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Nothing But the Truth
by Avi
21%
can't give it a one-star rating because I didn't hate it, but Nothing But the Truth was actually pretty bad?? essentially, it's about this student, Phillip Malloy, who starts humming the national anthem when he's supposed to stand at respectful silence, and he doesn't listen when the teacher, Miss Narwin, tells him to stop. so he does this again and again and eventually gets suspended for causing a disruption, and he tells his parents that it was "unfair," and his little lie blows up and becomes this whole national scandal.
Nothing But the Truth is an epistolary novel, which I usually enjoy, but in this case, it didn't really work. the files used to tell the story were very vague and almost... flat?, everything said in the whole book was so cheesy and not at all believable, so it was really hard to get to know the characters. even Phillip, who is our MC, I still know almost nothing about. the files also made the book wayyyy faster than it should have been, and it was hard to keep up with the plot sometimes.
Phillip was so annoying!! he caused a disruption in Miss Narwin's class TWICE, and didn't stop the twenty times she told him too. and then he refused to apologize to her. he also told his parents that "everyone hates Miss Narwin" and that he got suspended because "she has it in for me," when really, that's not the case. Miss Narwin was a fair and reasonable teacher, but Phillip was mad because he was too lazy to get a good grade in her English class. the amount of lies he somehow got away with in this book was astonishing. Miss Narwin was essentially fired because of this kid!
also, the ending wasn't that great either. to be honest, it wasn't an ending at all. there's not really any sense of finality to it or anything. Phillip ends up transferring to a new school so he doesn't have to deal with Miss Narwin (cue the eye roll) and when his homeroom teacher asks him if he wants to sing the national anthem, he starts crying and says he doesn't know the words. and then it ends. I really don't see the point in this? his web of lies finally caught up to him, oh no, now he's crying.
anyways, Nothing But the Truth was way too fast, had two-dimensional characters (more like one-dimensional tbh), and an unbearable MC who almost gets a teacher fired because he failed her class.
can't give it a one-star rating because I didn't hate it, but Nothing But the Truth was actually pretty bad?? essentially, it's about this student, Phillip Malloy, who starts humming the national anthem when he's supposed to stand at respectful silence, and he doesn't listen when the teacher, Miss Narwin, tells him to stop. so he does this again and again and eventually gets suspended for causing a disruption, and he tells his parents that it was "unfair," and his little lie blows up and becomes this whole national scandal.
Nothing But the Truth is an epistolary novel, which I usually enjoy, but in this case, it didn't really work. the files used to tell the story were very vague and almost... flat?, everything said in the whole book was so cheesy and not at all believable, so it was really hard to get to know the characters. even Phillip, who is our MC, I still know almost nothing about. the files also made the book wayyyy faster than it should have been, and it was hard to keep up with the plot sometimes.
Phillip was so annoying!! he caused a disruption in Miss Narwin's class TWICE, and didn't stop the twenty times she told him too. and then he refused to apologize to her. he also told his parents that "everyone hates Miss Narwin" and that he got suspended because "she has it in for me," when really, that's not the case. Miss Narwin was a fair and reasonable teacher, but Phillip was mad because he was too lazy to get a good grade in her English class. the amount of lies he somehow got away with in this book was astonishing. Miss Narwin was essentially fired because of this kid!
also, the ending wasn't that great either. to be honest, it wasn't an ending at all. there's not really any sense of finality to it or anything. Phillip ends up transferring to a new school so he doesn't have to deal with Miss Narwin (cue the eye roll) and when his homeroom teacher asks him if he wants to sing the national anthem, he starts crying and says he doesn't know the words. and then it ends. I really don't see the point in this? his web of lies finally caught up to him, oh no, now he's crying.
anyways, Nothing But the Truth was way too fast, had two-dimensional characters (more like one-dimensional tbh), and an unbearable MC who almost gets a teacher fired because he failed her class.