Scarlett Epstein Hates it Here
By Anna Breslaw
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
Personal Rating: 4/10

 Scarlett is a fanfiction writer. She spends most of her time with her online friends, writing about fictional characters.It may not be a very popular activity, but it makes her happy. Then her favorite TV show is canceled and her long time crush is sucked into the dark hole that is the popular group. Feeling alone with no TV characters to rant about, Scarlett turns to writing fanfiction about her classmates. It seems harmless at first, but what happens when the people in her stories find out what she really thinks of them?

Overall, this story is very hilarious. I was immediately intrigued by this synopsis, it sounded like that old Disney Channel show, Read it and Weep. And I did actually enjoy the fanfiction part of this book, it was a story line I would actually read. However, I felt like what should have been a big part of the story climax was just a short part of the book. I felt like the author was trying really hard to make these characters seem unique, but it ended up with them just seeming outrageously unrealistic to me. I felt like this is a book where the author was just trying to stuff as much diversity in as she could, whether it related to the story or not. This is a very modern book, so there are a lot of modern pop culture references, and while it added to the humor, I think all the references just really dated the book. I can't see it being relevant past the end of this year.

I would have liked to give this book a higher rating, but in the end it just focused too much on subjects I didn't agree with, and was full of unnecessary vulgar language and inappropriate slang.