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I still don't know about this one. It's the first time I thought a book needed a huge TRIGGER WARNING on it. From some of the early buzz I read, I thought there'd be more love of the '90s. I wasn't expecting it to be so graphic and violent. There were aspects that made me cringe while reading.
I felt for Hannah Dexter. I could relate to her lonely existence. At some point every teenager feels like that, right? Heck, I even felt that way through most of coll ...more
I still don't know about this one. It's the first time I thought a book needed a huge TRIGGER WARNING on it. From some of the early buzz I read, I thought there'd be more love of the '90s. I wasn't expecting it to be so graphic and violent. There were aspects that made me cringe while reading.
I felt for Hannah Dexter. I could relate to her lonely existence. At some point every teenager feels like that, right? Heck, I even felt that way through most of coll ...more
Hannah Dexter was nobody until Lacey came along, shortly after Craig's bizarre suicide. Now she's Dex, and turns from bland into grunge. Lacey challenges her to do things beyond her comfort zone, until Lacey gets her in trouble, and abandons her at a critical moment. But Lacey has her own side of the story, one that involves Craig's girlfriend and queen bitch Nikki, and Hannah/Dex becomes a pawn in a test of loyalty: does she choose Lacey, the outcast, or Nikki, the embodiment of what society de
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As a proud grunge girl myself, the subject matter intrigued me. The book has a promising start: the awkward and unseen "good girl" who is secretly dying to break out of her shell...and of course the grungey/gothy/punky Kurt Cobain obsessed "bad girl"who befriends her. I liked their moments of freedom and rebellion, either driving to the lake in the middle of the night or by tagging the local anti-choice pregnancy clinic with funny (and poignant) slogans. But then the book totally devolves into a
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