Lexi's Pathetic Fictional Love Life

by Jo Noelle

[phyllish]

This was a good story, well written. It was a fairly typical young adult book, sibling rivalry, Lexi's long-time crush, the best friend, the snotty cheerleader. One thing that made it stand out was that Lexi loves to write and her story is written through the course of the book, so you get to read along as she writes. That was novel and fun. What it also did was allowed the author to use two totally different writing styles and two different genres in one book. And it worked.

I will say up front, just in case you need to know (and this is not a spoiler, you'll find out close to the beginning of the book), the story that Lexi writes is a vampire story. So if you are considering reading this book because you know it is not a vampire book, well, it isn't but it is. :-)

I liked the fact that there were no references to drinking or sex. So many young adult authors seem to feel the need to at least mention these two things and I liked the fact they weren't in the book at all.