A Letter From Nana Rose, by Kristin Harper, which was a so-so romance that was promised to be a family mystery. NOT. Before that I had read They Could Have Called Her Anything, by Stephanie Rodriguez, which left me with real mixed feelings. As a coming-of-age novel about a Hispanic girl from Queens attending a private school in Manhattan on scholarship it had its moments, but not really enough to make it worth wading through messy friendships and what I felt was a really unnecessary injection of attempted sexual abuse by someone's father. Plus a really inconclusive ending. It was advertised as a real "breakout" book by a new author, but I wish she'd learned to put a novel together properly. I have just started a new YA called Seven Ten Third by Sara Mack which is sort of promising---it's about a girl who accidentally ran over and killed a popular athlete at her high school when he was drunk and what she has to face when she goes back to school the following year. (This was a recommendation from a friend who is also a writer and knows what I'm writing.)
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