Book Review-"Viola in Reel Life" by Adriana Trigiani

Wow...so I haven't posted in a while. Sorry about that. School has literally been so busy and I also had track and so many other things I'm trying to juggle. But since track is over and the school year is SORTA winding down (if you don't count finals), I'll have a lot more down time. I'd like to share with you two very inspirational books I've read in the past few weeks (and I've read a LOT of books in the past few weeks, including the rest of the Mortal Instruments series and the Infernal Devices, which I HIGHLY recommend). It's sort of a series, except a series which is only two books long, unless the author plans on making a sequel. Which I doubt, because the second book tied things up nicely. I plan to have my series that I'm writing be two books long. The first one's called The Ignorance Of Me, Daphne Willowston, which I have already written and am trying to edit (by trying I mean I'm procrastinating--A LOT), and the second one is basically explaining the backstory of what happened in the first book, while also tying up some loose ends from the first book also. ANYWAY. Book review. Right. So the two books I read are "Viola in Reel Life" and "Viola in the Spotlight" by Adriana Trigiani. The first book is about a girl, obviously named Viola, who has to go to Prefect Boarding School For Girls for a year because her parents are off filming a documentary in the Middle East. She has to leave behind New York City, her best friends Andrew and Caitlin, and basically everything she has ever known. The only thing she has to get through her year at Prefect is her beloved video camera. She keeps a video diary and her dream is to go to film school and become one of the greatest directors of all time. She meets her three room mates, Suzanne, Romy, and Marisol, who actually seem to like being there. With a year filled with first documentaries, first boyfriends, first kisses, and first everything, Viola is in for her own movie, in a way she would've never imagined.