Jocelyn E. (hoopridge) reviewed on 5/2/2009 + 252 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

First off, anyone who believes this is written as a real teen's diary is a chump. This "edited" book is written by an adult as a precautionary tale for teens.

This so-called "real" girl, Annie, is an idiot who thinks she can change her boyfriend, even after he rapes and impregnates AND abandons her. It would've been WAY more like life if the boyfriend said he loved her, knocked her up in a fumbling bedroom scene, then broke up with her. Why the rape had to happen is beyond me, unless it shows that she had NO part in the sex act that resulted in her pregnancy and therefore made her innocent. To make her an unwilling participant makes the pregnancy a side note to the violent act that created the child.

I teach high school and very few teens get pregnant by rape. Yes, it happens, but most of them are suckered into thinking they're "in love" and willfully sleep with their boyfriends, some to get pregnant on purpose. This book does a disservice to anyone who reads it thinking that (a) it's real, (b) it's probable, and (c) not a bunch of bull.

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