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    Hot Mess: Summer in the City

    By Julie Kraut and Shallon Lester

    3.5/5

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    EMMA FREEMAN IS waving buh-bye to her standard summer of stationwagoning around the suburbs. This summer she’s heading to the big city. Emma’s totally prepped for days at a fabulous internship and nights of socialite-ing around town. But when you’re 17 and not an heiress, reality is far from pink fizzy drinks and red velvet ropes. As the summer heats up, Emma learns that glamour is hard to come by when your only friend is too boy-crazy to hang, your budget is more H&M than D&G, and you spend 8 hours a day working for a man who proves that the devil wears Dockers too. Add one little white lie told to one very hot coworker and a roommate who makes Paris Hilton look junior varsity, and this summer in the city is starting to turn into one hot mess.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateMay 13, 2008
    ISBN9780375849060
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    • 4/5
      Emma Freeman decides last minute to ditch her plans of lifeguarding with her boyfriend when that boyfriend rather abruptly becomes an ex-boyfriend. What better way to forget about your ex than to ditch the suburbs for Manhattan? Best friend in tow, she sets off for an internship, adventure, and maybe love in the big city. By the time the girls head back to school, they've found all of that and more: in total, a hot mess.Initially, I did not care for this book at all. I've worked as a high school teacher and camp counselor for the last seven years and the girls reminded me of some of my less-beloved charges. They're incredibly naive and immature, and the first few chapters of the book seemed implausible and stilted. Once it got going, however, I found myself getting drawn into the story and seeing more positives in the girls. Yeah, they are immature but hey- they're 17 and 18. Weren't we all? Their adventures with crappy jobs, crazy bosses, and utter confusion in the face of Manhattan's chaos reminded me a bit of my own early days in the city (I moved from rural Northern CA to NYC for college at 17)- getting lost on the trains, trying desperately not to look like a tourist, attempting to control your hair in the wretched humidity that is New York in the summer. Oh, the memories. . . but I digress.By the end of the book, I had actually grown rather fond of little Emma; the author did a nice job of developing her from an ignorant and oblivious high schooler to an ignorant and aware young woman, which I liked far better than an attempt to transform the character into a full-fledged grown-up. Ms. Kraut and Ms. Lester certainly did a nice job a capturing the 17 and 18 year old mentality, along with its hopes, dreams, fears, and surprising resiliency. True, the story is a bit (well, fairly) implausible in some ways but I could see a lot of my high school girls really loving it. I'd also like to add, for any teachers or parents out there, that this book did a nice job dealing with the drinking and fooling around that inevitably surround most high schoolers these days. These girls aren't too squeaky clean to be true but neither are they wanton sexpot addicts, the latter of which I see all too often. They reminded me of my normal good-girl students- they have a drink here and there and enjoy making out with the boys but are pretty innocent at heart. I would easily feel comfortable recommending this to my girls, and I'm pretty strict about that for obvious liability reasons. So if you know any mainstream high school girls that like light romantic adventure stories, this would be a good pick.
    • 3/5
      Emma, our main character, needs a huge change. She is tired of her usual summer activities and even more tired of her cheating boyfriend. She and her BFF decide to head out to New York. Visions of Sex and the City, glamorous nights out and more importantly, an endless supply of beautiful clothes spring up to mind.Emma heads out to New York and immediately hooks up with a socialite (what luck). So, the three girls decide to bunk together and live the "real" life of New York.Except that not of it is quite as fun or glamorous as Emma expected it to be. On top of all that, she has met a cute guy....This story is charming and funny. I instantly liked Emma and could identify with her dreams of wanting to do more with her life. Of course, this novel being mainly set in New York, we also get to meet some less than likeable characters, but this added to the book for me.Some of the situations the girls got themselves into or "happened" to fall into were a little bit over the top at times, but it somehow worked with the overall tone of the book.The message of the book comes out loud and clear - the grass is not always greener on the other side!This is a good read for any YA and I would recommend it.