Sloppy Firsts

Jess always looks around at the girls she goes to school with and she wonders why they all look so perfect.  Jess think she was hit with the ugly stick one too many times.  High school would be just a tiny bit easier if she had good looks.  Some of the popular girls at school that Jess like to call "The Clueless Crew" are all perfect; long blonde hair, bight eyes, perfect skin and makeup, the coolest clothes,  and skinny yet curvy in all the right places.  Not to mention, they have balloon boobs. I can agree with Jess on that because thats just not fair.  Im starting to feel bad for Jess but I have a feeling that things will start getting better for her.

Sloppy Firsts

Jess begins talking about her childhood, and it turns out that Jess used to have a bother the same age as Hope's bother.  But coincidently, he did also, but not from a drug overdose like Hope’s brother did.  But when Jess was younger she used to be nice and sweet, and now that she is older, she is not so sweet anymore.  In fact, her father even calls her “Notso,” as in Jessica Not-So-Darling, as her nickname.  If her parents were to throw her a sweet sixteen party this year, Jess would rather not have the party and stay home.  But she remembers when she was little, she used to play with Charlie’s Angel dolls which were her favorite toy.  But since Jess isn’t the prettiest girl at school, she noticed that one of the dolls she played with didn’t have fake eyelashes.  She figured that since this doll was one of the smartest of the three dolls, it must be some kind of rule that you can’t be pretty AND smart, you have to be one or the other.  In Jess’s case, she figured she was just smart.

Sloppy Firsts

It turns out that Hope moved away after Jess's brother dies of a drug overdose.   Now, Jess has to cope with loss of the only friend who understands her too.  She writes diary entries and monthly letters to Hope.  but it turns out that her and her sister are not on good terms so Jess vents in her letters to Hope. but Jess feels frustrated because she excels in school with ease.  I wish i had that problem but I wouldn't complain if I did. Jess feels that she is participating in class only for her college applications. But one day she conveniently hurt her ankle so she replaced her passion of track with journalism, and her  editorials make her a spokesperson for the "non-Upper Crusts" at her high school.

Sloppy Firsts by Megan Mccafferty

This book was reccommended to me by a good friend of mine.  I'm guessing it is nothing like my previous book that I was reading.  This book seems like more of your average teenage girl book and I can already relate to it.  The main character, Jessica, was left in the same old town while her best friend, Hope moved away.  This happened to me right after 8th grade graduation, my best friend moved all the way to Panama.  I can relate to their feelings because it is not always the easiest thing to go through, especially right before I started high school. Jess and Hope made sure to keep in contact by snail mail, phone calls, and email at least once a day.  I'm wondering if it will be like the relationship I had with my friend.