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I'm usually not a big fan of YA lit, though I love reading YA book reviews and also indiscriminately add them to my TBR. Speak surprised me. I actually connected with this book.
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Melinda is starting high school, but all her friends have deserted her after she called the cops in at a party and a few of them got arrested. All her ex-friends avoid her, with one mouthing "I hate you" at her. N ...more
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It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate and a stomachache.
Melinda is starting high school, but all her friends have deserted her after she called the cops in at a party and a few of them got arrested. All her ex-friends avoid her, with one mouthing "I hate you" at her. N ...more
Oct 02, 2010
Jenifer
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Honestly, it took me a while to get into the author's style of writing but once I did, the book was quite good. I think this is an important book for late tweens/teens to read and will have my daughter read it when she enters 7th or 8th grade.
I was happy with the ending but would have liked to see a little more of the consequences that "IT" faced in the end. ...more
I was happy with the ending but would have liked to see a little more of the consequences that "IT" faced in the end. ...more
This book ended better than it began. I was a little disappointed it took the main character so long to come to grips with her rape. Then there is no justice for the act and the perpetrator isn't even brought to trial. That being said, Melinda did learn to speak up for herself in the end when it counted.
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Nov 14, 2007
Joanna
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The plot/secret around which this young adult novel is built is entirely predictable, but the narrative voice is so strong that the plot is pretty much beside the point. The inner monologue of the narrator is pitch perfect and really resonated with me. While at times I wanted to wring her neck, Melinda is a compelling and overall reasonably sympathetic teen struggling with depression and her feelings about a specific bad event. I'll be on the lookout for Catalyst, another book set at the same hi
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Mar 31, 2010
Erin (NY)
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This book is so disturbing but really great! I felt so much for Melinda, and how cruel the world was to her.
Moving.
Feb 26, 2010
Sandra
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Nov 27, 2011
Frankie
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Mar 11, 2012
Jayme Pendergraft
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