Ratings

Content Ratings based on a 0-5 scale where
0 = no objectionable content and
5 = an excessive or disturbing level of content

Guide to Rating System

LANGUAGE

VIOLENCE

SEXUAL CONTENT

ADULT THEMES

Rating Explanation

Language:  The B word is used more than a handful of times.  Frequent mild swearing (hell, damn, ass), profanity, and terms such as piss and suck.  The phrase “dicked her out” is used.

Violence:  A convenience store is held up by a man with a gun.  There are hostages.

Sexual Content:  Guys are somebody if the popular girl makes out with them.  People are dancing MTV style, gyrating on the dance floor.  Someone talks of bumping crotches.  “It’s no wonder everyone on the debate team is still a virgin.”  Kids playing truth or dare make out – one couple for 20 seconds, the other locked in the bathroom with the lights off.  Someone asks someone else how many people she has slept with.  She confesses to being a virgin.  A couple kisses and his hands are “everywhere”.  There is kissing.

Adult Themes:  Brooklyn is involved with trespassing, under-age drinking and arson.  She is taken to jail.  She has a hangover.  High school kids smoke cigarettes.  There is more under-age drinking of champagne.  A girl’s dad is arrested for stealing his client’s money.  Brooklyn’s sister takes a drug to help her “deal better” with school pressures.  She overdoses and is taken by ambulance to the hospital.

Synopsis

Brooklyn just cannot seem to help herself.  Bad decisions seem to come absolutely naturally.  When she is arrested for trespassing, arson and under-aged drinking, life comes to a screeching halt.  Being grounded for life and doing community service are nothing compared to being socially snubbed by your best friend and losing your social life.  Brooklyn decides that enough is enough.  She is going to quit making decisions for herself and instead, blog to the world and have them decide the things that she should do.  It seems like the perfect solution.  Or is it?  Would you put your fate into the hands of blog readers?

The premise of this book is fun.  It has a very contemporary setting and we probably all have known somebody exactly like the main characters.  This book has a very high school feel to it and took me right back to all the exploits of so many people I went to school with.  This book is labeled YA (ages 15-25).  I would recommend the upper end of that spectrum based on content.