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I just love Julie Murphy’s way of describing small town Texas high school life. Willow Dean is working at a fast food joint, swimming at the pool, crushing on a guy, and dealing with a mom who runs a beauty pageant. Also, her best friend has a new friend, Callie, who’s kind of a jerk (putting it mildly.) But things are looking up when Beau, her coworker who she totally likes, likes her back, and they start meeting up late at night to kiss. But when she and Beau see each other outside of their clandestine meetings and neither acknowledges the relationship, things quickly fall apart. Add that to Willow Dean’s mother refusing to accept that her daughter loves her body just the way it is, and Willow Dean decides to take matters into her own hands, entering a beauty pageant to prove to the world she’s confident in her own skin.

I absolutely love Julie Murphy’s characters. She writes strong, confident girls. Complicated friend relationships and high school situations you can really picture. The pageant moments were fun. I absolutely ate up every chapter of this.