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Title: Life by Committee
Author: Corey Ann Haydu
Narrator: Allyson Ryan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-13-14
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Teens, Romance & Friendship
Publisher's Summary:
Some secrets are too good to keep.
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?
Members Reviews:
This is actually, exactly what it's like to be a teenager in Vermont
The Plot in a Sentence:
Suddenly being the âhot chickâ in her small VT town isnât making Tabitha any friends - but everything changes when she discovers an online community that tells her exactly how to live.
Why I Read It:
It takes place in a small town in Vermont. I was a teenager in a small town in Vermont. It sucked. Now I want to read about it.
Why It Rocked:
The Vermont-ness. Oh, man, did Haydu nail it. The cold, the isolation, the way everyone is sort of a hippie, the fact that the only things to do as a teenager are hang out in coffee shops, go snowboarding, or get high. I couldnât have related more to Tabbyâs sense of feeling trapped by the mountains and dreaming of a glamorous life in NYC and something bigger and better than her tiny town and little high school full of people sheâs known forever. That was me. That was me SO HARD.
(At one point, a character name-drops the town next to mine. As the place to go to be a stoner. Hah. But also, true.)
The hot-girl-bullied-by-plain-girls theme was a refreshing, believable twist on the standard bullying trope. Being inside the hot girlâs head was fascinating (and excruciating): dealing with her insecurities, feeling the pain of missing not only her old friends but her old self. Tabitha really falls apart in this book. Itâs hard to watch but impossible to put down.
Haydu also nails the experience of a life lived half-online and half-IRL. The way Tabitha tunes out the world to concentrate on LBC, the way she feels like these online strangers are her only real friends and events on the site spark her emotions throughout the day, reminded me so much of my old Livejournal days, when baring my soul online to strangers all over the world was the most important thing ever. Itâs so easy to get sucked in. Itâs so hard to describe in a way that matters. And Haydu does it so well.
The writing was real pretty, too.
What I Would Have Done Differently:
I liked that the âbig revealâ in this book felt really surprising (I actually gasped on the subway), but I would have liked a couple more clues along the way.
