by Carolyn Mackler
Froggy Welsh the Fourth is trying to get up my shirt.This is the third Monday that he's come over to my apartment after school. Every week we go a little further, and today, on September twenty-third at 3:17 P.M., he's begun inching his fingers across my stomach and towards my bra."Virginia?"I'm not...
...not bad. Not amazing, either. Virginia's actually a decent YA character, though she falls a little flat at times. I appreciated Mackler's willingness to tackle the subject of overweight as a teenager, and thought she handled it well. The emotional aspects of Virginia's self-acceptance and -expres...
If I have to hear Virginia's whinging narrative just once more, I think I'll slam my head against a brick wall.Good concept, but not executed well at all.Virginia, the plus size protagonist, complained about every aspect of her life but did nothing about it - except for a dodgy crash-diet - until th...
Barely three stars. Look, I like the message the author is trying to convey, but I think Melina Marchetta does it better in Saving Francesca. Heck, a lot of other authors did it better. But Carolyn Mackler did an okay job. Read Saving Francesca!
A well-written YA coming-of-age tale, that segues to an ending nowhere near the faily or trite ending I feared. Warnings for sexual violence and disordered eating/body image (dealt with well).
There were not a lot of likable characters in this book, save for the protagonist and perhaps her best friend. Even with that handicap, this book was involving and pretty funny in spots. I enjoyed watching Virginia mature a lot in a very believable way over the course of the story.
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