Review: a really good read...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2012
This book was a little slow for me with not much happening until the very end. We go through the motions with Beckett as she goes through her entire senior year trying to get back to the social status she was at before the `incident', only making baby steps to get there. But don't get me wrong, I thought it was a good book. I was just kind of taken aback that so much seems to have changed since I was in high school *cough* about 15 years ago *cough*. I mean if one of my friends were to have taken a risqué picture they wouldn't have been harassed about it much or as long. But with Chloe and Beckett...it seems that this is the world we live in now. Bullying seem to be more and more now and I hate that for my daughters.What I didn't like was Beckett's attitude through it all, her throwing the blame on Chloe the whole time. She totally drops her for a few minutes of not being the school outcast, leaving Chloe to burden it all on her shoulders. I didn't feel for Beckett at all, I thought she was selfish and could have been a better friend. What I would have loved to have read was a POV through Chloe's eyes.Girl Over the Edge is a good story on peer pressure, bullying and how two friends try to overcome it all before they graduate. But what happens along the way may prove to be too much for one of them. Will Chloe find a way out or just end it all?*Please don't think I didn't like this book cause I really did. After writing the review then sleeping on it I can see how it might come across as I hated it. I just didn't like the actions Beckett took through out the story. Kinzer did a fabulous job and I look forward to more books by her.*