Fourteen

Very cute LFL find. A sort of gentle send-up of the teen romances that were so popular back in the day. I love all the different characters, and the mystery, and the end.

There is a mention of one strategy for getting a boyfriend is to not let them know how smart you are, but it's made clear enough, I think, that the reader can recognize that as bad advice. After all, our gal is very smart and wants to be, no, *knows* she'll be, a pharmacist. Of course, both of her parents are writers, so they're disappointed. ;)

Y'know what... I read this so quickly I think that I didn't fully appreciate it. I'm going to tuck it away and reread it some time later.

Rebecca's mother is a writer, which Rebecca finds frustrating because the main characters in her mother;s books always seem to resemble her in some way. Rebecca is relieved when her mother begins her fourteenth book, which will be a romance. There is no romance in her life. In the beginning of the book anyway. Sachs works hard to have a romantic lead that is not stereotypical, which is laudable. But, the character seems forced and he is not the only one. So is the mystery about his dad's whereabouts. This book is not worth adding or keeping in a collection.