What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know -- Sonya Sones

This is the sequel to What My Mother Doesn't Know.  I'm not going to give you a synopsis of the first book because, honestly, you should just read it.  It's one of my faves.

Like its predecessor, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know is a verse novel.  It picks up during the cafeteria scene, just before the first book ended, and, as you may have deduced from the title, this time we get Robin's perspective. 

When Sophie made her choice to publicly date the school outcast, she also made a choice to become a school outcast.  While Robin is deliriously happy about his relationship with Sophie, he does wonder if it's all worth it.  Especially when he sees how miserable she is when her friends dump her. 

Then, when Robin begins an art class at Harvard, where no one knows his reputation (or his age), he discovers that he has his own choice to make:  Stay with his beloved Sophie and deal with all of the strife that comes with their relationship, or end it and spend his time outside of high school with friendly, smart, cool college kids -- including a very attractive redhead named Tessa.

My reaction to the book is an immature one:  I liked it better when Robin Murphy was perfect.

I can't help it.  I'm a big baby, possibly overly romantic and newly anti-realism*, but it's true.  I loved Robin and Sophie's perfect winter vacation, and the first book made me so very happy.  Having to deal with the repercussions of The Big Moment at the end of the first book was almost too hard for me.

That isn't to say that it wasn't good -- if it hadn't been, it sure wouldn't have evoked that kind of reaction in me.  And I still love Robin and Sophie.

Oh, hell.  I'm going to go and re-read the first book again.

*I blame my newfound love of Georgette Heyer's romance novels.