Out of the Easy

This week I read Out of the Easy  by Ruta Sepetys. This book was REALLY good. The main character, Josie (who's 17), grows up in New Orleans. Her mom is a prostitute in a house owned by someone named Willie. Josie's mom was never really very nice to her, and was never really around, so she sees Willie as more of a mom then her own mom. Her dad is missing (dead?) and she lives in her own apartment above the bookstore she works at and has been since she was 12. Long story short, someone who she only has met once and really admires as kind of like a father-figure type person dies, and the police decide to investigate. This eventually leads to a couple surprises that are not very good ones either. I really can't tell you much without giving a lot away, but she eventually decides she wants to get away from New Orleans, or "The Big Easy" which is what the book is named after, obviously. She tries to raise money to go away to Smith College in Massachusetts. She also recruits a lot of interesting people to help her along the way, including her friend (maybe boyfriend?) Patrick, her other friend (maybe boyfriend?) Jesse, Willie, Cokie, Charlotte-well, you'll just have to read the book. It's very excited and fast-paced, with a lot of surprises and sudden plot twists, some good, some bad. This book does have some mature content, there are prostitutes and people like that, but overall it's really not that bad.
Books that I am going to read soon:
Huckleberry Finn
The Fault in Our Stars
Blythwood