by Janette Rallison
YA, contemporary
265 pages
published: 2010
4 of 5 stars
About
Her whole life, Alexia Garcia has been told that she looks just like pop star Kari Kingsley, and one day when Alexia's photo filters through the Internet, she's offered a job to be Kari's double. This would seem like the opportunity of a lifetime, but Alexia's mother has always warned her against celebrities. Rebelliously, Alexia flies off to L.A. and gets immersed in a celebrity life. Alexia must stay true to herself, which is hard to do when you are pretending to be somebody else! - from Goodreads
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I love reading Rallison's books because they are fun, easy to like, moral, and uplifting. That isn't to say they don't deal with real issues, but somehow she keeps them from being dark or overbearing. Quite the reverse. This one might well be my second favorite of hers. (My Fair Godmother would be hard to upstage.)
Things I enjoyed about My Double Life:
- Alexia was a real girl to me. And not just a real girl, but a girl who wanted to be a good person.
- The plot, through all it's twists and surprises and even all that seemed unlikely at first, turned out very believable to me.
- That in the midst of trying to do the best thing, Alexia didn't always do the best thing. Not because she was weak, but because sometimes the questions are hard to answer. Sometimes "right" gets clouded and confused. Sometimes "right" has more than one answer.
- The adults weren't just stupid and uninvolved. I appreciate when teenage characters comes to realize that their parents/advisers/adults might actually know what they are talking about.
- The secondary characters were not flat people. They had their own issues and strengths and often surprised me.
- There was romance, heartbreak, misunderstandings, tantrums, epiphanies and witty conversations. Everything needful for a good time.
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