BOOK REVIEW — The Baddest Girl on the Planet hooks the reader in a few words
"My husband is not the first man to disappoint me. That honor goes to Mike Tyson, who I met the summer I was nine, the summer I left Hatteras Island to stay in Ohio for two weeks with my Ohio friend, Charlotte." — Evie Austin, The Baddest Girl on the Planet I was hooked from these first two lines at the beginning of The Baddest Girl on the Planet by Heather Frese. I wanted to know how Evie met Mike Tyson and how he had disappointed her. Evie, a native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina, and baddest girl on the planet, has not lived her life in a straight line. This book tells her most definitive life moments through stories such as an unplanned pregnancy with her high school sweetheart at 19 or a trip to Las Vegas with a male pen pal that goes off the rails. Reading about Evie's first few months as a mother brought back memories. I could feel her tiredness and her fear that her son may not love her along with her second-guessing on whether or not she could be a mother.