Book Review: All You Get is Me

Title: All You Get Is Me
Series: No
Author(s): Yvonne Prinz
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages: 336
Publishing Date: January 1, 2011
Summary:  What happens when a city girl is transplanted onto a ramshackle organic farm in the middle of nowhere? Everything. 

Sixteen-year-old Roar has been yanked from her city life and suddenly she’s a farm girl, albeit a reluctant one, selling figs at the farmers' market and developing her photographs in a rickety shed. And then she witnesses a crime that will throw the whole community into an uproar. Caught among the lure of a troublemaking friend, her love for a brooding boy, and her complicated feelings about her father’s human rights crusade, Roar is going to have to tackle it all. And with a camera around her neck, she’s capturing it all, too. 

Yvonne Prinz and her novel The Vinyl Princess have ignited the teen blogosphere and entertainment media. Once again, she’s taken the pulse of culture and emerged with a book that is timely, quirky, and unforgettable.

My Thoughts:  When I first started this book is seemed to draw on slowly especially because the main character seemed a little whinny since she had moved two years ago and she was still mad, but as I read further I was drawn in by the realistic three dimensional characters with quite interesting names! Aurora(Roar) was a great character with her avid love of photographs carrying along several sub-plots.  The main plot to was slow but fast. There was no unraveling mystery or surprise but there were bits of random information that were relevant to the characters but did little to affect the overall plot except for shock factor.  The romance though was worthy of a Nicholas Sparks novel with its interesting complexity that seemed to burn over every problem. Overall this book started slow then speed along into a controversial debate that didn't have much mystery but lots of little plots to carry along complex characters that evolved together to form a great romance.


Overall Rating: 4.5/5

One word/phrase sum up: great