Review: 3.5-4 stars. First for everything.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
I really, really, really liked the first 20-30% of the book. Kip is a 15 year old girl trying to make ends meat as a photographer in LA. Her mother is a flake and on the hunt to be the next big movie star. Poor Kip is left to fend for herself. Everyone thinks Kip is 18 and even I don't believe she is 15. She is so mature, witty, intelligent and pretty badass for only being 15. She is wise beyond her years. One evening she gets the perfect shot of a big shot Actor Alex Milne. He later contacts her to take more perfect pictures of him and they hit it off. I get the feeling he is much, much older than 19. But I guess he isn't. These two have a weird relationship. I never really felt any kind of romanticness between them. More of close friends. And then I started wondering if they all know she is in fact not 18, why are they trying to set her up with an older man. But then the truth comes to light and I wasn't grossed out and worried so much anymore. Her mother however I did not like very much. Towards the end she is okay, but she is not a very good mother. Bay and Shari are better role models for her for sure. From the time she lives with Bay the story got kinda boring and dragged on. The story line was mysterious and intriguing, I just was a bit bored and not as interested as I was in the start. And then Alex and Kip go on a few dates I suppose and you can feel something there, more than what I felt in the start. And they get very jealous of one another and seem very possessive but yet they are not "officially dating" I hope this changes. I get it is YA, but I just need a TINY bit more romance and sex from my stories. I didn't get that in this and of course the genre, but still, I feel a bit more could be done. And Kip is also waiting, so that is good. Just wish she was a bit older so I could get my kicks lol. And the end was HOLY BALLS!!! wow, speechless! all in all it was a decent read. I am going to read the next book and hopefully gets a tiny bit better. There was humor and mystery and interest, just dragged, also there was a lot of errors, do not take anything away from the story, I just wanted to throw that in, they did not affect the story in any way."Most girls like me; I never made anyone throw up before. I suppose there's a first time for everything."