The Profile is a young adult novel, with the plot line of an adult romance novel.  This should not deter the novels main audience, girl readers in the age bracket from 11 to 15 years old.  The story is told in a simple to understand language that its target audience will find easy to follow.  However, this is not a novel that will appeal to boys.

Danielle McCormack, the novel’s main character is a high school student with a promising career as a journalist ahead of her.   Like many teenagers she finds out that life does not always follow her rules, and can be quite unforgiving.  How Danielle reacts to her changing circumstances and emotions is what gives the story its character and interest.

Through the course of the story Danielle discovers the truth about her feelings for Ricardo Rossi, the son of her mother’s friend Joseph Rossi.  She also gets to see a side of her mother not known to her before, which mystifies her.  Then there is the secretive Mr. Dean Lawrence Polking, a former student of the high school Danielle attends.  He is now the world’s most successful retail store owner, and has come back to his home town to open the world’s largest shopping complex.  Just how he influences those around her Danielle is not sure, but she does suspect that he has in the past held some sort of hold over her mother. 

The author has captured the essence of change that occurs to us all in our formative years.  He has portrayed Danielle’s transition from a young girl to early womanhood in a delightful way.  Young girls will be able to identify with her what they are going though themselves, and I am sure will not put the book down once they have started to read it.  

Although this book is not the best young adult novel I have read, I would give this book a two star rating.