moniquejonath 's review for:

Forever... by Judy Blume

3.0

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okay so lots of thoughts. first, i really love that this book is not afraid to honestly portray the awkwardness of early sexual experiences. i also think that the ending was very very painfully accurate. however, this book is also now extremely dated and contains some significant fatphobia and also the standards for consent in the 1970s were so so so wack and as a sex educator i have a lot of qualms. Michael annoyed the shit out of me and i wish that there were more interesting conversations between him and Kath so that they could be more 3-dimensional characters because their dialogue was SO dry and they were both pretty flat characters.