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A review by chuskeyreads
Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
1.0
I was absolutely disgusted by this book and the author's obvious agenda. Cyd Charisse, a promiscuous 16-year old girl with an infantile personality and sever Daddy issues, is kicked out of a ritzy boarding school for popping prescription drugs, under-age drinking, and having sex with her ex-boyfriend, Justin. The nonchalant attitude of Cyd's mother (throwing a box of Trojans at her), Cyd's nonchalant attitude about going to "the clinic" (euphemism for abortion), and her grandmother's repetitive reassurance that she "did the right thing" is just too much.
I am not abject to the realism of teenage issues, but it's uncharacteristic of most parents and grandparents to be so blaise about Cyd's multiple issues. Both her mother and her bio-dad are quite wealthy, which is also uncharacteristic of most.It's also bizarre that Cyd's character is a sullen teenager who is more concerned at whether she's increase her bra size one minute, and acting like a 7-year old firmly attached to Gingerbread, the "dolly" her biological father bought her and obsessed with making up childish nicknames for her friend (Shrimp) and her grandmother (Sugar Pie - of course, that may be her real name). I was almost 40 pages in before I found out how old she was. The clinic reference indicated she was much older than her characterization described. Cyd talks about taking her dolly on walks and sunbathing with her on the beach. She calls her bio-dad, and throws a little kid fit when he doesn't know who Gingerbread is. How would he know? He bought her the doll in an airport when she was 5 - when she saw him for the first and only time. Cyd should be in some serious therapy.
I am not abject to the realism of teenage issues, but it's uncharacteristic of most parents and grandparents to be so blaise about Cyd's multiple issues. Both her mother and her bio-dad are quite wealthy, which is also uncharacteristic of most.It's also bizarre that Cyd's character is a sullen teenager who is more concerned at whether she's increase her bra size one minute, and acting like a 7-year old firmly attached to Gingerbread, the "dolly" her biological father bought her and obsessed with making up childish nicknames for her friend (Shrimp) and her grandmother (Sugar Pie - of course, that may be her real name). I was almost 40 pages in before I found out how old she was. The clinic reference indicated she was much older than her characterization described. Cyd talks about taking her dolly on walks and sunbathing with her on the beach. She calls her bio-dad, and throws a little kid fit when he doesn't know who Gingerbread is. How would he know? He bought her the doll in an airport when she was 5 - when she saw him for the first and only time. Cyd should be in some serious therapy.