It may be weeks/months until I’m willing to read the rest. I may eventually finish this but I don’t honestly know.

He was a total creep, and Zach was this amazing goody boy that would have been great for Mercedes but I knew this book was going to end badly so I just sort of bailed. When it came time for Angela’s boyfriend to essentially blackmail Mercedes into sex I just had to stop. You know its going to be tough and hard to read and you just keep reading anyway. This book is extremely “out there” and I can applaud any author willing to take the plunge and write about tough or taboo topics like sex/sleeping around where a lot of YA authors preach the “good moral YA” style.īluntly put, this book was like watching a train wreck. I stopped right at 60% because it was taking a turn I was not comfortable reading about. Honestly, I don’t have much to say about this book since I did not actually finish it. Receiving this early and for free in no way effects my personal opinions of this book. DNF FOR PERSONAL REASONSįirst of all I’d like to state I received this in exchange for an honest review. Funny, smart, and true-to-life, FIRSTS is a one-of-a-kind young adult novel about growing up. When Mercedes’ perfect system falls apart, she has to find a way to salvage her reputation and figure out where her heart really belongs in the process. But Mercedes doesn’t bank on Angela’s boyfriend finding out about her services and wanting a turn- or on Zach, who likes her for who she is instead of what she can do in bed. Her absentee mother isn’t home nearly enough to know about Mercedes’ extracurricular activities, and her uber-religious best friend, Angela, won’t even say the word “sex” until she gets married.

Keeping what goes on in her bedroom a secret has been easy- so far.

Mercedes lets the boys get their awkward, fumbling first times over with, and all she asks in return is that they give their girlfriends the perfect first time- the kind Mercedes never had herself. Title & Author: Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynnĭescription: Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom, but only if the guy fulfills a specific criteria: he has to be a virgin. These will be short and give a general feel of the book in terms of recommendation. Mini Reviews are for books I read recently but enough time has past to not remember key details of the story, or I felt there was not enough to talk about for a full in depth review.