by Meg Wolitzer
May 4, 2015Book review is up on
The nicest things I can say about this book are, the literary refrences were cool and it was well written. Overall I was disgusted by the plot and the basis behind these kids and their problems and how they deal with them. I definately would not let my teenager read this book.
I liked the premise of Belzhar, but the execution did not always work for me. Sure it has a very strange turn of events that I was not expecting, but it's the way everyone acted about these events that bothered me most. I get that this world of Belzhar—an alternative reality this “breakfast club” jo...
At first I had no desire to read this book, the cover did nothing for me and the synopsis looked rather boring so why did I pick it up? I have no idea, seriously. I was going through the new releases at the library and I just grabbed it and boy, am I glad that I did! Reading this as a buddy read wit...
A copy of this novel was provided by Simon & Schuster Australia for review. I just don't particularly know where to start talking about Belzhar. I know that I can say I had quite high hopes for this book – I mean, a girl who writes in a journal and is reunited with her dead boyfriend? Hells to the...
3.5 Stars.The synopsis of this book intrigued me, and the good ratings on the author’s other books on Goodreads sealed the deal. Even so, I was expecting this to be a bit of a tough read given the subject matter. But this wasn’t a story about wallowing, about staying stuck in the moments that we’ve ...
OVERALL IMPRESSION: I love reading books about boarding schools, and for some reason have this obsession with them, so I was really excited to start reading this. The students in the Special Topics class this year are studying the works of Sylvia Plath, and because of that after reading this I real...
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