Tabitha might be the only girl in the history of the world who actually gets less popular when she gets hot. But her so-called friends say she's changed, and they've dropped her flat. Now Tab has no one to tell about the best and worst thing that has ever happened to her: Joe, who spills his most intimate secrets to her in their nightly online chats. Joe, whose touch is so electric, it makes Tab wonder if she could survive an actual kiss. Joe, who has Tabitha brimming with the restless energy of falling in love. Joe, who is someone else's boyfriend. Just when Tab is afraid she'll burst from keeping the secret of Joe inside, she finds Life by Committee. The rules of LBC are simple: tell a secret, receive an assignment. Complete the assignment to keep your secret safe. Tab likes it that the assignments push her to her limits, empowering her to live boldly and go further than she'd ever go on her own. But in the name of truth and bravery, how far is too far to go?
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Hmm, there was a lot I dug about this, especially the depictions of the private, intimate nature of online chat secrets. I thought the “Life by Committee” concept was interesting, and I liked Tabitha's depictions of how it made her feel to have strangers cheering her on, even when she didn't necessarily want to do the things they were encouraging her to do.
The IRL aspects seemed less well-defined than the online ones.
Still, it was a page-turner, and I think a lot of teens will really like the online romance aspect. Not necessarily tween-friendly–drugs & non-explicit sex.
