Review: I think I may have piddled myself a few seconds ago.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2013
I picked this book up because it was in my Goodreads recommendations. I retain that fascination I've had since I was twelve for love affairs between Jane Doe and Famous Rocker/Actor/Model/Pirate. Most of the time these books give me a few hours of happy, I get over it and then I read some other book. This won't be happening with this book. It was so hilarious that I was belly laughing so loud my husband thought I was emotionally unhinged and neck deep in psychotic hysterics.I don't even know what point to hit up first. Violet's perpetual embarrassment and hopeless humiliation reminded me of the Paul Rudd movie I Love You, Man. It's really wrong to find other's pain comical, but sometimes you just can't be an upstanding person. I know laughing at soul scarring loss of dignity makes me a bad person but there is something about a teenage girl blurting out 'nice ass' in an awkward moment when she catches her crush with a naked woman in his bed that makes me love her social impairment. I also loved her mother's blurting out about Violet stripping at her grandmother's bakery over the summer.Zane is chocolate cupcake delicious. The happenings with the thing and he does that thing and Violet responds by doing a thing of her own which makes him want to do that thing more... I just have to say that I will never swim in the apartment complex pool again without hoping that some heavenly-sent guy will be fascinated with my fun bags and whisper naughty things in my ear. It's unfortunate that almost ever male that visits our pool is between the ages of five and the cusp of their teens. It will only tarnish the fantasy of a little Zane-ity in my life a little.Only one of the reveals was something I saw coming. I think it was sort of overly obvious, but the feelings and the atmosphere around it was handled well. The major who-dunit smacked me like a freight train.I will definitely read more titles by Nicole Christie. I really loved her characters.