Book Review

    So Not Happening is a fiction book written by Jenny B. Jones.  It deals with a girl having to go through many changes, which she really does not like.  It shows how she get through them and deals with all the things going on in her life.
    Bella Kirkwood has just had her mom get remarried after only being separated only months before that! To make things worse they met online and haven’t seen each other in person, but at that moment they were about to say their “I do’s” to one another! 
    Her new stepfather lives in a shabby house in Oklahoma.  He has a very embarrassing job, and has a secret that she is determined to find out.  Where as her real father lives in the big city and is loaded!  He always has a new girl with him, which caused the divorce, but now he thinks he may have found his true love!  She hates this new lady, and she thinks she is keeping secrets.  On top of everything else, she found out that her boyfriend was cheating on her with her best friend!  So much for those guys!
    Bella had gotten of to a bad start in Oklahoma.  She has a stuck up newspaper editor that always is getting on her case too.  When she is doing some stuff for him she over hears a conversation with some football guys and she knows now that something fishy is going on with them.  She tries to find out, but her editor keeps telling her to leave it.  She can’t though, because she thinks it may have something to do with some deaths and injuries that have occurred.  Bella is starting to think that  there is nothing that doesn’t seem suspicious in this town!
    She also has to try to get along with her two new stepbrothers that came along with her new father.  The older brother is always just trying to make her mad, so she does that back.  It seems like everything is just getting worse and worse as her life goes on!  She has no one to talk because it seems like everyone hates her.  Her mom doesn’t have time for her as she is busy with a new job, college and trying to be a mother.  She doesn’t like her new dad or brothers, so she can’t talk to them.  No one at school wants to talk to her, because they think she is a rude rich girl.
    Bella finally makes some new friends.  They are nice people and they help her get through all this madness.  She can also help them with some of their problems too!  When she finally seems to get close to her rude, but cute editor, she seems to mess it up by not listening to him.  She finally realized why he was so stern about her not getting to involved with that mystery.
    Everything in the end is good though.  Everything seems to work out and she gets a new, more trustworthy boyfriend.  New more reliable and kind friends.  She also really gets her new family.  Her mother starts to be more loving and supportive.  She actually starts to get along with her new father.  She and her brother eventually worked things out and now they can actually stand each other.  Her new little brother starts to open up to her too, because she saved him from being bullied in school.
    Bella has had many secrets to find out.  She had her new step dad, her dad’s girlfriends, the football team, and many more.  She has other stuff to deal with too.  When everything looks like she got it figured out though, she gets herself into a bad spot.
    The main character, Bella, seems to be a strong girl.  She has to go through a lot o changes in just a short time.  She is a very spunky girl that doesn’t listen to people when they tell her not to do something that she really wants to find out the secret about.  I admire that she does ask the Lord for help, even though sometimes we are seem to struggle with our faith.  She tries her hardest to get things right, but it never seems to work.  Everything just gets more miserable.  She teaches us how you an get through many situations and how to deal with a lot of things.  In the end she comes out on top though, because she gets closer to all of her family, gets better true friends, and maybe even a new boyfriend, if only she could figure him out.  She gets a closer relationship to God.
    I really enjoyed this book! It is an inspiring book in how it teaches you so many lessons and how this girl has dealt with them.  It teaches you how God can help.  Family and true friends are always there for you too, even if you think they keep annoying or ignoring you, it’s just that they have lives to live too!  This book had interesting and very well described settings.  It has many situations that could actually be happening in someone's life for real.  This book is an action packed book that you will never want to put down!  It always has you begging to read more!
    It has really great settings in the book.  You can clearly picture it in your mind and she writes with such good details, you feel like you are right there with them!  The whole story has very realistic characters also.  It was good how she had her main character develop and change throughout the story.  It also has a fantastic pace.  You were always interested in it.  Some things are not fully resolved though at the end, but that is because you have to read the other two books to find out!  At the end of the whole series though, everything is resolved.  This book is more for girls though obviously so I wouldn’t recommend this to guys.  I do believe every girl would highly enjoy this book!