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A review by zhelana
They Could Have Named Her Anything by Stephanie Jimenez
Did not finish book.
I'm really not interested in the sex lives of 17 year old sluts. I mean, I'm not really interested in the sex lives of anyone, but least of all children. This book promised me a deep thinking book about what our names mean and how we live out our names for our whole lives. Instead it gave me some teenage pap about girls having sex and using vibrators and falling in love with their friend's father. Also the friend's father fell in love with her, so I'm quitting before I hit a child molestation scene in this piece of trash. It was absolutely disgusting.
Also, Maria's parents were completely unbelievable. They start out giving everything to get their daughter a better education and send her to a ritzy private school even though they are middle class. But then, they completely change track and demand she get a job and not go to college. The kinds of parents who value education enough to send their kid to expensive private school do not demand their kid not go to college. Every last kid at my private school, except for one who went to play professional baseball, went to college.
Also, Maria's parents were completely unbelievable. They start out giving everything to get their daughter a better education and send her to a ritzy private school even though they are middle class. But then, they completely change track and demand she get a job and not go to college. The kinds of parents who value education enough to send their kid to expensive private school do not demand their kid not go to college. Every last kid at my private school, except for one who went to play professional baseball, went to college.