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Rage: A Love Story

Julie Anne Peters

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Aug 28, 2009 Jennifer rated it really liked it

Shelves: teen-lgbtqia, teen-reality

This is an interesting and generally good book with a few annoying parts. It follows the story of a very fragile girl who watched her mom die, is queer and feels very alone in that and was abandoned emotionally by her older sister. She is obsessed with another girl Reeve, and when she finally "gets" her, the obsession only increases. Reeve, is even more damage3d comes from poverty, violence, drug abuse, and sexual abuse. She is violent and manipulative, and in her fragile state Johanna cannot se ...more

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Jul 12, 2009 Jennifer Wardrip rated it really liked it

Shelves: trt-posted-reviews, read-personally-by-moi

Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com

Don't let the hot pink cover and the label A Love Story deceive you. RAGE is Julie Anne Peters's most powerful book yet. The focus is on an abusive dating relationship and the toll it takes on victim and villain alike.

Two girls with their own personal dysfunctional family issues are drawn together by mutual feelings of love and lust.

Johanna has survived the death of both her parents and feels abandoned by her sister, whose choice wa ...more

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Jul 09, 2017 Megan rated it liked it

Shelves: coming-of-age, troubling-the-nuclear-family, queer, dyke-lit, ya, disability

I had trouble caring about or even really picturing these characters--everything they did, I was like - why? -- though it did hook me by the end. This is an abuse narrative; and also features a secondary character with autism. The last third is really good, a captivating and super real (critical) representation of the alluring toxicity of abusive young love.

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