UNDISCOVERED GYRL

Author: Allison Burnett

Genre: YA Fiction, Standalone

Published: 2009

Personal Rating: 4/5 (very good)

Yearly Count: 118

Please Note: While being thankful for the opportunity to receive and read this ARC, I feel the need to post the blurb from its cover. However, in my opinion there is usually too much disclosed. Read at your own discretion.

From the ARC Cover:

Only on the internet can you have so many friends and be so lonely.

* We're all famous in our own minds.

* Complete honesty is a complete lie.

* What's worse than keeping a shameful secret?

* All s*x has consequences, most of them dire.

* Don't read my life. Go live your own!

I'm not exactly sure what I really liked about this book. It could be the realism portrayed in Katie, the gossipy nature, the connection with blogging, the draw into Katie's emotional roller-coaster, the epistolary format (blogging dates), the secondary characters, the humor, the risky behavior, the fact that I learned to like Katie, etc. In truth, I think it's a little bit of everything.

What I didn't like was the s*x scenes. I don't believe that all the details needed to be spelled out. However, after a while I felt like I knew Katie, so her behavior became expected and accepted . . . because that was Katie, and she was the one telling the story. (I remembered that it was a book after all, so it was okay to accept it from a fictional character.) Anyway, I was always looking for the good in her and hoping for the best for her.

This was quite a book. I am left with many emotions (just finished it) and sadly think that it's probably a very scary truth.

Thank you, Vintage Books for sending me this ARC.