Review: Not to be missed
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2013
I kept seeing the covers for GA on Netgalley as well as various friends on Goodreads marking it as TBR. It piqued my interest. Shortly after I requested to review a couple of the books on Netgalley I was invited to join the Coliloquy group and received a review copy of Season One in exchange for an honest review.Things I loved about the book:1. Strong women characters2. Many people eventually taking responsibility for their actions3. Good relations between parents and kids with real respect by kids for parents4. Drinking, drugs, sex was not played up as "fantastic" but was not ignored5. Authors attempted to tackle issues of being gay, classism, rape drugs, rape (fairly well handled didn't trigger me)6. Friendship, what does it mean, can it recover from betrayal7. Revenge, the good, bad, and the ugly8. Humor9. The ability to choose to follow particular girls for parts of stories (I always went back & followed all four)Things I didn't like as much1. Parents putting too much pressure on kids2. I would have liked to see at least one of the gay kids out-of-the-closetBeing in my mid-40s there were a few things that reminded me I was reading a YA book: teenage angst, focus on boys, if we can't be together my life might be over. But those were kept to a minimum and the rest of the story and characters were so fascinating that the YA issues didn't bother me as much as usual.