Review: Mafia Girl by Deborah Blumenthal

Genre: YA

Pages: 256

Release Date: March 1st, 2014

Summary:

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?

My Review: 

*ARC Provided by NetGalley*

Gia is a 17 year rich girl, leaving in Manhattan, goes to a private school, she can shop or travel whenever she wants. But, her family is not the “typical” family, her dad is the main boss in the Mafia. At the beginning we meet Gia, as her and her friend are caught ditching school, driving without license going shoe shopping. She instantly starts crushing on the cop that pulled them over, but that is a big no no, in her family. It took me awhile to get into the book, but when I did it was close to the end. There were times when I caught myself laughing at what Gia was doing, not at the situations, but at how Gia was handling the situations. She is the normal Italian girl who is stubborn and knows how to get what she wants. She will not sit around and wait for things to fall into her lap.


There were times during the book, when I felt bad for her because all she wanted was to have a normal family, and be a normal teenager. During some spots, I thought things were missing, that’s why I only gave it a score of 3 out 5. Even though, I gave it that rating. Don’t think that I didn’t like it. I did, I laughed, cried, even at times found myself giving Gia advice :)

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