To Be Mona

Hi! This is book review on To Be Mona!

Author- Kelly Easton
Genre- Fiction

Theme- Be you
Target audience- 12+

I chose 'be you' for the theme because Sage was trying to make herself into a different person. Sage was trying to be someone else, trying to be Mona. I think Sage would have been better off just being herself. This way she would've found friends who love her by being herself and not having friends that like her "fake" self. 

I chose 12+ for the target audience because this book needs you to think past the surface and deeper. Otherwise, you don't get the plot or the characters well enough to understand this book well and enjoy it.

In this book Sage Priestly wants to reinvent herself. Get rid of the extra fat, unpaid bills and the crazy Mum. Sage has a teenage crush on Roger Willis, but him being "Mona's boyfriend" adds another reason to hate and be jealous of Mona. Sage gets an lucky ending but it wasn't how she thought it would be. Vern, Sage's "best friend" starts a fight with Sage. Mona and Sage have a school project together and Mona invites Sage over and some secrets are revealed...

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. At the beginning of the book, it was really well written and the characters were muti-dimensional and had depth. I loved the beginning and if it kept going that way I definitely would've given a rating of 5 stars. Unfortunately, the ending was horrible. I found it to be really rushed and it was really anti-climatic. Mona was really dry and we barely knew anything about her even though she's one of the main characters.

The question of the post is- do you like school projects? I don't mind them, but sometimes they take a long time to do and can be a bit annoying. It also depends on the topic and how we need to display them e.g dioramas, posters etc. What about you? 

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