Life By Committee by @CoreyAnnHaydu #Review @harperteen @weiss_squad

Some secrets are too good to keep. 

Tabitha might be the only girl in the history of the world who actually gets less popular when she gets hot. But her so-called friends say she’s changed, and they’ve dropped her flat. 

Now Tab has no one to tell about the best and worst thing that has ever happened to her: Joe, who spills his most intimate secrets to her in their nightly online chats. Joe, whose touch is so electric, it makes Tab wonder if she could survive an actual kiss. Joe, who has Tabitha brimming with the restless energy of falling in love. Joe, who is someone else’s boyfriend.

Just when Tab is afraid she’ll burst from keeping the secret of Joe inside, she finds Life by Committee. The rules of LBC are simple: tell a secret, receive an assignment. Complete the assignment to keep your secret safe. 

Tab likes it that the assignments push her to her limits, empowering her to live boldly and go further than she’d ever go on her own.

But in the name of truth and bravery, how far is too far to go?

    

Corey Ann Haydu, author of OCD Love Story, grew up in the Boston area but now lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she drinks mochas and uses a lot of Post-it notes, habits she picked up while earning her MFA at the New School.

If you like a book with a lot of internal drama then this book is for you.

Picture: New Age School, free spirited parents( could’ve been hippies if it was the 60’s) add in mean girls and you’ve got this book. A lot of internal dialog going on with the main character as she’s trying to figure out her place in life since her friends dumped her. Jealousy abounds and juicy rumors fly. The author shows how usage of the internet can throw a curveball into your life and unfortunately the main character decides to catch it instead of letting it go by.

I would give it a 3 out of 5. It wasn’t horribly written or anything. It’s just something that I wouldn’t recommend to a younger teen. More for ages 16 and up. Younger teens are more susceptible to the range of emotions in this book. Even though the main character comes out ok at the end the content may take a toll on a young readers self-esteem.

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own. OR I purchased the book on my own."

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