Things Jolie Needs To Do Before She Bites It by Kerry Winfrey

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
On Sale Date: July 10th 2018
Pages: 288
Age Range: Young Adult

Sixteen year old Jolie Peterson is suffering from mandibular prognathism, also known as severe underbite. She has to go a surgery to fix her face, that will get her rid of headaches and which makes that she can finally chew normally. And most of all, make her look more normal. But there is a''but'' to this surgery. There is a small change that the surgery goes wrong and she might die. 

Together with her two best friends since kindergarten Evelyn and Derek they make up a bucket list, just in case something goes wrong on the surgery table: A Things Jolie Needs To Do Before She Bites It (Which Is Super Unlikely But Still, It Could Happen) list. Things like: eat every appetizer on the Applebee’s menu and kiss her crush, Noah Reed.But most of all: audition for the high school musical, even though her face doesn't look normal yet. And guess what? Not the most popular girl in school is picked to play the lead, but Jolie! Then there is also something else going in her home life; her sister Abbie is pregnant, and because her boyfriend has left her, Jolie is the one to join Abbie at the childbirth classes Abbie is attending, which leads to funny situations. Will Jolie's surgery succeed?

 Jolie is totally someone that you might have known in high school. It was really cute that she was going to the local Applebee's with her two best friends in many scenes, I can totally imagine the three of them sitting there with their appetizers.Evelyn is struggling in school and dealing with the reality that she may not get into college to pursue her fashion design dream, while Derek is still reeling from his father’s death four years prior. All of the characters have their own issues beside Jolie, even the popular girls who Jolie things are perfect have their flaws, she finds out during the book. And I loved the everything about the musical she was starring in. She finds it scary at the beginning but slowly on, even with all her facial issues, she starts to get good at it, which was very entertaining to read.

Overall, a very good and funny book with some laugh out loud moments, but also some serious moments. I recommend it!