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13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
4.0

Cute. This book makes me desperately want to have a crazy artist aunt (which I do have, but she's way more sensible than Ginny's aunt) who will leave me inspirational notes about life and give me money to travel through Europe. Or just in general travel through Europe. Well really I want to do that despite what a cute little, chick lit novel says.

I did like this book. Ginny wasn't my favorite main character ever (I think I've just got a problem with characters named Ginny. Not that I hate Harry Potter Ginny, she just isn't my favorite), but I thought she was pretty realistic. Frankly I wanted the letters from Peg to be longer, because she had a great voice and of course she had interesting stories. The one big qualm I had was the book just sort of ended. There wasn't any closure, any big life lesson I took away from the novel. Which isn't a necessity, but I like that in a young adult novel. Oh well, it was still very well written.