True Believer
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780807206935 (0807206938)
Publish date: January 22nd 2002
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Contemporary,
Poetry,
Glbt,
High School
Series: Make Lemonade (#2)
Re-read. Strong and believable characters make this novel in verse stand out. There's a strong undercurrent of love which redeems the grimmer moments. I liked the subplot about LaVaughn's friends being drawn into a Christian chastity movement, and I found the rest of it right on.
Re-read. It's so easy to tip over the edge, writing books in verse. VEW does not, she stays close to the bone, spare and even grim but always hopeful.