I read this novel over the past couple of days. It's good; it's about (spoilers alert) a high-achieving "good girl" named Mara Valentine and what happens when her bad-girl niece V comes to live with Mara and her parents for a school year. It's kind of a classic sisters story, where very different sisters who kind of hate each other realize that each person has good qualities and they actually do care about each other. Mara lets loose a bit and V cleans up her act a bit and everyone feels good.
The one thing I didn't understand was whether Mara and her boyfriend James ever actually ended up having sex. The description of that was odd. They were both fully dressed and dry humping and it seemed like an orgasm happened, but it was somewhat unclear. What a rip off. Wasn't Forever by Judy Blume controversial because it had sex and the Pill in it? Circa 1975. Surely today's readers of adolescent lit deserve a little more than dry humping, no?! No?
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