by Francine Prose
It's not as good as I expected, but it's not too shabby either. There was time I really enjoyed the book. the problem is the repetition. I know that the book is about assault and everything, but there are still too many times that the word "Boobs/Breasts" was mentioned.
Although I'm a longtime fan of Francine Prose's Reading Like a Writer, this is actual the first piece of her fiction that I've read. Giving how much (both qualitatively and quantitatively) Prose thinks about the writing of fiction, I was expecting something interesting and I was not disappointed. Pr...
This book is hard to read. We go through so many emotional rides with the characters and her feelings. After such a dramatic event Masie just froze. Lines were crossed where they shoudn't have been and major trust was broken. Despite everything, Masie was strong. She stood with her held high and did...
Maisie has always been best friends with Shakes, Chris, and Kevin. She hasn't ever had "girl" friends and it has never seemed strange to her that she always hung out with the three boys. They treated her just like one of the guys - until Maisie goes away for a year to live with her mother. After de...
Maisie had 3 BFFs since preschool, and they happened to be boys. They used to be really tight until returned from a year-long visit with her mother sporting D-cup breasts. Maisie was no longer a kid, and neither were her 3 male buddies. Confusion, raging hormones, and peer pressure cause a rift in t...
Nobody knows what really happened that day on the school bus. Not even Maisie knows the truth of what happened to her anymore. The boys, her former best friends, say one thing. Maisie tells a different story. Who is actually telling the truth? Are either of them telling the truth or only their versi...
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