Summary
Mari Tan, Soleil Johnson, and Penny Panzarella finally meet their all-time favorite author, Fatima Ro. The best part is, she wants to be FRIENDS with them! Could their lives get any better? She actually wants to know about them and their lives, including the parts about their mysterious friend Jonah... How were these girls supposed to know what would happen in the end?
Secrets were uncovered and people were hurt and betrayed in this dramatic and suspenseful book. Through a compilation of journal entries, interviews, and a book (within a book!), their story involving the famous author comes to light. None of them expected her to do what she did. Some of them didn't even blame her for it.
Opinion
Scale of 1-10:
6
So first, I'm going to start off with the pros and what I found very cool about this book:
Lately, I've been really wanting to get into the fiction teen/young adult books and I've been enjoying it. What I really liked about this book, is how it was written. It wasn't your run of the mill beginning-to-end book. There were interview transcripts, and journal entries, and the book that the author in the story wrote. At first I was really unsure about it but I then it really started to grow on me. I also really enjoyed the suspense of the first three quarters of the book. I was immensely curious to know what happened in Jonah's mysterious past. This book definitely kept me interested and I did actually enjoy the ending of the book.
Now for the cons:
One thing that I really look for in fiction books, is the humor. I've come to expect in books about murder or other dark elements that there won't be a lot of comedy. But I think the book is twenty times better with hints of sarcastic or dry sense of humor. This book, I'm disappointed to say, didn't have almost any humor in it. It was all, in my opinion, teenage angst and drama. I get that teenagers are super dramatic at times, but I also feel that there are funny elements when books are written from teen perspectives. I also felt that the characters didn't have a lot of substance to them.
Now, I understand that there are a lot of people that like books like this. I just personally like it when a book doesn't leave me feeling sad with a bad feeling. Even if it's more a dark book, I do enjoy a little humor in it here and there. I do grasp, though, why people would enjoy this book. It honestly is pretty intriguing and suspenseful in it's whole.
Age Rating
15-16+
So there's a couple of things in this book that are inappropriate. There are a couple of prolonged make-out scenes that do go into detail. There is a scene where it's implied two of the characters are going to have sex but they don't end up going through with it. There is also quite a bit of innuendos and sexual assault is discussed more in the second half of the book. Language wise, throughout the whole book, there are the words, "damn", "sh**", "b*tch", "f**k", and "ass". This also just kind of a dark book that deals with heavy topics that I think would be too much for younger teens.
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