Review: The Best Possible Answer

The Best Possible Answer by E. Katherine Kottaras
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Viviana is under an immense amount of stress. It's the end of junior year and her future is in the balance. The goal was always to get perfect grades, rock her exams and attend Stanford. Then a distraction, and by distraction I mean boy, sets her off balance. They break up and he does something that sends her world spinning off its axis. Vivi starts having panic attacks and feels that she's not doing anything right in her life. To make it worse, her dad goes on a business trip to Singapore and doesn't come back. She puts every blame and burden on her overworked shoulders.

The characters in the book are very believable and relatable, even if you haven't experienced the same life events that they have. You can feel the friendship between Sammie and Vivi, with all of its ups and down. How much they love each other and do their best to protect one another.

The novel is about believing in yourself, learning to trust and rely on others even when you think you can do it all by yourself, and doing your best. Vivi must learn about herself and realizes that not everything in her life is as it seems.

Highly recommended to teens and young adults who enjoy contemporary ya fiction books about life, loves and high school. (With maybe a little family drama thrown into the mix.) Great, quick, enjoyable read!

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Scream - Stacey R. Campbell

Scream

By: Stacey R. Campbell

Green Darner Press

Published/Release Date: July 20th, 2015

Acquisition: NetGalley

Summary: 

It’s Halle Henry’s final year at Lakeview Academy, and she is determined to make it her best year yet. But when drugs are discovered in her boyfriend Alex’s backpack and he is expelled, Halle’s life spins out of control.

Refusing to believe the accusations against him, Halle vows to get to the bottom of what really happened and bring Alex back to campus so they can graduate together.

Now, all Halle has to do is save her boyfriend, solve a murder, graduate from high school, and keep from getting killed in the process.

My Review:

I was only given the third book to read in the Lakeview Novel Series. That being said, this cannot be read as a standalone novel – the reader would be much too confused. This series is too unbelievable for my taste – like when shows “jump the shark”. The sister is secretly royalty. A student just happens to witness a murder on a ferry and the murderer works at his school. Also, that murder and his wife are actually from Florida where they escaped jail time by hiding out in Canada for an unsolved drug case. And of course, a student solves it all! I’m going to give the author the benefit of the doubt that she did all of her world building and character development in the first two novels, because this one lacked it. I would recommend it to readers that the style of “realistic” fiction that Sara Shepard (ie. Pretty Little Liars, Lying Game) writes.

Verdict: Only If You Read The Prior Books

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