Status Updates From Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Get...

I'm really liking the way Sofi wavers between "I'm here and everything sucks" and "I'm here so I guess I'll make the best of it," even from the very beginning of her journey. It's really hard to find book characters who I could actually see as my friend, or a peer who I would look up to in real life, but Sofi Mendoza is definitely a character like that.

I'm liking this a lot more than I did two years ago when I tried to read it. Maybe I'm just in a different mindset, or maybe it's because I'm a graduating senior, the same as the main characters in the book, and even though I would never sneak off to Mexico, or even go to a bar, I can see more where Sofi is coming from now.

I started reading this a few years ago in the Dominican Republic but didn't feel like my first time in a foreign country was a great time to read a book about a detainee in a Latin American country. I'm going to give it another try now.

Wish I had more time to read!

The beginning was a bit slow & the characters' dialogue was stilted; Sofi & her friends as characters felt very much like an adult's preconceived notion of how teens talk & act. I am now at the point where Sofi is stuck in Mexico & realizing her parents have lied. Now the book is getting interesting as she struggles with life in a different world from her own.

Finally, she has been blessed. The Gods have granted her common sense!!

Seriously, Sofi is pissing me off. The things I do for school.