My Life As A Rhombus Summary

As I was looking through the suggested summer reading list for 10th graders, the title of this book caught my attention: My Life As A Rhombus. I wondered how could someone have a life as a rhombus. And since it has the word “rhombus”, I was expecting the book to be mostly about math. Expecting so, I ordered the book online without reading a summary or preview. I guess I shouldn’t have judged the book by its title.
It turns out that the book is mostly about two girls becoming friends as they exchanged their secrets and undergoing similar situations that I believe is too early for high schoolers to go through. The interesting part of the book is that the author describes the story through the main character, Rhonda’s, eyes using concepts of trigonometry, so the book isn’t totally unrelated to math. As I was reading the book, I often wondered what would I do if I were in the same situation as Rhonda: having an unplanned pregnancy with an irresponsible playboy at the age of fifteen. I would probably have the same consequence as her: being forced to have abortion. The only difference would be I would be in a much greater trouble than she was in; but I would never have let that happen to me
Sarah was having an unplanned pregnancy as the story takes place, which was when they are in their senior year. In my opinion, Sarah’s situation during her pregnancy was better than that of Rhonda’s three years ago. The father of Sarah’s child was much better, he was willing to be responsible for the child, instead of shirking and not admitting the child at all. Also, Rhonda was forced to abort her child, while Sarah was able to keep her child at the end. I was quite surprised at Sarah’s decision because although she’s at the age of 18, which is considered to be in adulthood, in my opinion, she might be old enough to make important decisions but she is still too young to be a