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Unteachable
by Elliot Wake
“here’s looking at you kid”
Maise; 18, high school senior, Irish. absent father and drug addicted/dealer mother. When she meets evan wilke at the carnival on a roller coaster. instant chemistry. she says she’s 21. they fuck in his car but it’s different - he wants to Know her, that scares her (she’s used to fucking and running before the man can.) she bikes away from him knowing that fuck was different than the rest. she meets wesley, loner who latches onto her, unlikely friendship. on the first day of school maise walks into her media studies class. new teacher; mr. evan wilke. they continue their affair in private, shit happens and truths come out. at the end of the book. she dumps him and goes to leave Then on the flight. then....... “You’re pretty brave,” the guy beside me said, “sitting up front by yourself.”
it’s very emotionally confusing. she’s the rebel child everyone my age wishes to be. and you know how bad their relationship is, while completely legal it’s not morally correct. But, it still has you hooked, swooning. the way it’s written makes you forgive him over and over. also the drug takedown is cool. i like wesleys mom, siobhan.
9/10 a cluster fuck of every great teen writing trope.
favourite parts; casablanca references. mirroring the start and ending (plane and roller coaster). joni reference (““You’re in my blood like holy wine. And before you think that’s cheesy, that’s Joni Mitchell”)
repetition of quotes like “‘Try’ being the operative word,” he said,”.
“Things I didn’t expect to do my senior year:
Become a drug dealer.
Become my mother.
Find and lose the love of my life.”
Maise; 18, high school senior, Irish. absent father and drug addicted/dealer mother. When she meets evan wilke at the carnival on a roller coaster. instant chemistry. she says she’s 21. they fuck in his car but it’s different - he wants to Know her, that scares her (she’s used to fucking and running before the man can.) she bikes away from him knowing that fuck was different than the rest. she meets wesley, loner who latches onto her, unlikely friendship. on the first day of school maise walks into her media studies class. new teacher; mr. evan wilke. they continue their affair in private, shit happens and truths come out. at the end of the book. she dumps him and goes to leave Then on the flight. then....... “You’re pretty brave,” the guy beside me said, “sitting up front by yourself.”
it’s very emotionally confusing. she’s the rebel child everyone my age wishes to be. and you know how bad their relationship is, while completely legal it’s not morally correct. But, it still has you hooked, swooning. the way it’s written makes you forgive him over and over. also the drug takedown is cool. i like wesleys mom, siobhan.
9/10 a cluster fuck of every great teen writing trope.
favourite parts; casablanca references. mirroring the start and ending (plane and roller coaster). joni reference (““You’re in my blood like holy wine. And before you think that’s cheesy, that’s Joni Mitchell”)
repetition of quotes like “‘Try’ being the operative word,” he said,”.
“Things I didn’t expect to do my senior year:
Become a drug dealer.
Become my mother.
Find and lose the love of my life.”