AJ L. (pyrajane) reviewed on + 69 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 13
This one is hard to rate. On one hand its a powerful and painful snapshot of what happens when parents suck and a girl has no outlet to create her identity. I really responded to the girls emotional blankness and how she wants everything to be perfect, but keeps herself detached from everything that happens to her. Im also impressed that Ray was sixteen when she started writing it.
Its not the type of book that you can say you liked because so many horrible things happen, but its the type of book that stays with you and gives you the creeps when you think about it, and I think thats the mark of some seriously good writing. It also made me think about how effed up I was at 14 and some of the decisions I made by choosing not to make a decision at all.
Seriously, if you can make an alcoholic pedophile the good character, youve written something really amazing.
Oh, and this is one of those books where the back cover description sucks, sucks, sucks. It's like they tried to describe the book to make it look like it was G Rated when this is a big ole R.
Its not the type of book that you can say you liked because so many horrible things happen, but its the type of book that stays with you and gives you the creeps when you think about it, and I think thats the mark of some seriously good writing. It also made me think about how effed up I was at 14 and some of the decisions I made by choosing not to make a decision at all.
Seriously, if you can make an alcoholic pedophile the good character, youve written something really amazing.
Oh, and this is one of those books where the back cover description sucks, sucks, sucks. It's like they tried to describe the book to make it look like it was G Rated when this is a big ole R.
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