Sun-Kissed (Smart Novels: Vocabulary) Book

This book was decent, but pretty predictable. It's about a teenage girl Kristen who everyone thinks is perfect. She's pretty and popular. Her friends are getting annoyed with her because she never wants to hang out with them. She has a good reason though,her parents have gotten divorced and she has so much on her mind that taking about the latest gossip isn't interesting. Kristen likes to surf. Somehow her friends guilt her into going to a party where everything changes. To add to her list of problems, she almost gets raped at the party. And when she tries to confront her friend about it her friend is jealous and calls her a liar. From there things just keep spiraling down. She is no longer popular and has to go to group for people with anger issues. Although reluctant at first she later finds true friends that help her find her way back to normal.

This book is about being true to yourself because you can only keep up an act for so long. If Kristen didn't ever pretend to care about the things her friends talked about, she would've never felt like she had to lie to her friends about surfing. It's so easy to act like a different person than you really are just to please others, but you trying to please the wrong people because they won't let you be you.