bombeck with a generous dash of Nora Ephron thrown in. The plot was a bit predictable for my taste, but I didn't walk away disappointed from this book. In fact, I'm looking forward to readIndian Maidens Bust Loose, another book by the same author, of which there's a sizeable excerpt included at the end of BB & B.