A review by kristiap
The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu

5.0

I read this one for Banned Book Week. I can see why parents might think they should ban this book, they're wrong of course, banning books is not the answer. Instead, read this with your child and talk about it. The author does a great job will how high school kids can interact with one another, and how rumors can spread and easily get out of control.
There's also a part where a grieving parent spreads a rumor that starts to ruin a girl's life all because of the guilt she's trying to alleviate. I'll say that was the most frustrating part of the story for me, because it wasn't believable. This part it's about how Alice killed Brandon because she was sexting him, the book came out in 2014 so the cops definitely would have been able to check Brandon's phone after the accident and see if it had anything to do with the accident, but nothing was done and rumors continued.

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