spoiler, maybe....? I have no clue what I feel about this book. I literally just put the thing down not 5 minutes ago. YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE ME WITH AN ENDING LIKE THAT!! WTF is this author, Julie Anne Peters, trying to do to me? Because after reading this book and just doing that..... I am seriou...
Peters is an accomplished author of LGBT YA novels and shows her expertise in this novel. This is the first novel I have read in the YA genre that successfully uses the 2nd person point of view. At some points, in the beginning this perspective is a bit off-setting, however the continuation of th...
I went into this one a little skeptical. Julie Anne Peters is not afraid of writing books with unhappy endings, but honestly, I just don't want to read them. Thankfully, this is not a depressing book despite the depressing setup. It's a wonderful and very sweet love story that completely sucked m...
This was a good book. It deals with two girls who are the complete opposite of each other, counseling each other through their problems. Both girls have family troubles and issues. In school they are paired up in a peer counseling program. Antonia is the counselor who is told to that she needs to...
The characters were much less cartoonish in this book than the previous one, and the mystery plot was really strong, and kept me guessing right up until the culprit finally confessed. Jenny's voice was also less annoying, and her jokes less cheesy, and more intelligent. I didn't necessarily feel...
The plot of this story is not really much of anything new. What makes this book unique is the character development and the quality of writing. Very few authors could name their character something as ridiculous as Prairie Cactus and still keep me invested in the story. Jenny's dark sense of humo...
If you've been following me for a while, you'll know that I love Peters books, and even though I have a stack of books on the waiting to be read pile, I couldn't wait to start reading it when I got it last week. And I really enjoyed it. Admittedly, I didn't click with it when I first started, whi...
i'm on a semi-professional kick of reading books with young protagonists dealing with sexual awakening. it's semi-professional because, while i'm slated to teach a class about teens' sexuality, teaching is never far from the soft nub of my life, and i tend to teach what my mind is working at figu...