It isn’t as smooth as it could be in places and it is, again, distracting. Other than that there were a couple of places there I found the writing a little big clunky. Maybe I wouldn’t do a certain thing that she would that I think that may have made it more difficult for me.
Sometimes its hard to understand why she made a specific decision, and often I just had to remember that I’m not this character. Some of her decisions don’t always really make sense to me, maybe because I can’t relate very well to them. It took me out of the story once in a while and I had to think about an analyze something that had happened. I AM saying that I found the character extremely distracting at one or two points in the story. It’s not always an easy book to read and I found myself tearing up a few times. In fact I think it’s actually very realistic, which is at times very uncomfortable. No one ever asks for something like this to happen. Let me be clear, I’m not saying the character asks for it. On the other hand the main character makes me so nuts at points that I had a hard time deciding how to feel about everything. It has a lot to say about teenagers, rape, and recover. On one hand I think this is a really important book. I’m usually pretty clear on my thoughts and it doesn’t take me a month to untangle them. It’s not often that I go back and forth so much on a book. Witty and poignant, Colleen Clayton’s stunning debut is a story about moving on after the unthinkable happens. Now, if she can just shake the nightmares and those few extra pounds, everything will be perfect.
But as she gets to know Corey (slacker, baker, total dreamboat), Sid finds someone who truly makes her happy. When she ends up on a ski lift next to handsome local college boy, Dax Windsor, she’s thrilled but Dax takes everything from Sid-including a lock of her perfect red curls-and she can’t remember any of it.īack home and unable to relate to her old friends, Sid drops her college prep classes and takes up residence in the A/V room with only Corey “The Living Stoner” Livingston for company. How can you talk about something you can’t remember?īefore the ski trip, sixteen-year-old Cassidy “Sid” Murphy was a cheerleader (at the bottom of the pyramid, but still.), a straight-A student, and a member of a solid trio of best friends. Published by Poppy (Little Brown Books for Young Readers) on October 9th 2012
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