Book Review: 52 Reasons to Hate My Father by Jessica Brody

Borrowed Review Copy from Library

52 Reasons To Hate My Father is first and foremost a fun, contemporary read.  Lexington Larrabee is an heiress and a troublemaker.  But in a few days she will turn 18 and her trust fund will be all hers...all 25 million dollars of it and she already has ways she's going to spend it with no rules and no one telling her what to do.  That all changes though when she crashes her new car into a convenience store after a night of drinking and her father has to bail her out of trouble.....again!  Her punishment?  52 weeks of minimum wage jobs that once completed, she will have earned her trust fund back. Of course her father has also hired a 20 year old babysitter who is the exact opposite of Lexi and whom she must see everyday and write a status report every week. And did I mention this babysitter is a guy and 20 years old and has great abs? That could be interesting! :)

Lexington definitely reminded me of Paris Hilton or Nicole Richey back when all those two girls did was party and get in trouble and be famous for doing nothing.  Girls like that are hard to relate to and in the beginning of this book, so was Lexi.  After a while though, you been to see the real girl under the facade of partying and causing trouble.  The jobs and the status reports on each are so humorous and it's interesting to see Lexi change as the jobs change as well.  Of course, there's also Luke who is a good guy.  Cute and understanding, maybe he's just what Lexi needs to help open her eyes to the real world. 

Can she really finish all 52 jobs?  Does she really hate her father?  This book is so fun and funny but beyond that it's about second chances, unconditional love and being to true to one's true self.