cover image Ask Me What I Want

Ask Me What I Want

Rosemarie Santini. Fawcett Books, $2.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-449-70069-3

Beautiful Alice Martin, 16, faces one dilemma after another: she likes two boys, she wants to be a veterinarian over her mother's wishes that she take up professional modeling and her best friend has been experimenting with drugs and sex. With her mother's help, Alice realizes that if she tries really hard, she can have it all. Some painfully awkward writing and Alice's unbelievable naivete make this slight, didactic story less than diverting. For diehard romance fans only. Ages 10-up. (Mar.)