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marimcks's review
4.0
This book was okay. You know that book you read a while ago and you LOVED it but now that you've actually had time to think about what you've read you're totally like eh? Exactly how I feel about this book. I'd recommend it.
alisonnicholslol's review
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
0.5
This book sucked.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia
sparklesandnargles's review
2.0
i'm not sure how i feel about this book. Okay, i know some of the stuff that happened here are true, but i refuse to believe that everything is because the pacing just doesn't work. It's basically a cautionary tale for young women to refuse older men's advances and what nots. sad book.
_michelle_'s review
1.0
I was highlighting everything I had a problem with so as to include it in this review, but I chose to stop before carpel tunnel set in. What especially annoyed me were the childish words and tendencies that seemed too young for a 14-year-old scattered throughout the whole book: being happy and saying she could detect the happiness of her pajamas and other inanimate objects, crying because she and her best (and only) friend mutually said they were best friends, and so on; and also, just many instances of language that didn't feel authentic to a more modern teenager (this was published in 2000).
I'm no rape expert, but this didn't feel like an authentic account at all; I know it's a work of fiction, but if an author is going to write something down, it seems to me that it should be convincing, whether the subject matter is elves and orcs or something contemporary. Given that Beatrice Sparks supposedly deals with addicted and victimized teens firsthand, one would think she could write a convincing molestation story from all the stories she's been told. She can't, though.
I'm no rape expert, but this didn't feel like an authentic account at all; I know it's a work of fiction, but if an author is going to write something down, it seems to me that it should be convincing, whether the subject matter is elves and orcs or something contemporary. Given that Beatrice Sparks supposedly deals with addicted and victimized teens firsthand, one would think she could write a convincing molestation story from all the stories she's been told. She can't, though.
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