mveatch6 's review for:

Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
4.0

I really love Rebecca Stead, and this book is great. I enjoyed the format, and I felt super awesome when I figured out which character was speaking on Valentine's Day. There was one thing I didn't like though-there is a subplot about kids in middle school sending each other mostly naked pictures, and of course they get in trouble, and it's terrible. But no one ever sits them down and talks to them about healthy, consensual relationships! Maybe it happened off page? One of the characters who isn't involved in that does get a brief talk from her mom about her body being her own and no one else's, but that sort of thing really should be more explicit, especially in a book like this. I still liked it, but that part bothered me a lot.