Hallie Mayhew's single-minded focus her senior year of high school has been to earn money and win the prestigious Verhaag scholarship that will allow her to go to a college of her choosing. Hal would love to get away from her bickering divorced parents and her tandem jobs for each of their businesses-her father's pest control company and her mother's pond cleaning service. However, the Verhaag scholarship has a streak of giving the money to a Verhaag descendant, and this year a new student and direct descendant has just joined her class. Hal scrambles to pad her resume with extracurricular activities that she doesn't have time for, but a loophole in the Verhaag judging rules might give her a second chance at the scholarship if she can only get her next-door neighbor, Spencer Salazar to submit an entry as well.
Pest is an entertaining contemporary young adult book with a fresh plot and interesting characters. Hal's character is dealing with a lot. Her divorced parents are pulling her in two different directions, her jobs are taking up all of her free time and don't exactly make her popular and the scholarship competition is taking up all of her headspace. Luckily, Hal's friends help her with her endeavors. Hal's story allowed me to see the crazy amount of pressure that many teens are under. Through the story Hal realized just what life is all about, other ways of achieving her dreams and dropping her laser focus for a little bit to try and enjoy life. Hal deals with all of this with as much grace as possible. I enjoyed seeing Hal and Spencer's relationship develop, it was very natural and wasn't the main plot in the story. Overall, Pest is an intriguing, cute and fun young adult story with touches of mystery and romance.
This book was received for free in return for an honest review.
Pest is an entertaining contemporary young adult book with a fresh plot and interesting characters. Hal's character is dealing with a lot. Her divorced parents are pulling her in two different directions, her jobs are taking up all of her free time and don't exactly make her popular and the scholarship competition is taking up all of her headspace. Luckily, Hal's friends help her with her endeavors. Hal's story allowed me to see the crazy amount of pressure that many teens are under. Through the story Hal realized just what life is all about, other ways of achieving her dreams and dropping her laser focus for a little bit to try and enjoy life. Hal deals with all of this with as much grace as possible. I enjoyed seeing Hal and Spencer's relationship develop, it was very natural and wasn't the main plot in the story. Overall, Pest is an intriguing, cute and fun young adult story with touches of mystery and romance.
This book was received for free in return for an honest review.
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