Heart’s Desire Laura Pedersen Ballantine Books ISBN: 0-345-47955-6 Fiction, Contemporary Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

Heart’s Desire is the coming of age story of Hallie Palmer. Hallie has just finished her first year in college and now she’s ready to spend the summer back home. Her first year at college has gone a little differently than she had expected. Despite her greatest efforts to keep good grades and keep her finances in order, Hallie has learned that the first year of college is all about partying and finding a boyfriend. Hallie is hoping that during the school break she can figure out her finances and that boyfriend situation but everyone else seems to have decided that Hallie is the go to girl for help in all of their latest problems and schemes.

Heart’s Desire is a great story illustrating all of the bumps, bruises, laughs, and tears of growing up. The characters are wonderfully charming, realistically flawed, and often hilarious. Who wouldn’t want Bernard Stockton as their loving and dramatically flamboyant adopted Mom? This is a great book for college students and other twenty somethings starting their new lives away from home.

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