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I feel a little guilty giving this book 2 stars. The author is young, and obviously a very nice, driven person who will go far. I wouldn't want her to stumble across this and feel badly. But I use this website to keep track of my reads and my thoughts, so I had to be honest. And then I saw that Steven Spielberg had bought the rights to her book, and I didn't feel so bad anymore.

I picked this book up because I was looking for something quick and mindless. It had such great ratings, I thought this would be a great read. But it was formulaic and boring, and a bit too sweet. The author was just too nice, she didn't seem like a real teenager... Ironic, since this was a memoir. It also started off on a bad note... This girl seems to have a great head on her shoulders, but the first chapter involved a middle schooler dieting. She included pictures, this is not a girl with a weight problem. I guess this upsets me a lot more now that I have a daughter and do not want to see her have this struggle with her body. Everything after was a bit boring and couldn't really hold my attention, and it had to force myself to finish it.

ETA: I've read other reviewers call this book emotional manipulative, and I think that's right. The author just didn't feel real. Maybe some of her more negative thoughts were edited out, but I think I would have connected with and enjoyed this book much more if they were included.