Kate Larson is your typical stressed out senior in high school. She’s super worried about getting into Yale so she can be with her boyfriend, Paul, who’s valedictorian and basketball captain of the school. Kate thinks things couldn’t be worse, between volleyball, yearbook, friends, teachers, family, SAT retakes, application essays, final exams, and a ton of other stuff. Her long-forgotten SimuLife avatar, Rina, somehow comes to life in Kate’s bedroom as an identical clone of Kate, wearing a ton of body glitter and a way-too-peppy attitude. Kate realizes she’s wrong: things can get worse, and they just have. Cherry Cheva tells a hilarious story with a creative premise kids will be able to understand. Rina spices up Kate's life in ways you wouldn't believe: she goes to the mall while Kate is supposed to be at school, and pretending to be Kate flirts with Kate's slacker science lab partner.
Kate is funny and endearing, and so are all the other characters (unless they’re nasty, but no good story stands without the bad guys). The quick pace of the novel emulates Kate’s hectic life, but eventually the author manages to tie all the subplots up to the main plot. You’ll find out just how Kate manages to deal with everything, and how Rina's appearance ends up making life better, not worse.
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