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A review by ceruleanjen
Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
3.0
Cyd Charisse is far different from any teenage girl you've ever know. After her mother and stepfather ban her from seeing her soon-to-be ex-boyfriend, Shrimp, she is sent to New York to stay with her real father for a while. There she will finally get to know her family better and perhaps figure a few things out.
******SPOILERS BELOW. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!*****
After I started reading this, I wasn't sure I would like it. Cyd Charisse was definitely different, but she seemed extremely immature, as did her boyfriend, Shrimp. The writing style is a bit hard to enjoy at times because it seems there are a lot of run-ons that made me pause and re-read what I just read again. However, as the story went on, Cyd began to grow on me. I began to understand why she acts the way she does. And suddenly she doesn't seem so immature anymore.
She lives with her mother and step-father, and while her step-father (called Sid-dad) is pretty cool, she doesn't have a close relationship with her mother and barely remembers her father and hasn't met her half-siblings yet. Cyd kind of lives a lonely life because her mother is either too busy with work or obsessing over something to actually see her. Even though Cyd appears to be immature and spoiled, she really does have a good heart. You can see this in the way she thinks about her family, the help, and friends.
Cyd also carries around and talks to a doll her father bought her the last time she saw him, named Gingerbread. Gingerbread is her confidant. I got to where I admired Cyd's naive, unique personality. I really liked her nursing home friend, Sugar Pie (that's an odd name though).
I liked Cyd getting to meet her half-siblings, and finally breaking down one of her deepest darkest secrets to her mother.
All in all, this was an interesting book with different characters. I didn't love it, but I ended up liking this more than I expected. I'll probably check out the next one too, just to see where Cyd's next adventure leads up to!
******SPOILERS BELOW. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!*****
After I started reading this, I wasn't sure I would like it. Cyd Charisse was definitely different, but she seemed extremely immature, as did her boyfriend, Shrimp. The writing style is a bit hard to enjoy at times because it seems there are a lot of run-ons that made me pause and re-read what I just read again. However, as the story went on, Cyd began to grow on me. I began to understand why she acts the way she does. And suddenly she doesn't seem so immature anymore.
She lives with her mother and step-father, and while her step-father (called Sid-dad) is pretty cool, she doesn't have a close relationship with her mother and barely remembers her father and hasn't met her half-siblings yet. Cyd kind of lives a lonely life because her mother is either too busy with work or obsessing over something to actually see her. Even though Cyd appears to be immature and spoiled, she really does have a good heart. You can see this in the way she thinks about her family, the help, and friends.
Cyd also carries around and talks to a doll her father bought her the last time she saw him, named Gingerbread. Gingerbread is her confidant. I got to where I admired Cyd's naive, unique personality. I really liked her nursing home friend, Sugar Pie (that's an odd name though).
I liked Cyd getting to meet her half-siblings, and finally breaking down one of her deepest darkest secrets to her mother.
All in all, this was an interesting book with different characters. I didn't love it, but I ended up liking this more than I expected. I'll probably check out the next one too, just to see where Cyd's next adventure leads up to!