2018, Clarion
420 pgs.
YA CRF
Finished 8/30/18
Goodreads rating: 3.97 - 1887 ratings
My rating: 3
Setting: contemporary anywhere, usa
First line/s: "I'm not a particularl;y good daughter, but I sat through a month of therapy for my parents' sake."
My comments: I don't know why I didn't like this more than I did. It was written in an interesting way - somewhat like a script or a play, much of the time. It was about teenage angst, normal and abnormal. It was about faith and religion, friendship and family, who-cares-what-anyone-thinks, and uncertainty. And although I hate reality TV, this was a fun way to go about telling the story of a troubled teen. Maybe there just seems to be too much overtelling in places, or that sometimes it rambled too much?
Goodreads synopsis: The only thing 17-year-old Jane Sinner hates more than failure is pity. After a personal crisis and her subsequent expulsion from high school, she’s going nowhere fast. Jane’s well-meaning parents push her to attend a high school completion program at the nearby Elbow River Community College, and she agrees, on one condition: she gets to move out.
Jane tackles her housing problem by signing up for House of Orange, a student-run reality show that is basically Big Brother, but for Elbow River Students. Living away from home, the chance to win a car (used, but whatever), and a campus full of people who don't know what she did in high school… what more could she want? Okay, maybe a family that understands why she’d rather turn to Freud than Jesus to make sense of her life, but she'll settle for fifteen minutes in the proverbial spotlight.
As House of Orange grows from a low-budget web series to a local TV show with fans and shoddy T-shirts, Jane finally has the chance to let her cynical, competitive nature thrive. She'll use her growing fan base, and whatever Intro to Psychology can teach her, to prove to the world—or at least viewers of substandard TV—that she has what it takes to win.
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