Carpe Diem
By Autumn Cornwell
16-year-old Vassar Spore, who has never done anything unplanned in her life, is forced to trek across South East Asia with her hippie Grandma Gerd and a sideburn-porting, Chinese cowboy, called Hanks for her summer vacation - and that's just the beginning!
Faced with extreme circumstances, (including venomous creepy crawlies and the 70-year-old ear-nibbler) Vassar has to soldier on and finish the novel she's writing, and discover the "BIG SECRET".
Carpe Diem is a very funny book and the story kept me hooked until the very last page.
That said, I found that Grandma Gerd was overly hippie-almost a caricature, so I found her hard to believe. Vassar was too prim and stuck up and she changed at the very end - not the middle, but by then, she had already gotten the guy.
Carpe Diem is available for purchase at amazon.com
Feisty chick-o-meter: 6/10
Age rating: 5/10
Rating: 6/10
Stand alone or series: Stand alone
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