Crazy Love
Bright and talented high-school senior Kamiyah is at the top of her class, and her aim is to get to Juilliard. Then she hooks up with gorgeous college student Sincere, and her obsession with him takes up her whole life as she cuts school and texts him every minute that they are not together. Where is he? Why doesn’t he answer her calls? In her jealousy, she hacks into his Facebook page and e-mail and then takes violent action against him and the girl he might be involved with. In fact, her colloquial, first-person, present-tense narrative, almost all in fast dialogue, reads as if she is talking to a girlfriend, and the fast-paced, contemporary talk will grab readers. There is family drama, too. She loves Daddy, who buys her a BMW, but her controlling mother is stereotypical, even while Kamiyah herself is controlling and ugly. The brand names will date, but the love and obsession are universal. Grades 10-12. --Hazel Rochman