by Stephanie Kuehnert
3,5 starsLiked it but loved but not as much as the other book I've read by this author
It's truly amazing that any of us survive our teen years.I really liked Stephanie's first book:I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone, so when she came out with this one, I knew I was going to have to read it. I'm really glad I did because she deals with a lot of young adult issues that don't really get talked...
Ballads of Suburbia has me feeling exactly as I did after How To Kill A Rock Star, as in geez.. do I hate it or I love it? I was sucked in that’s for sure. Kara’s story is depressing and sad; the all of those others around her were equally so. One would think that stories such as the ones found her...
In Ballads of Suburbia it starts off with Kara coming back Oak Park after being gone for 4 years since she overdosed and almost died from heron, then it flashes back to when she started high school, before she started drugs. Through the whole book it goes through the process from someone not doing d...
I absolutely loved this book. It's written in a way that envelops you and takes you into the world in which these teens live. I love that things were not tied up neatly with a bow attached; that's not real life. Choices are made, bad things happen, but good things happen too. I wish more books w...
Back when I was reading only YA books, I came upon this book while I was browsing the shelves at Indigo in Downtown Toronto between some of my classes. There was something about this book that caught my attention. Maybe it was the cover, maybe it was the title or the back blurb, but I knew I just ha...
Ballads of Suburbia is about Kara, who returns to Oak Park after a heroin overdose four years prior. She tells the story, or 'ballad' of her high school years (up to junior year) where she was brought into the the life of drugs, booze, and music while her family fell apart and her old life slipped a...
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