Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis

Publisher: Harlequin Teen
On Sale Date; May 1st 2018
Pages: 334

After her beloved mom passes away due to cancer, sixteen year old Tiffany Sly is moving from her hometown Chicago to live with her biological father she has never met, or even is 100% sure of that he actually is her real dad. When she arrives in Florida. She isn't prepared though for what she finds there.
Her dad, Anthony Stone, lives in a big mansion with his family. She finds out that she has fours sisters and...that her family are strict Jehovah Witnesses. This totally is opposite to her. It is difficult enough to have lost her mother, and now she has to deal with a strict dad with four sisters from different mothers and a religion that is forced on her. And her anxiety and autism.Her dad even orders her to get her braids out, which is hiding her alopecia and to stop with the medication against her anxiety. She also meets the very friendly neighbor lady who immediately helps her with her hair, but she has to promise she becomes friends with their son, Marcus, who has had a near-dead experience and now is dressed quite oddly. Her father forbids going friendly with the neighbors though because two women living with their son is against his religion. When one of Tiffany's sister's London accidentaly get's pregnant though, things are shaken up in the family. Things get even worse by revelations that Anthony Stone may not be her father. Another man has stepped forward claiming that Tiffany is his daughter. Tiffany cannot reconcile his claims with the woman that she knew as her mother, even though she sees some of herself in this other man, and it totally paints a different picture of the her mom than she knew before.

I really liked the storyline of this book! The story handles so many different things, that is really what stood out! It truly was moving to read how Tiffany landed in her new life and had to deal with everything that was so different from her own family back in Chicago. I really shook my head sometimes at how things where handled in her dad's house.t. Tiffany has severe anxiety and OCD. She also has alopecia. All these characteristics that the author added made her just more realistic and awesome. It also was very brave how she handled all the changes in her new life and how she became friends with Marcus, against the will of her father. She really stood up to him and his sometimes too strict beliefs that he really needed. Tiffany is also black and she has so many conversations about what it means for her to grow up without representation, to wish she looked like 'other girls', those who pass as white, mostly because her dad is white and it leads her to a lot of questions.

Overall, this book is very good, entertaing original and has a great storyline!!