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Reviewed by Sandy Appleyard for Readers' Favorite
Welcome Freshman is a down-to-earth, heart-warming story of Jenna, who is heading off to college away from her home town of Birmingham, Alabama. She’s known nothing up to this point about heartache, deception, or any of the challenges in life that one can be faced with. Up until she enrolls in Lafitte University in New Orleans, Jenna has been enveloped in the safety, love, and comfort of her family, friends, and her long-time boyfriend Conner. When she meets Dave, a freshman from Baton Rouge, not only is she struck with the initially unwelcome thought of being more than friends with him, as he seems to desire, but she also struggles with balancing her college career and the unnatural (for her) tendencies of college party life with her girlfriends.
Although the title sounds slightly ambiguous, the plot is magnanimous in forcing the reader to think and/or remember that young people have real problems too. Despite her dorm-mate’s college-stereotypical expectations of Jenna, the young girl manages to hold her own, and does it with spunk. You get the feeling right off that Jenna is a wholesome, well-bred girl who isn’t going to fall into the ‘college life’ trap. The reader likes her immediately because she has strong morals and matures admirably amongst all the stresses thrown her way. The book is well-written and has great pacing and flow. Author Erin Stewart helps the reader climb inside Jenna’s head so we can feel, see, and learn from the integral lessons she learned throughout her first semester of university. And she does it with respect and integrity.
