The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls by Julie Schumacher - NOT RECOMMENDED

Schumacher, Julie The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls 240 pg. Delacorte Press, 2012. Sexual Content- PG-13; Violence-G; Language- PG-13. $16.99. Being a book lover and being a member of a book club, I was intrigued by this title. Unfortunately, the title ended up being the only intriguing thing about the book. Adrienne and 3 other girls are forced for various reasons to be in a book club with their mothers over the summer. Strange friendships are formed as they meet throughout the summer. Adrienne is narrating the story the whole time and along the way discovers a few things about herself.
I initially thought the book might have a Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants feel but the girls' relationships with each other were weird, awkward, and confusing. There was a strange twist at the end, the writing style was stilted and choppy, and there were random scenes (girls kissing each other) that could have been completely left out. One thing I did like about the book was that at the beginning of each chapter, a literary term (i.e. foreshadowing, epiphany, climax etc.) was defined and the content of that chapter dealt specifically with that term. Most definitely not a keeper though. MS/HS- NOT RECOMMENDED. Whitney, Library-Teacher.