Review: okay story about peer-pressure and virginity,
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2014
(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to author Aurelia B. Rowl.)17-year-old Valentina just got dumped because she wouldn’t have sex, so now her friends are determined that she needs to lose her virginity.Will ‘Operation: Popping the Cherry’ be a success? Or should Lena wait for things to happen naturally?This was an okay story, and I liked how it ended.Lena was an okay character, but she did need to stand up for herself a little more, and stop letting other people push her around. I didn’t blame her for being annoyed at her friends and their little intervention where her virginity was concerned, but I wish she’d told them that she was happy waiting, rather than being forced to go along with their plans.The storyline in this was okay, although it wasn’t 100% what I expected. I thought the storyline strayed a bit from the main ‘popping the cherry’ theme, and did stray onto more serious territory, which I wasn’t really expecting.The romance was one of the main storylines, and I have to say that I got really frustrated! I wanted Lena to stand up for what she wanted more – why go out with guys you don’t like when you know which guy you really want? And even if she wasn’t sure about Jake, why not flirt a bit and take advantage of the fact that he wanted to spend time with her? And when he is flirting back that is a good thing! Don’t push him away when you don’t really want him to go!The ending was okay, and there were some important lessons that Lena learned, I just wish she had had a bit more self-confidence.Overall; okay story about peer-pressure and virginity,6.5 out of 10.