The Trouble with Lexie

Because Jessica Anya Blau writes beautifully I've given this book 3.5 stars. The story itself probably doesn't rate that high. It was a little boring at times, somewhat trite, and ended rather disappointingly, but it did have compelling elements.

The main character is a young woman from a less-than-ideal background who has worked hard to overcome her past by acquiring higher education and landing a job miles away from home in an elite boarding school as a high school counselor. She is dedicated, talented, and seemingly popular among her students and colleagues, and has carved out a comfortable life for herself that includes good friends and a fiance. But the normalcy and stability she's achieved -- and craved since childhood -- may not show more be as satisfying as she suspected, or maybe someone with such inauspicious origins is not equipped to sustain them. Or maybe these are the excuses a person conjures in order to grant oneself permission to jump off the deep end. show less

I just couldn't read anymore. There didn't seem to be much plot outside an affair with a student's father and it was boring.

Sweet book. So much has changed in 5 years.