Mafia Girl Review

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Title: Mafia Girl

Author: Deborah Blumenthal

Publish Date: March 1 2014

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Genre: YA Contemporary

Pages: 256

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Synopsis: (Via Netgalley)

"What's in a name? Everything… if you have my name." At her exclusive Manhattan high school,  seventeen-year-old Gia is the most hated/loved girl in school. Why? Her father doesn't have a boss. He is the boss—the capo di tutti cappi, boss of all bosses. Not that Gia cares. But life gets complicated when she meets a cop she calls  "Officer Hottie" and feels a suprising  chemistry. Then Vogue magazine wants to feature Gia in a fashion spread about real-life bad girls. On top of this, she's running for class president. Can Gia step out from under her dad's shadow and show everyone there's more to her than "Mafia Girl?"

Mafia Girl follows Gia, who is the daughter of a don, who falls in love with a police officer. This certain police officer meets Gia after arresting her and her friend for reckless driving, and as soon as Gia sets her eyes on him she immediately is drawn. In a way you could describe this as lust and/or love it depends on how you interpret the way Gia thinks about him.

I found Mafia Girl to be a great novel for teenagers, such as myself. The characters all had difficult problems and anyone could relate to them, and I found that amazing. Gia was trying to search for herself and live up to expectations, Clive, a secondary character, is trying to contemplate the meaning of his own life, and Gia's family who try to stick together through the good, the bad, and everyone's thoughts of them.

The book does not just circle around Gia's love for "Officer Hottie", which made the book even more like-able. With YA contemporary readers see the main character just thinks constantly about the love of his/her life and everything else fades, but that is the complete opposite of what happens in this book. This book holds many morals with all of the things Gia has to go through in school, her home, and her love life. Mafia Girl does not include much about the mafia throughout the entire book. In the middle the mafia was mentioned less and less than in the beginning and the end. I believe that the amount off mafia in this book was just the perfect amount and was not thrown overboard.

I would recommend this book to anyone, because of all the relate able life problems and how the characters come to face and solve them.


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