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Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager
by Beatrice Sparks
I have a lot of mixed feelings about this book.
The protagonist, Annie, is insufferable, naive, foolish, whiny and got on my nerves. She didn't deserve her worked-to-the-bone mother, who was there for her the whole time and whom she repaid with rudeness. And while I get that Annie is young and struggling, some of her thoughts are really appalling e.g. the part where she pretty much abandoned her baby.
She really pissed me off with how pathetic she was with Danny, begging and grovelling even when he treated her so horribly. And she did it not once or twice, but almost all the time. Yes, I know how such relationships can be but she was seriously in another league.
Yet it got me when she was discussing how Danny made her feel and what it was like for her, because I understand those feelings all too well. All that exhilaration and pain, and how the fear of losing him was greater than the fear of him.
I cried at the ending and at what Annie decided to do with her baby, because it felt like she deserved so much better after having had such a hard time throughout the entire book.
Really a book that makes you think. And cry, duh.
The protagonist, Annie, is insufferable, naive, foolish, whiny and got on my nerves. She didn't deserve her worked-to-the-bone mother, who was there for her the whole time and whom she repaid with rudeness. And while I get that Annie is young and struggling, some of her thoughts are really appalling e.g. the part where she pretty much abandoned her baby.
She really pissed me off with how pathetic she was with Danny, begging and grovelling even when he treated her so horribly. And she did it not once or twice, but almost all the time. Yes, I know how such relationships can be but she was seriously in another league.
Yet it got me when she was discussing how Danny made her feel and what it was like for her, because I understand those feelings all too well. All that exhilaration and pain, and how the fear of losing him was greater than the fear of him.
I cried at the ending and at what Annie decided to do with her baby, because it felt like she deserved so much better after having had such a hard time throughout the entire book.
Really a book that makes you think. And cry, duh.