Popular Vote
And with an assist from me,
To be who you’ll be,
Instead of dreary who you were… uh, are…
AAARRRGGHHH! Still can’t get that song out of my head!
Just wanted to jump in with one last post about Micol Ostow’s cyber launch party for Popular Vote and maybe talk a little about the book too. Again, I must warn: I’ve known Micol for years and years (well, maybe just “years,” we’re not THAT old) so what follows is a completely biased review of a totally enjoyable book.
Popular Vote by Micol Ostow
You’ll have more fun reading this book than you’ll have putting lipstick on a pig.
Not that I imagine giving a pig a makeover to be all that enjoyable a way to spend a Saturday night. And I strongly doubt that the pig would enjoy it either. Although Miss Piggy seems to like the dress up. Which reminds me, the L.A. County Fair is in town. They’ve been running this hysterical ad campaign for a few years about L.A. Girls at the fair who text while bumper car driving, bake an entirely organic pie from leaves and twigs, and pretty much skewer all kinds of other L.A. type traditions in the ads.
But I seem to have gotten off point.
Popular Vote takes place in a small town and tells the story of the mayor’s daughter, Bristol … I mean Erin Bright. Erin’s dating the incumbent class president who is once again running unopposed. When an issue involving big oil comes to the small town, Erin finds herself disheartened by her boyfriend’s hand’s off response and decides that the only way to save a beloved field from becoming a gas station is by throwing her hat into the ring and running against the guy she’s dating. If only she’d talked to her mayor father for some campaign advice first.
Real world hot topics meet relationship politics in this entertaining read about being true to your heart even if it means going up against the ones you love. Once again, it’s a book that takes a serious topic and presents it in a lighthearted manner. (Can you tell those are the kinds of books I like. Which is why I write them.) I don’t want to give too much away, but the thing I love the most about this book is how Micol handles Erin’s campaign supporters and, more specifically, those who SHOULD be supporters, but aren’t. Soon after Erin makes her decision to run she finds out who has her back, who doesn’t, and who realizes politics is not always an easy choice between this guy or that gal.
Considering the current political climate, I can’t think of a more topical teen read.
So, go NOW, check out the party and comment to win a FULL SET OF DRAMA! BOOKS Signed by me.