Ooh, how I wanted to love this book. Working with high schoolers as a school librarian, I was sure that this would be a hit. After trying to get into it, though, I struggled. I found the characters to be a bit cliche and the plot to be somewhat predictable. I apologize for not being able to give this a glowing review. Thank you for allowing me to review this book.

The First World Problems of Jason Van Otterloo by James Bailey is a wonderful and unique young adult book. The whole book is make up of Jason's emails, he doesn't have a cell phone. Jason emails his best friend, other friends and two girls. I could not stop reading this book, and am excited the series will go on. Jason is 15 years old and works several jobs over the summer, very funny. Jason is the adult in the relationship with his parents, who both have an alcohol problem. I loves how the characters grow over the course of the book, which takes place in the summer. I strongly recommend this book.

I received this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

First World Problems of Jason Van Otterloo is a charming story filled with great characters. I really enjoyed how the story was told through emails. It was a fun read. The characters were charming and relatable. I loved how you could really see each characters personalities shine through the email. This book deals with a lot of thing thats teenagers go through and made the story very relatable.

Such an interesting way of storytelling, it will take you a while to get to grips with the to and fro of emails. But, believe me, it’s worth it.

Thank you very much for making this volume available for my review. The appeal of this particular book was not evident to me, and if I cannot file a generally positive review I prefer simply to advise the publisher to that effect and file no review at all.