Book Review on Every Girls Guide to Flings by Marla Miniano

(My title sucks I know. These will be my first attempt to give a book review (well I don’t think it’s one so here it is. And I love the main topic which is being Flirty. )

Everyone has an Ericka Barcelona in us.

 I know eyebrows are now almost exchanging places as the mind squeezed out every memory in there trying to find the familiarity of this girl’s name.  But I am way too ecstatic to say that Ericka Barcelona lives in every fearless girl’s heart. Yeah...I know I am talking in riddles (and I intend to talk I riddles just for this paragraph: P). Well, the truth is Ericka Barcelona is the lead character of my recent fun read. Well, the book’s title really caught my eye and for some weird reason I feel epileptic at that time in the middle of National Bookstores’ Filipino fiction section. The title is “Every Girls Guide to Flings” and it just made my day. Haha! I am already itching to rip its plastic cover while falling in line to pay for it at the cashier. I don’t know why but my mind is inclined to read “flirty” stuff. And maybe because back in college (I’m still in my cocoon in high school) I am one person who definitely loves to have crushes. Yes.  Crushes.  As in lots and lots of crushes. I don’t really know but I just love basking at the pleasure of being “kilig” all the time. It makes me feel young and alive and it takes out my mind from the pressure the school is giving me. It is an outlet and I am thankful I have such outlet.

  Just like Ericka, whose struggles are the same as mine, I love being flirty. Not the negative flirty kind but the kind that blatantly says “Hey, I am flirty for myself and not because I want attention”. I believe in self empowerment and it could be a surprising lift when at times you feel so down close to kissing the earth’s crust. I love Ericka’s straight forward honesty towards herself and towards the people around her. One thing’s for sure. She’s not one of the Plastics (the antagonists of the movie Mean Girls) and that is a big deal. She lives so honestly that it became her weakest point. Well I am not really an excellent giver of book reviews so I guess I’ll opt on giving pointers instead. 

So this is for me only. I am not generalising everything here’s why reading Evert Girls Guide to Flings by Marla Miniano will make your mood go up to Mt. Everest. I have decided to give positive ones though and find out for yourself what you don’t like.

1.       FLIRTY – Super! If you want to be re-oriented on how it is to be a flirt then go ahead. At the end of it you’ll most likely have a better view of being flirty anyway. And oh! I am almost tempted to have flings to try it myself. O_O Haha.

2.       FUN – It will never bore you. In fact it will make you cranky. Kidding! The truth is you will get involved in Ericka’s diva-ish and the-hell-I-care attitude that’ll make it all the more fun and crazy.

3.       FABULOUS – Aside from the fact that our heroine is described as one gorgeous 16-year-old who-looked-like-a-stunning-mature-for-her-age girl she has also the curves at the right places. (Bitter! She probably has more boobs than I am.) Well, she carries herself with grace in every SOS situation and that is the true meaning of “fabulous for me”.  She got spunk!

4.       NORMAL – Wonder why? It’ll show you that what she’s going through is normal for every girl, good or bad. It’s the same dilemmas that we are suffering from house problems to school problems to circle of friends’ problem and to self problem. It’s like a part of us printed on a book. So definitely every girl reading this book can relate.

So probably, here’s what my mind can think as the best reason why this book could make or break your view on flirty girls. Good thing, this one here is the good kind of bad. And gasp! We could learn a lesson or two about being who we are and accepting it with a full embrace. J