Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I really debated the stars on this book. Honestly, the primary story and the plight of the hotel would probably garner 3 stars in a Disney movie sort of feel good film. However, I simply can't get past Scarlett's relationship with Eric. The story teller is a girl barely fifteen and living a less than exciting life the summer before she starts high school. Her older brother is 18, maybe 19, as he has delayed college a year. This brother befriends a fellow actor, a soon-to-be sophomore at NYU. Scarlett having a crush on this older guy is completely normal, in my opinion. How many girls make it through those early teens without crushing on a senior or a college guy? This college sophomore liking her, though? Creepy. He could be turning 20 at any point and she's barely 15 (birthday occurred at the start of the book) and they hang out in his apartment until 1:30 in the morning, making out? Except, as is mentioned in several places, they are closed mouth kisses. Um, okay...
I almost stopped reading at this point. Almost. I had hopes that this would be addressed in the book, but it wasn't. In fact, no one seemed concerned by her behavior. Spencer, perhaps, cared but I was too weirded out by their too-much-information sibling relationship to be comforted by that.
In the end, a completely implausible but made-for-television quality ending left everyone with a happy life and a successful hotel. It was okay, but nothing that makes me want to read more.
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