![]() ![]() It's hard to know how much of what she believes to be true is actually true. For one thing, Jenna is not an especially reliable narrator. Bick does an amazing job of highlighting the difficulties of understanding such a case. At the outset, you don't know what's going on exactly, but you definitely have your suspicions and you're pretty sure it's bad. Obviously, this too is a completely dark and forbidden thing. The main plot is about Jenna's relationship with an older man, her science teacher Mr. The awfulness just keeps on rolling I only wish that there were not people out there who have likely actually lived lives like Jenna's. So yeah, going into it you know her family's a mess and that she is too, but you don't know the full extent of it. She's spent a year in an institution, put there after it was discovered that she'd been cutting. Like Anderson, she also focuses on teens, on the bad stuff - not the shiny vampires and the sweet first loves. ![]() She clearly has no problem plumbing the darkest and most terrifying of human emotions. Bick will come to be recognized alongside authors like Laurie Halse Anderson. What an incredibly dark and well-done novel. ![]()
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