Review: YOUNG ADULT COMING OF AGE STORY
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2012
This was an enjoyable young adult novel.  The characters seemed real as did the situations in which they found themselves.  I was relieved to learn early on in the book that this wasn't a story about some poor or abused or downtrodden by society  person.  So many novels use these kind of characters, and to me it seems that the authors are somehow trying to mitigate their actions because of their circumstances.  No - in this book, we have an intelligent though naive young African-American girl from a well-to-do family who makes a mistake - - and has to pay for it.  It was a satisfying journey to watch her fight back - and win.