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...
In this honest, emotionally captivating short story collection, renowned author and National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters offers a stunning portrayal of young women as they navigate the hurdles of relationships and sexual identity. From the young lesbian taking her first steps toward co...
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...
Nick has a three-legged dog named Lucky, some pet fish, and two moms who think he's the greatest kid ever. And he happens to think he has the greatest Moms ever, but everything changes when his birth mom and her wife, Jo, start to have marital problems. Suddenly, Nick is in the middle, and instea...
Sweat it out, I figured. Burn it off. Get all the ugliness out of me. Jamie showed up sometime around my third circuit to bribe Renata into letting him use the tanning bed for free. I heard him in there, sucking up to her, telling her how accurate her horoscope reading had...
“You’re so stupid.” I take the phone into the hall, sit on the floor with my back to the wall, and flatten my feet against the opposite wall. Tessa used to shimmy up the wall by pushing with her feet and wriggling her back. She called it the spider. As a kid I was always too short, but Tessa woul...
Chris’s voice, coming from Chris’s body, which was sending out sound waves and heat waves next to me. “Hey,” he said. Whole language abandoned me. Fortunately, my English book chose that moment to streak off the top shelf of my locker and crash to the floor. As I bent to pick it up, Chris did too...
For one thing Vanessa wasn’t practicing. She sat at the kitchen table, staring off into wall plaster. When she saw me, she blinked and pressed a finger to her lips. “What?” Then I heard it. Or felt it. Charged linoleum, powered by the bellowing from the basement. “I thought we agreed to do this t...