My Life Undecided (Book Review)

My Life Undecided
Jessica Brody

Paperback, 336 pages

Published November 13th 2012 by Square Fish

PLEASE READ THIS! MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!

Okay, maybe that was a bit melodramatic, but I’m sorry, I’m feeling a bit melodramatic at the moment.

Here’s the deal. My name is Brooklyn Pierce, I’m fifteen years old, and I am decisionally challenged. Seriously, I can’t remember the last good decision I made. I can remember plenty of crappy ones though. Including that party I threw when my parents were out of town that accidentally burned down a model home. Yeah, not my finest moment, for sure.

But see, that’s why I started a blog. To enlist readers to make my decisions for me. That’s right. I gave up. Threw in the towel. I let someone else decide which book I read for English. And whether or not I accepted an invitation to join the debate team from that cute-in-a-dorky-sort-of-way guy who gave me the Heimlich maneuver in the cafeteria. (Note to self: chew the melon before swallowing it.) I even let them decide who I dated!

Well, it turns out there are some things in life you simply can’t choose or have chosen for you—like who you fall in love with. And now everything’s more screwed up than ever.

Review:

Brooklyn Pierce. High school student, fifteen year old girl, and someone who happens to make a few bad decisions. So what does she do? She creates a blog, that has a poll which she uses to let her blog readers make her decisions for her. From the big things to the small things. She puts her life into her readers hands.

Jessica Brody has some of the most original, fun, and funny, contemporary that I have ever read. Her books are some of my favorites. At least, they are now!
Before this one, I had only read 52 Reasons to Hate My Father of Jessica's contemporary novels, and I really enjoyed it. I was super excited to dig into My Life Undecided and although I didn't like it quite as much as 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, it was still a solid contemporary novel.

At the starting of the book, Brooklyn makes some bad decisions that usually would have bugged me. But, she ends up (at least trying) to do something about it. Of course, her blog readers are not the best at making decisions either.....And Brooklyn still makes some bad decisions afterword's....But I ended up liking Brooklyn's character.
There is a lot of character growth in here, something that I have found Jessica Brody excels in with her contemporary novels.

There are also a bunch of secondary characters that I found myself both rooting for, and groaning for....In this entire book.

Another great contemporary from Jessica Brody. And if you like funny, both light and a bit of heavy contemporary Young Adult then I would definitely recommend this one!