Emma Chastain

Chloe Snow is baaaack!!! I can't tell you how happy I was to start reading this book. It was a breath of fresh air for me. Chloe talks in her diaries in a way that makes me feel like I'm living in her world rather than just reading about it. It's 400 pages and feels like 50 because of how light and easy it is to fall into Chloe's head.

In this 3rd book Chloe and Grady are officially official. But now that Chloe's boy problems are over, that's not going to magically fix her family. And since Miss Murphy is moving in and Chloe's mom randomly reappears, life in both her houses is tragically complicated.

Also, there's school. You didn't think Reese was going to melt into the background after Chloe started dating her ex-boyfriend, did you?? That feud is still going strong.

There are so many things I love about this book and this series, that I think I'm going to have to list them:

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Chloe Snow is the adorable, funny, awkward, embarrassing, lol-inducing character I've been missing in my life since Ruby Oliver and Kelsey Finkelstein. Also, her mom can pound salt or whatever that saying is that means-- GO F*^k Yourself.


Chloe Snow is one of those voices that will stay with me long after I've read all the books in her series (which I definitely will!). She's one of those hilariously naive, honest, endearing, and addicting narrators. I couldn't get enough of her 14-year-old view of the world!!

In Confessions of a High School Disaster, Chloe Snow takes us through her entire Freshman year of high school. Her mother leaves for Mexico to "write", she makes a vow to lose her kissing virginity, she has some epic misunderstandings, she auditions for the school acapella group and the high school musical, she gets a maybe-not-really boyfriend, and her reliable dad does something utterly unreliable.

I loved Chloe's take on her world. This book reads young and immature, but the character is, in fact, young and immature. If you don't like reading younger voices who ramble and word vomit, you probably won't like this book. If you like LOLing about high school hijinks and cringe-worthy situations, this is totally your book!!

I didn't even realize how much I missed reading about a character like Chloe until I started this book. She reminded me of Ruby Oliver ([b:The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver|301022|The Boyfriend List 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver (Ruby Oliver, #1)|E. Lockhart|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1342343845s/301022.jpg|292089]) & Kelsey Finkelstein ([b:Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters|11699323|Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters|Meredith Zeitlin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1314883523s/11699323.jpg|16646431]) mixed with Rose Zarelli ([b:Confessions of an Angry Girl|13515025|Confessions of an Angry Girl (Confessions, #1)|Louise Rozett|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1334261472s/13515025.jpg|19070990]) & Freshman Devi ([b:Gimme a Call|6693333|Gimme a Call|Sarah Mlynowski|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1384374692s/6693333.jpg|6888829]). These characters get into my heart, make me LOL, and there is a void when they aren't in my reading life.

My fave things about the 1st book:
-Chloe has a Boston terrier named Snickers (I'm a proud BT owner and can confirm that they are indeed farting machines).
-Loved the diary format. It totally worked here & made it hard to put down-- I kept telling myself "one more entry and I'll stop for the night".
-Lightness-- I read a lot of books about SERIOUS subjects, so sometimes it refreshes me to read about things that are just a normal level of serious.
-It brought me back to how I used to obsess about the DUMBEST things. By dumb I mean things that I thought were so important and obsess-worthy which actually turned out to be a giant waste of my time-- but no one could've convinced me of that back then!!
-Chloe's epic Googling skills-- Googling example: "no boyfriend virgin happy anyway". So much LOL, and also I totally would've Googled such things if I had access to internet as a 9th grader.

This book series is so me, that I can't believe it wasn't on my radar before. Upon finishing the first book, I immediately started the 2nd one!!

OVERALL: LOVEDDDD!! Chloe Snow is so cute and funny-- she's what I've been missing in my reading life for a while. If you like coming-of-age cringe-worthy oversharing, Chloe is going to be your girl. I will definitely be reading the rest of the series (book 3 is in the works, so YAY!!) & you should too!!

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