Review: This book needs the loving care of a good editor!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2012
I knew I was in for a rough ride when, by page 2, I was having difficulty reading through the poor spelling and grammar. I'm no grammar policeman, but it was really bad here. "You're dad is your pimp", as one blatant example of what I was dealing with. There were also many times in which names were misspelled: 'Carter' becomes 'Carted', and so on. This book needs the loving care of a good editor!Despite the amateur errors, I was able to finish reading the book. It turns out to be a roller-coaster of events which take place during the course of a high school boy and girl breaking up and getting back together again. Along the way, we experience all sorts of random things from toothbrush abortions to Listerine-chugging pregnant preteens. It's all a bit over the top, but perhaps being shocking is the name of the game here? I would suppose many vanilla people might be shocked at this book. It seems to poke at just about every taboo and deviancy that it can, while drenching every sentence with sex. That is not to say that it hits on all of them - the author doesn't seem to have as much experience as they try to push into their book. Again, the more vanilla readers might get a bit put off by this book, but it's really not that far into the dark side.My gut wants to say that this is a book written for teenagers, but with the level of storytelling regarding adult topics, I'm not sure that would be a wise target audience. Unfortunately, older people are just a bit too mature to relate to the story. I'm aware that the youth is not some model of purity and innocence, and they would be fine reading this book, but it doesn't mean it's material they should be reading.