The Best Laid Plans

I had mixed feeling about this book when I first started reading it and actually really liked the intro to the book however, I wasn't really liking the vibe on how these high school students felt so pressured to have sex so that they wouldn't be a virgin anymore. You can immediately see how much Andrew is into his best friend Keely and she is just stuck on this whole we are so close and have been best friends since birth kind of thing. The author did a really great job at showing how Andrew adored her, but kept his feelings in check. Everyone in this small town knows everything and everything about everyone and that is the real problem. Keely is celebrating her 18th birthday as a virgin and she is not excited about it because she doesn't want to end high school as the only virgin. Even the most popular girl finally loses hers at Keely's party. Keely ends up having to get a summer job and meets a hot junior in college. She really likes him, but she's shy and nervous since she has never had a boyfriend before. Keely ends up spending a lot of time with this guy named Dean and she tries to hide the fact that she is a virgin and she gets close to having sex with him, but always finds a way out of the situation. She wants to lose her virginity to someone who she can trust so one of her best friends suggest that she sleeps with her best friend Andrew since he's so experienced or so she thought. Her plan to sleep with Andrew falls apart and they struggle to retain that friendship. Eventually at prom night, Keely discovers so many things that she is far from the only virgin still in school and that Andrew is actually crazy in love with her. She rushes to tell him that she has come to the realization that she is in love with him as well before he makes a big mistake as well. I love how these two find each other in the end and finally get their happy ending. I also have to say that I love the fact that the author turns the tables were there were actually so many different people in this small school who really just have the perception that they have slept with someone else for whatever reason and really were still virgins. I feel like this brings some of the pressure off of teens to know that they don't always have to fit into the crowd to be able to fit in and it really shows light on how we keep friendships just because we are in high school. Overall, this book was really good and an easy read.