by Donna Jo Napoli
Sep has vitiligo, an autoimmune disease which causes white spots to occur on her body. It began on her lips, spread to her hands and before long she is on a mission to cover the spots which she checks for almost daily. Being in high school, she feels her peers will ridicule her so she goes to great ...
I gave in and borrowed my brother’s laptop to post this review. I stopped reading this book awhile ago, and wrote the review, thinking I would just email it to myself and post it once I had my computer access back. But, it’s been a couple weeks—and my files are still backing up. So here we are—I mig...
I should know better than to read a Donna Jo Napoli ARC. I really should, and now I am kicking myself in the shin with my other foot for requesting it. What possessed me? Because now I am left to write a negative review for a book that sounded interesting but disappointed me as a reader—and I knew i...
2.5 stars. This book was weird and awkward and I don't know how to go about reviewing the darn thing. Sep was a girl who faced all of the same problems in life which any other teen girl would face - only with the added problem of having random parts of her skin turning white in patches, from out of ...
Sep is a character that is easy to relate to and it was a journey being in her head. She is realistic and although dealing with some hard issues and emotional, still brought humor and sarcasm to the table. I can't imagine waking up and my lips being white, wondering what was wrong with me, and i...