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great read. A few twists and turns, Surprisingly I had no idea how the story was going to end and it shocked me, Would read again. There are those who are popular,
There are those who are outcasts,
And there are those who must choose between the two,
Megan Tuw has always been popular, As a leader of her high schools most cliquish group, shes among the anointed girls who think nothing of ridiculing those who dont fit in.
That includes Perdita Wiguiggana classmate Megan and her friends openly refer to as the Freak, But Megan doesnt know the first thing about Perdita, since she would never dream of talking to her.
Only when the two girls are thrown together in detention does Megan begin to see Perdita as more than someone with an odd last name, as more than the school outcast.
And slowly, Megan finds
herself drawn into an almostfriendship,
Then Megan faces a choice: Perdita or the group
From the Hardcover edition.
I stumbled upon this book in the library and decided to check it out and I'm glad I did, because it is a really good book.
I stayed awake untilo'clock this morning because I just could not stop reading it, It was much better than I had expected, The characters felt real, I liked the story and the writing is good, sometimes amazing, I'm not good enough in English to understand all the word games and poetry fully but I liked it anyway.
This book was boring, and too short which meant the storyline was rushed and the characters underdeveloped, In one scene of this book, a literature professor tells his students to consider the context of the times in which a book is produced.
That is useful in considering this book, published init was the time of Queen Bees and Wannabes, Mean Girls a few years later, and general handwringing about how awful high school girls are.
This book very clearly emerged from that time, with its familiar storyline of a popular girl who surprises herself by finding The Freak of the school is an interesting person, and then has to choose between her popular friends and The Freak.
Unfortunately there is little to like about main character Megan Tuw, none of the sharp wit of Mean Girls, and I'd just rather see a book that celebrates positive friendships even including their challenges!.
Very disappointed with this book, But then again it is aimed at young adults and I'm not one so maybe it's just that I was reading outside my zone.
I found the writing very simplistic but it is meant to be a young teenager telling the story, and the storyline was quite thin.
Wouldnt bother with this one unless you're ayr old girl, that wasn't at all predictable! sarcastic tone I can remember clearly that highschool me was thoroughly disappointed at picking this one up from the library.
Eh this book was ok, i kinda saw that coming in the end cuz its a typical way to end a book, . ohwelll I'll be honest, I only begun reading this because I had to for English, But it was way better than I thought it was going to be, I liked how in the end there suicide but I didn't like the characters very much, I thought Megan Tuw was self absorbed and even in the end she managed to turn everything about her.
And I didn't like Perdita, while she was the person that you were meant to feel sorry for and angry at the way everyone else treated her, I didn't like the way she acted.
While yes she had been through some hard times and in the end I did end up with having a bit more empathetic towards her, I just thought that while the book was about being yourself and Perdita was meant to be the ultimate "being herself" I didn't think she was.
She put on an act to everyone in the school and tried to fit in, but not with the norm, in with the "Freak" category.
She was smart and funny but to everyone she acted almost crazy, While yes she was probably just being defensive, if she had the opportunity I feel she would have jumped at being like everyone else, and anybody else in her position would have done nearly the exact same as she had.
I didn't feel that there was anything special about her, just that she was in a difficult situation and she had tried to cope with it in a bad way and then finally ended it.
This book was SO bad, Technically with the CAWPILE rating system I used, it gets afor the full star rating or barely a.
for half star ratings.
I wanna preface his with I like YA and even middle grade books, I can appreciate books that weren't written for my age group, or have a more simplified message for younger readers.
This book covers a hard topic, an important topic for a younger audience, However, it was done well beyond poorly, The characters are shallow and bitchy from beginning to end, and .
If your book is meant to be about character development, then develop the characters!
I'm also surprised that the author has a degree from a pretty good university and can include such lovely poetry in her book when the writing is just so, so bad.
It's awful. My seven year old stepson strings together better sentences than that, I've read some middle grade and YA with stunning prose, even with simplified language for a younger audience.
This book, it's writing, and its message are worse than shallow and simplified, Truly atrocious.
If this book wasn't onlypages and took me all ofhours to read, I would have DNFed.
To be honest, I really should have, Serving detention together, a supremely popular girl befriends the school freak, I am a big fan of Alyssa Brugman and was very disappointed with this book, I found the characters shallow and the message simplistic and preachy, The message seemed to read "Be nice to geeks or else it will be your fault when they die.
" There are so many other books that cover suicide and feeling like an outcast and peer pressure so much better than this book.
This book was just dumb. Poorly written, poorly executed. Easy reading, good for killing the time Its funny how people talk about young adult fiction, or junior fiction or whatever, as if its somehow lesser.
Its not. This was a hard read for many reasons, But a good one. I loved that the entire novel was really a letter, in a way, Theres a mystery at the center so I cant say too much more, But this YA book was short and sweet, I really liked it. This book was very good but there were some spots that affected my overall view of this book.
The reason for my rating was because of the description, the storyline, and because of the entertainment aspects of the book.
One of the reasons I think this book deserves four is because the description in the book is very well done.
The author goes into a ton of detail about every little thing and it assures that you will know everything about everything.
The facts and information you get about every detail help you understand the storyline, I think that the book went into a lot of detail but it might have been a little too much.
The storyline was a factor in what I thought about this book, It got a little repetitive at some points but other than that it kept me interested in what was going on in the book.
The same things happened over and over again but it didn't bother me too much, The story of the book was really wellformed but I just think that instead of the same things happening that something else could have happened to make the story end up the way it did.
I also really like how the author made this book entertaining and how she made it so you could keep reading it without getting bored.
I would give this specific section aboutbecause it got a little repetitive and boring at the beginning but other than that it was very well written.
As you can see, I gave this bookfor the storyline, the description, and the entertainment.
It could've easily gottenif there were certain aspects in the book but all in all, it was a very good one and I enjoyed reading it very much.
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