Waiting on Wednesday (17): Confessions of an Angry Girl by Louise Rozett

From Goodreads:

Rose Zarelli, self-proclaimed word geek and angry girl, has some CONFESSIONS to make... #1: I'm livid all the time. Why? My dad died. My mom barely talks. My brother abandoned us. I think I'm allowed to be irate, don't you?
#2: I make people furious regularly. Want an example? I kissed Jamie Forta, a badass guy who "might" be dating a cheerleader. She is now enraged and out for blood. Mine.
#3: High school might as well be Mars. My best friend has been replaced by an alien, and I see red all the time. (Mars is red and "seeing red" means being angry-get it?)
Here are some other vocab words that describe my life: Inadequate. Insufferable. Intolerable.
(Don't know what they mean? Look them up yourself.) (Sorry. That was rude.)

Publisher: Harlequin
Publication Date: August 28th, 2012
Amazon, Goodreads, Author's website

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So many female protagonists nowadays seem so docile, rarely expressing intense emotions unless the author wants to make her seem "edgy" or emotional. What I like about this book is that, right from the start, Rose describes herself as angry. And it sounds like she should be! She has things in her life she has a right to be upset about, and Rozett has written Rose to experience more real emotions than are often found in female main characters today.

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Waiting on Wednesday is hosted over at Breaking the Spine.