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By Brendan T.

Promposal is a book about two best friend's hoping that their crushes will ask them to prom. The author of this book, Rhonda Helms, has also written books such as Scratch, Never Too Late, and Flirt. Promposal is a book that represents the genre of young adult and realistic fiction. In Promposal, Camilla hopes that her secret crush, Benjamin will ask her to prom. But when another guy asks her in front of the whole school and a newscast, she is forced to say yes. Camilla's best friend, Josh is also hoping someone asks him to prom. His gay best friend Ethan, who he has been secretly in love with for a long time. Right when he thinks Ethan is going to ask him, he finds out that he just was asking him to help him ask someone else to prom. Now, Josh has to hide his love and fake enthusiasm for Ethan.

In my opinion, the book was decent. The book has great plot the pace of the story moves along too slow. Also, I feel as though the characters seem younger than they actually are. The author says they are seniors in high school but she doesn't give them the mindset of seniors in high school. It got confusing at times because it would switch which character is telling the story every chapter so it was kind of hard to remember that the character from the previous chapter isn't telling the story anymore. The dialogue of the book was realistic and the characters did stuff that actual seniors in high school would do but the things they said and how they said them made them seem younger than seniors.

I would not recommend this book to people. It is too girly and dramatic, for me at least. Girls might want to read it but I definitely do not recommend this for boys. The book is slow-moving but with great plot. This book is sold at any local book store, or stores such as Wal-Mart and Target. You could also find this book in your school's library.