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7 Clues to Winning You by Kristin Walker 2013 PW Age 12 and up Recommended by Amherst Town Library

Link to the NHUPAC entry [|here]

Comments:

Stock characters and very formulaiv plot; just not enough new ideas or interpretation to make this interesting for me. I found Blythe to be too contradictory to be believable - she's a spoiled, self-centered brat who also volunteer's at the senior home? And I found the two elderly ladies at the home offensive - felt very shallow depictions of cartoonish ladies sniping at each other; not at all charming or feisty as the author probably intended. The ultra-pierced and tattooed burnouts who are really the most kind-hearted kids at the school...YAWN. Another book trying to cram a few too many things in an improbably timeline just to get our MC to her resolution. Pass for me. Yvette/Merrimack