Read this in preparation for The Year of Living Awkwardly blog tour. Didn't particularly enjoy this one, but I liked how The Year of Living Awkwardly builds upon this one to show Chloe's growth.

Confessions of a High School Disaster is the first installment of the Chloe Snow series. I read the second installment first and enjoyed it so much that I decided to go back and read 'Confessions of a High School Disaster'.

In this book Chloe is just about to start high school. Her immaturity definitely shows through in this book. This makes sense as she is just at the beginning of both high school and her parents divorce. The combination of these two things definitely would push Chloe to concentrate on more important things than basic teenage stuff ( i.e. being a kissing virgin).

I think divorce is an important topic for YA to tackle as its something many teens must work through and I think COAHSD did it well. One of the most eye-opening aspects for me was Chloe was how her opinion of her mother's actions changed throughout the story. In the beginning Chloe made excuses for her mother's actions. Later on she realized that her father is the one who stayed and her mother was the irresponsible one. I also really enjoyed Chloe's relationship with her dog. I love YA stories that include pets. I also loved that this relationship helped Chloe work through her parents divorce and her mothers abandonment.

While I didn't enjoy this installment as much as the first one, I am glad I read it as it fills in the blanks for me. I plan on reading the rest of the series and am excited to see what happens in Chloe's junior year

For my stop on the tour, I want to talk about discovering this series!! Chloe Snow is one of those voices that will stay with me long after I've read all the books in her series (which I definitely will!). She's one of those hilariously naive, honest, endearing, and addicting narrators. I couldn't get enough of her 14-year-old view of the world!!

In Confessions of a High School Disaster, Chloe Snow takes us through her entire Freshman year of high school. Her mother leaves for Mexico to "write", she makes a vow to lose her kissing virginity, she has some epic misunderstandings, she auditions for the school acapella group and the high school musical, she gets a maybe-not-really boyfriend, and her reliable dad does something utterly unreliable.

I loved Chloe's take on her world. This book reads young and immature, but the character is, in fact, young and immature. If you don't like reading younger voices who ramble and word vomit, you probably won't like this book. If you like LOLing about high school hijinks and cringe-worthy situations, this is totally your book!!

I didn't even realize how much I missed reading about a character like Chloe until I started this book. She reminded me of Ruby Oliver (The Boyfriend List) & Kelsey Finkelstein (Freshman Year and Other Disasters) mixed with Rose Zarelli (Confessions of an Angry Girl) & Freshman Devi (Gimme a Call). These characters get into my heart, make me LOL, and there is a void when they aren't in my reading life.

My fave things about the 1st book:

-Chloe has a Boston terrier named Snickers (I'm a proud BT owner and can confirm that they are indeed farting machines).
-Loved the diary format. It totally worked here & made it hard to put down-- I kept telling myself "one more entry and I'll stop for the night".
-Lightness-- I read a lot of books about SERIOUS subjects, so sometimes it refreshes me to read about things that are just a normal level of serious.
-It brought me back to how I used to obsess about the DUMBEST things. By dumb I mean things that I thought were so important and obsess-worthy which actually turned out to be a giant waste of my time-- but no one could've convinced me of that back then!!
-Chloe's epic Googling skills-- Googling example: "no boyfriend virgin happy anyway". So much LOL, and also I totally would've Googled such things if I had access to internet as a 9th grader.

This book series is so me, that I can't believe it wasn't on my radar before. Upon finishing the first book, I immediately started the 2nd one!!

OVERALL: LOVEDDDD!! Chloe Snow is so cute and funny-- she's what I've been missing in my reading life for a while. If you like coming-of-age cringe-worthy oversharing, Chloe is going to be your girl. I will definitely be reading the rest of the series (book 3 is in the works, so YAY!!) & you should too!!

I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book. Thanks to NetGalley and Simon Pulse for the opportunity to read and review Confessions of a High School Disaster: Chloe Snow's Diary by Emma Chastain! Chloe is nervous about starting high school and is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants. Her freshman year turns out to be nothing like she imagined and so much bigger than she could have guessed it would be. Through the year, Chloe has crushes, makes friends and learns how to grow and still hang onto lifelong friendships. She's also involved in drama, some she causes and some she's blameless for. Her dad is a solid part of her life, while her mother turns out to be selfish and flaky. In the span of that eventful year, Chloe matures and ends up being a sophomore willing to share her painfully gained wisdom with her underclassmen. 5 stars for an entertaining realistic fiction read for young adults!

I loved that this was an epistolary novel. Those are definitely some of my favorites. Especially when they are told by a witty, honest, and humorous girl like Chloe. I had a lot of fun flipping the pages of this book. It’s a book that I would reread.

I also love that this format lets the reader really get to know Chloe on a deep personal level. It lets the reader enter her life and it just felt like it came to life to me. I love how it’s relatable because I, too, was once a teenager. I remember living some of these scenarios that Chloe goes through.

I think that many people would enjoy this book and that it’s for many different people. If you like books like Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty, you would like Confessions of a High School Disaster. I’ll definitely be on the lookout for more by Emma Chastain!

DNF on page 185

So, I requested this because I saw the comparison to Bridget Jones' Diary. To me, that means semi-adult topics and a 17-18 year old MC.

Nope. This girl was 14. She was 14 and talking about being a spinster because her bff had a boyfriend. She talked about "dying to give a hand job" and how she was going to marry a senior and have his football babies because he talked to her in the hall. She was getting drunk and putting herself in stupid situations. She's horrible to her best friend and when her male friend comes out to her, her reaction made me cringe.

It started out as a train wreck I couldn't stop staring at and then I quickly got tired reading her dramatics. I eventually skipped to the end and skimmed the last 20% or so, but it wasn't enough for me to go back and read. I somehow missed that the MC was so young or I wouldn't have requested it at all.

Perhaps this is just a case of my not being the demographic? I can't think of one redeeming thing to say about it. Obviously by the high reviews already up, I'm in the minority.

**Huge thanks to Simon Pulse and NetGalley for providing the arc free of charge**

I enjoy books written in form of a diary of a teenage girl - they're always full of funny stories, wit and they frequently remind us how life seemed to embarrass us at every step every single day during teenage years. I enjoyed reading Chloe's adventures because of all of these reasons but I'm afraid that as an educator I can't recommend it to my younger students because of phrases such as: 'hand job', 'penises' and many more. I know that the author captures reality but still when a parent comes to question my choices that would go as really poor explanation.