BOOK REVIEW: SOPHIE BY JENNIE SARGAM

Sophie

by Jennie Sargam

288 pages

Published May 29th 2015

MY GOODREADS RATING 2/5 STARS

(Thanks to LuLu Publishing Services and NetGalley, I received an ebook copy of this book for free to review.)

GOODREADS SYNOPSIS:

Sophie Banks has worked hard for what she has: top of her senior class in high school, gainfully employed, and hopelessly in love with the handsome Eric Lawrence. With graduation a mere three months away, Sophie's life is on track until a family brawl turns her world upside-down. Between being exposed as having a less-than-ideal home life and faced with a principal who is fed up with her antics, Sophie is forced to live with a guardian, the strictest teacher from her parochial school, Ms. Brooke Jennings. Balancing her new life while hiding her old, Sophie is overwhelmed. On one lonesome drive home she's involved in a life-changing car accident. Brooke's loyalty through it all has Sophie seeing her guardian in a whole new light-as the mother she desperately needs. If only Sophie can get the rest of her family to feel the same. When Brooke moves in, love and loyalty will be tested, but will Sophie get the happy ending she's fought for?

MY THOUGHTS:

At first I was really enjoying this book because it had a great sense of mystery. About 25% through the book though, I felt more confused than anything else. The story was just so  unrealistic I kept saying huh? For example, how does a teacher take in a student as their guardian? 

I feel like this book could have went so many different ways, but the way it did go just wasn’t for me. I felt the story was just a bit too rushed and certain scenarios could have been explained more clearly. Sophie’s attitude toward her teacher really upset me, I didn’t see the gratefulness I thought would have occurred at first.

     Overall I really feel like this author has wonderful promise and I would definitely read other books by her. I think her sense of imagination is wonderful. This book just wasn’t for me.