A review by mdpenguin
Amanda by Jennifer Stevenson

funny lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

 I hadn't read the rest of the series and could tell that there was more of a backstory that I didn't have but I don't think it really mattered. This book is great fun and I think that I might want to be Cricket when I grow up. Even though this is a light, fun book, the characters are all very well defined and believable and their personalities more or less make sense with who they are and where they come from. I think that you can tell that Stevenson has a background in counseling because the psychological issues are so well detailed and make sense with the characters' back stories, and the things that they do to deal with them don't fall back on pop-psych cliches even where they easily could have. I probably would peek in on this series every once in a while when I was feeling like I needed a bright pick-me-up, but I found that the publisher is giving away the first book for free so I might continue with it a little longer.