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The Second Virginity of Suzy Green

The Second Virginity of Suzy Greenby Sara HantzWell golly! I bought this book back in August, didn't read it until October and just realized now that I never wrote about it! [Note to Self: Do NOT count this book in your 2009 tally at the end of the year - you read this in 2008!] I don't know what happened, I rather liked the book too. Normally I am pretty good at getting a review up fairly soon after I finish reading a book. Hmm. Well, here I go now...Suzy was a party girl, an "almost-goth" girl, the black sheep in the family. That is until the death of her sister and a move to a new town. Now Suzy is determined to be the good girl like her older sister Rosie was. New town, new school, new friends. None of them would know of her bad girl past.Suzy's new friends belong to a Virginity Club at school. Even though she's not technically a virgin, Suzy joins as well, nothing was going to stand in her way of hiding her past. Until her ex Ryan shows up in the same town. Now Suzy's past life is in danger of becoming known and her new friends would likely hate her for lying to them this entire time. But at some point the lies just blossom into something bigger than they were intended and it takes all she has to go along with it.I loved Suzy and her internal debates and her determination to change her life. Though her changes were more or less for the wrong reasons, she made an effort to change for the better. The whole Virginity Club thing sort of creeped me out, sounded way too cultish for my liking and the guy in charge was strange. Do people really do that?This wasn't a long read, but it was a fulfilling read. I did not feel like it was a book of empty fluff. This was a book that taught a lesson without banging you over the head with it or preaching. The author did a great job of portraying Suzy's feelings and inner turmoil over what was going on in a very readable way. I felt what she felt. I laughed when she laughed and I cried at the end when she cried. I would certainly read more from this author.