Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.com

Maya Naravadee is just doing time. She goes to school, does her homework, tutors, and then spends her evenings working in her parents' Thai restaurant. It's not much of a life. She doesn't get out much and usually only sees her friends at school. She is graduating soon, and she has the GPA to get her into Stanford. It's her light at the end of the tunnel for getting away from Michigan. But everything changes for Maya the day the tutoring office assigns her to Camden King.

Camden is a lazy rich kid. Maya and her friends have never been privy to the hip circle of friends around Camden. So when Maya is assigned to Camden, she does all she can to get out of the arrangement. Being the only available Algebra II tutor available, Maya gives in. From the first session, Maya knows it's not going to work out. Camden spends the session texting various people and then cuts out on her. The next session goes just as poorly. Camden "kidnaps" her and takes her to his house and hot tub. Camden offers her money to do his homework for him. Frustrated, Maya severs all tutoring responsibilities for Camden.

On a weekend Maya's parents have left the restaurant in her hands, a Health Inspector shows up and fines the restaurant $10,000. Maya's parents can't afford to pay the tuition for Stanford, let alone the fine. She is determined to not have her parents find out about the fine. She has six weeks to make the money and pay the fine. So Maya finds herself crawling back to Camden, offering to do his homework for him after all.

The offer starts to snowball, and a business arrangement is quickly formed. Maya soon finds herself with more than just Camden's assignments. Functioning on little to no sleep, Maya expands the business with the help of some of her tutoring friends. All seems to be going well and she may just have the money in time to pay off the fine, when the unexpected happens. She is blackmailed.

Maya has to figure out something before her parents find out, she is expelled, and her hopes of attending Stanford are dashed to bits. She can't tell her friends the whole truth, afraid she'd lose them. And her parents would never understand. Maya only has Camden to help her resolve the problem. But what is Camden to her? She doesn't know if he's just using her, if he's a friend, a boyfriend, or what?

SHE'S SO MONEY is a great debut novel by Ms. Cheva. From the first page, I was pulled into Maya's life. I wanted her to be able to get out and experience life more than her reserved parents would allow her. This is an excellent "what if" story. If Maya had only cleaned the restaurant the night the two rude customers had been there, none of this would have happened. Then, she never would have had a reason to contact Camden again. When all is said and done, Maya has to give up things she hadn't planned to, but just maybe she's better for it in the end. ( )

Pure YA fun.

Maya has always been a good girl. I wish I had her drive! Not only does she work every night at her parent’s restaurant, and tutor students at her school, she also has an unbelievable GPA. All Maya wants to do is make it through the rest of her year with her GPA in tact and run away to Stanford in the fall. And everything seems to be heading in that direction, well everything was headed in that direction until she hit a huge detour!When her parents leave town for a wedding, they leave Maya in charge of the restaurant. Everything goes as smoothly as possible except for a couple of crabby customers, but hey it happens. What Maya wasn’t expecting was a visit from the health department that ends in a $10,000 fine!Fortunately for Maya her current tutor student happens to be none other than Camden King, the mega popular super hottie of her school. When he mentions to Maya that he’ll pay her a hundred dollars to do his homework, she dismisses him, but now that she needs ten grand and in a hurry, it is starting to sounds like a good idea.This book was so fun, and too cute! I loved Camden and Maya, they cracked me up with their sarcastic and smart ass comebacks! I was laughing out-loud throughout the book. Cheva’s writing was totally refreshing. I loved her understanding of young teen voices. I absolutely recommend this book, it is a fun and quick read! You should definitely go pick up a copy! I'm looking forward to reading more by Cheva. ( )

She’s so Money was such an amazing read! I loved the humor, the witty comebacks, and the creative outbursts—a prostitute, a rice-patty farmer, shipping you off to Thailand’s boarding school!

My friend had asked me to read this book for fun but at times I just had to stop to grab some sticky-notes to save that page or quotes because they made me laughed out loud so much. Here’s a small sample of some that I absolutely adore: “The girl is fourteen and has a rack as big as my head. Or, I guess, two of my heads. If you want to get technical.” And another one, “I smiled back with an expression that I hoped said, “I understand,” and not, “Your husband’s a douche,”…” There’s a lot more but you’ll have to buy your copy for that ;P

There was also this one part where Maya’s mother had told her a story about this family they knew in Ohio that I loved. It was something that my parents would do exactly if I were in her position!—exaggerate a small situation to persuade me not to do something, “…where she was free from the corruption of America.” XD another line that I loved!

I would’ve liked to see the romantic aspect of Maya’s and Camden’s relationship developed some more though. I guess in my mind there was a gap between from when it went from business partners to dating, a bit rushed.

Also, the punishment that Maya received from this ‘little’ adventure should’ve been a bit more severe in my mind. Made up this huge cheating gig? Well that will cost you one shiny little penny mister oh, and a 3 day suspension :D. Maybe it’s my opinion and whatnot, but I didn’t think she should’ve still been accepted into her college of her choice at least.

Overall: A really hilarious read that had me waking up at 7:30 AM just to finish when it wasn’t even a school day! “Cherry Cheva is hilarious! She’s So Money is a kick-booty read!”—Lauren Myracle. I cannot agree with this quote even more (…well I would’ve changed the booty into something less appropriate ;P )! I eagerly waiting for Cherry’s next YA book~ Pick your copy up if you want to understand everything I just said! ( )

I didn't like this book. Heavy on the fluff, unrealistic plot and very unlikeable characters. Not to mention the main character supposedly orchestrated a rather complex cheating ring and was never really reprimanded for it. Not in my opinion, anyway. ( )