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A review by ghostiness
Rainbow Party by Paul Ruditis
1.0
I can't remember the last book I hated this much. I don't know where to start.
The plot is sloppy, the dialogues are unbelievable, this is clearly just an attempt at teaching teens about STD's through fear tactics. Which could have been done better.
But the worst part is that this book was FILLED with teens shown thinking "but if I go to this party where I engage in oral activity, maybe my crush will fall in love with me and everything will be perfect"
How was this published?
"She had no idea how he would feel about her afterward. If she was good, he might come back for more. Then maybe they’d fall in love and make love. That’d be cool."
SPOILERS AHEAD.
The party never happens because the few people who decide to go show up last minute, and the girl hosting (Gin) chose a night her parents wouldn't be home for a few hours because of some dumb reason I thought would fall through all along. I don't remember it and I'm not backtracking. This whole party relied on her parents being out of the house for "a few hours." But they come home of course and the chapter ends as people start walking up to the front door.
THEN it skips ahead to weeks later where Gin is being ostracized at school because there was an outbreak of gonorrhea just after the party that never happened because everyone was already hooking up with everyone. And it's somehow Gin's fault because it's common knowledge that she's been with every guy. It might be, I don't care.
But I can't get over how sloppy the writing was. It was all extremely juvenile, even for a teen book. I cringed a lot.
The plot is sloppy, the dialogues are unbelievable, this is clearly just an attempt at teaching teens about STD's through fear tactics. Which could have been done better.
But the worst part is that this book was FILLED with teens shown thinking "but if I go to this party where I engage in oral activity, maybe my crush will fall in love with me and everything will be perfect"
How was this published?
"She had no idea how he would feel about her afterward. If she was good, he might come back for more. Then maybe they’d fall in love and make love. That’d be cool."
SPOILERS AHEAD.
The party never happens because the few people who decide to go show up last minute, and the girl hosting (Gin) chose a night her parents wouldn't be home for a few hours because of some dumb reason I thought would fall through all along. I don't remember it and I'm not backtracking. This whole party relied on her parents being out of the house for "a few hours." But they come home of course and the chapter ends as people start walking up to the front door.
THEN it skips ahead to weeks later where Gin is being ostracized at school because there was an outbreak of gonorrhea just after the party that never happened because everyone was already hooking up with everyone. And it's somehow Gin's fault because it's common knowledge that she's been with every guy. It might be, I don't care.
But I can't get over how sloppy the writing was. It was all extremely juvenile, even for a teen book. I cringed a lot.