Confessions of an Angry Girl

Series: Confessions #1

Paperback, 304 pages
Expected publication: August 28th 2012
Publisher: Harlequin
Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

*Ecopy received from Edelweiss.

Synopsis via Goodreads:

Rose Zarelli, self-proclaimed word geek and angry girl, has some CONFESSIONS to make...

#1: I'm livid all the time. Why? My dad died. My mom barely talks. My brother abandoned us. I think I'm allowed to be irate, don't you?

#2: I make people furious regularly. Want an example? I kissed Jamie Forta, a badass guy who "might" be dating a cheerleader. She is now enraged and out for blood. Mine.

#3: High school might as well be Mars. My best friend has been replaced by an alien, and I see red all the time. (Mars is red and "seeing red" means being angry-get it?)

Here are some other vocab words that describe my life: Inadequate. Insufferable. Intolerable.

(Don't know what they mean? Look them up yourself.) (Sorry. That was rude.)

~My Review~

The synopsis alone had me thinking this book was going to be a good read. And it sure was, in some ways. I liked how at the beginning of each chapter there's emphasis on a word and its definition reflecting some part of the main character's life. Aside from the humor aspect, there are not so funny segments that add to the greatest of the novel: a family coping with the loss of a parent and the emotional distance of another, and a young girl coming into her own.

Call me old fashioned...

I may be raised differently, but at 14 or 15 years old going all the way with a guy was never on my mind. So, I could relate with Rose not being interested in partaking in that and other things. At that age I was focused on having fun with my friends and improving my art, which leads me to another thing I liked about the book.

Rosie's crush, Jamie, is a budding artist. That made me like his character a bit, but his girlfriend is a total biatch. Anyways, with these two to the left, I'd like to divert my attention to Robert. I didn't like the fact that he smoked but his character appealed to be so for some reason I rooted for him to end up with Rosie.

Poor family dynamics...

Something else I noticed about this book is all the kids seem to be from complicated families. Its like none of the characters came from a stable family structure. It's not unrealistic but it would've been nice to have at least one in the book because that made the story a bit more depressing.

To be honest, Confessions of an Angry Girl was interesting but it sort of bored me in some areas. Rosie's character I liked, at times I was mad at her for taking out her frustrations on people around her, but I got that she's just trying to deal. Overall, the book was good. I didn't think I could like a story where the main character was fourteen but the plot was good.

About the Author

Louise Rozett is an author, a playwright, and a recovering performer. She is making her YA debut with Confessions of an Angry Girl, published by Harlequin Teen, due out on 8/28/12. She lives with her cool boyfriend Alex and awesome dog Lester in one of the world's greatest literary meccas, Brooklyn.

Visit www.Louiserozett.com for more info.