Review: Touch UP!!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2011
OK. I enjoyed this story in the same way I like Jennifer Echols teen reads:Major Crush (Romantic Comedies (Mass Market))andThe Ex Games (Romantic Comedies),  but this book needs a more enticing cover and name.  Why is it called fantasy football?  It really is not about football, but about a young girl named Parker who was part of the problem of division in her high school because of past hurts and an inability to deal with them properly. Ya know, awkward teenage years when you feel everything so earnestly.  This story was more about seeing things another way - like you do with a camera, which is what Parker is looking out of most of the story.  It should have been called "Picture This", "What You Don't See" or "Snap Shot, Got you!"  Wow, that was fun...."Fantasy Photo", "The Way I See It", "Touch Up" (I kinda like that one since it is like Touch Down in football).  Fine, I'll Stop, you get the picture. Ha.Parker Collins is beautiful with an attitude.  She doesn't understand why the boys don't ask her out and discovers from her best friend's boyfriend that is because all the boys are afraid she will freak out on them.  She has a difficult home life with a critical mother, an animosity with her sisters and being set in her defensive wont-take-any-crap-from-anyone ways.  She no longer wants to behave this way, and begins to give everyone and everything a second chance.  It turns out her mother wants a relationship with her, her sisters don't hate her and even her arch nemesis could use some forgiveness and help.  Parker learns that a lot of kids going to high school are just as confused and abused as she feels and what it means to be a caring friend to others.  To sound cliché, life is not always as it appears to those on the outside of the picture looking in and that many people have to deal with difficult circumstances that they are trying to keep out the public eye. (more Photo analogy. I had no idea it was this prominent in the story before I started writing this review)So I recommend this kindle story to girls aged 15 and below with the possibility of a new title and cover art (cough, Mrs. LoGalbo, cough) 'Would I/Did I buy it? YesWould I read it again? YesWould I recommend it to friends? Yes, young girls