Lost It Review

Author: Kristen Tracy

Pages: 276

Rating: 2 Waffles

Excerpt:
I started the first day of my junior year of high school zitless and basically happy. I was sixteen and feeling good. I didn't have any major issues. Okay, that's not entirely true. For weeks I'd been growing increasingly concerned about Zena Crow, my overly dramatic best friend. She'd been going through  rocky stretch and had been talking incessantly about building a bomb. Not a big bomb. Just one that was big enough to blow up a poodle.

Summary: Tess Whistle's got a pretty average life, right? Well, not exactly. You see, her best friend is building a bomb to annihilate a poodle, her parents run away to a lifestlye camp in Utah, and her crazy, millionaire Grandmother moves in. But, she has a boyfriend, and is still feeling pretty alright. But along the way, there's a car wreck, nasty turkey dinners, sexy underwear, lost keys, and exploding shoes. This is the story of Tess Whistle, and average girl, with an interestingly not so average life.


What's Up: Lost It, I must admit, wasn't that great. Althought I should have seen it coming based off of the stereotypical teen cover and pitch. But again,  I'm not one to judge a book by it's cover. Despite a few interesting events, the book was almost boring, and very much the plain ole stereotypical YA book I had suspected it to be. Girl meets boy. Girl falls hopelessly in "love" with boy. They have sex. They break up. Life goes on. Nothing new there, nothing to pull me in really. A few twists- the bomb-building best friend, runaway parents and an kooky grandmother -were interesting enough, but I also felt like a lot of them were pretty unrealistic. It made it harder for me to relate to and enjoy the book because I was constantly going "But wait...!" because of how naive all the adults were, for one thing. And the one thing that really bugs me is the cover. The cover, you know, is pretty nice, but boy is it false! The scene depicted on the cover was in reality, quite false. (Now excuse my frankness here) In the sex scene shown here, it was winter and Tess complained profusely about this fact. So why is the grass all green and healthy-looking, and why are they wearing capris? Another thing, how do you have sex with pants on? I mean I know you can't just fling two naked kids on a book cover, but maybe show just some feet sticking out from under the canoe? Or maybe just show another scene all together? Now that I've ranted about atrocious cover, I should probably get back to reviewing the actual book. Like I said before, Lost It was pretty disappointing. The author is a good writer, I'll give her that; she does a good job telling the story. But the story itself was rather lame. I guess that's about all I have to say, anything beyond it would just be redundant.

Do I recommend it? Yeah, you could. I guess I just like a little more interesting and challenging reads, and Lost It just wasn't up to par with my standards. It's an easy read, so if you're looking for a quick, simple book, this one would do. It's not really my type of book, but everyone's different, so I'll let you be the judge.