Title: begins well but then fizzles like a bad science experiment
Product review: I bought "catalyst" because "speak" (by the same author) is one of my most favorite books. However, "Catalyst" is NOTHING like "Speak" and so readers should not be expect it to be. "Catalyst" is suppossed to be about a senior in high school on the verge of "losing it" due to a number of stressors, dissapointments, and pent-up emotions. Instead the book follows the stories of both the senior, Kate Malone, and a school outcast, Teri Litch. By the middle of the book it is not even clear who the story is more about, kate or teri. the most disapointing thing for me is that there is no catalyst for kate. It seems that her own problems and emotions are never confronted because her life suddenly changes when she is forced to deal with all of teri's life issues and problems.
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