Book 17: You Look Different in Real Life

I'm a huge fan of the Seven Up documentary series, so when I read a summary for You Look Different in Real Life, I just had to get the book. This novel is about Justine, one of the children featured in a documentary series called Five at Six, which focuses on five children at six years old, and then again at eleven, and so on for every five years. Now it's time to start filming Five at Sixteen, and Justine, one of the viewer favorites from the first two movies, is insecure about coming across as a disappointment in the new film. She has no hobbies, her friendships have imploded since the last documentary, and she's just not where her sassy eleven-year-old self had envisioned she'd be. Every character here has a lot to deal with on individual level, and they're all so likable. I loved the complex relationships, especially between the five kids and their past selves (although Ian, Justine's recently ex-boyfriend, felt a little red herring), and everything just unfolded perfectly. My favorite book this year so far. A+