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A review by keinbock
All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
lighthearted
3.5
I loved these books as a kid. They are a bit cringe now, though I still find the teen romance cute and sweet, the way adults love to joke about toddlers interacting now will be getting married one day. I also loved the feel of stepping back a generation, before cell phones and when having a Hispanic friend was a novelty.
This one is probably one of her lesser books, in truth, because I think she sacrifices the character at the end. This is not a story of a girl rejecting ideas that people have pushed on her and learning to think for herself, but rather a story of a girl rejecting ideas that people have pushed on her...and replacing them with nonoriginal ideas that new and different people push on her. Part of my adverse reaction is probably vegetarian bias, since shooting out windows in protest of animal testing isn't the universally acknowledged act of evil the author seems to want us to assume it is.
This one is probably one of her lesser books, in truth, because I think she sacrifices the character at the end. This is not a story of a girl rejecting ideas that people have pushed on her and learning to think for herself, but rather a story of a girl rejecting ideas that people have pushed on her...and replacing them with nonoriginal ideas that new and different people push on her. Part of my adverse reaction is probably vegetarian bias, since shooting out windows in protest of animal testing isn't the universally acknowledged act of evil the author seems to want us to assume it is.