Prep
Review:
Thumbs down on this book. There were so many things I didn’t understand. I can’t tell if it’s because of how old the book is, or I just do not get the book's point. I also think I might be viewing the book from the wrong lens, but it’s still a little annoying. I don’t understand the main character and her motivations; it makes me so glad I don’t go to private school because she cares so much about other people's thoughts. She also seems to have a buttload of mental health issues, but they were never labeled or diagnosed. I swear she had bipolar disorder and depression on top of everything else. She also had this wearied obsession with dating, making it hard to relate to her. I felt like she was overcompensating and picked purposely out of her range guys. She seems to have a new crush every two minutes. She also tended to look at girls' butts and thighs which makes me think she likes girls who would be very ahead of her time. It almost seems like a book written by someone who had never been a teenager. I also do not understand the way writing is set up; she seemed to be talking in an autobiographical way, but I don’t think it is one. There are all these flashes to the future self's thoughts which make it very confusing. I can see how the book could be good for someone learning phycology, but strictly book-wise, it either didn’t hold up or was never written well to begin with (it was a man writing about a teenage girl- he obviously didn’t understand).
