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Reviewed by Brenda Ballard for Readers' Favorite
1. Live as much as possible; 2. Listen to dad; and 3. Live without restraint: these are the three promises Shelby made to her mother right before she passed away, leaving the girl with more questions that she answers in her quest to stay true to her word. When her father volunteers to coordinate the annual Princess Ball, Shelby cringes. She has a problem with the whole nobility of it all, the fakeness of the participants and the fact that she doesn't want to be a virgin. What she discovers in the end is where the three merge and become the point her mother was trying to make so many years ago.
Written in chronological form pre-PB and the days following, the author has an amazing talent for pulling the reader into the world of a confused teenage girl who has a lot of questions and who doesn't always get the answers she thought she would. The scenes are true to the life of a hormonal teen girl whose quest for sex outweighs the rationale expected. Every character reminds me of somebody I know or somebody they hang out with in the younger generation of my world. I came away from the book thinking that this is one that everybody should encourage their teenage children to read. You know it is going through their minds, why not just bring it out in the open in this forum and maybe they will learn something?! Highly recommended for older pre-teens, teens, and adults alike!
