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Dominique Baylor is a senior in high school who has never had a boyfriend. She has zero experience with boys, but thats never really bothered her. Her best friend Amy has enough hookups for the both of them. Dom has always thought it would be strange to kiss a boy that you had no feelings for. In medical and anatomical terms, Dom knows everything there is to know about boys. Yet shes never had a real relationship with one. For her seventeen years, Dominique has just never met a boy that she was really truly interested in.

Then she met Wesley. Wesley Gershwin. Star track runner at her best friends high school. Its not just his good looks that attract Dominique, but his sweet smile and shy demeanor. She falls for him more quickly than she could ever imagine, and soon they are close friends, emailing each other on a daily basis. But Dom wants so much more. After pining after Wesley for weeks, and imagining him as her boyfriend, she finally gets her wish! The two of them are nearly inseparable, talking on the phone for hours each night and Dom is always counting down the minutes until she can see her sweetheart again.

Dom has never been somebodys girlfriend before, and it gives her this amazing feeling of being loved. Wes and Dom are both each others first loves, and they share so many firsts together. Dom is confident that even though Wesley is going to NYU and shes going to Tulane for college, they will be able to keep a long-distance relationship alive. But the first semester of college is a lot different than she could have expected, and their relationship just isnt the same anymore.

Daria Snadowsky holds nothing back in Anatomy of a Boyfriend. The book is a play by play of Dominique and Wesleys relationship. From their first meeting to their parting words. All girls will be able to relate to Doms feelings about boys, even if they havent suffered a serious heartbreak. I could relate to Doms confusion about whether Wesley liked her or not when they were in their just friends stage. It is clear to see Judy Blumes influence on Snadowsky from the loving way that she handles her characters. Im surprised that this is her first book, because Daria Snadowsky does such an amazing job of portraying Dom, that I felt like her best friend that she confided everything to.