Title: Compelling but flawed
Review: I couldn't put this book down and had it read less than 24 hours after I got it. It was a compelling story. However, I had a hard time suspending my disbelief at the author's characterization of a 13-year-old girl's sexual development. It appears that every man Jasira comes in contact with lusts after her, and she inevitably performs some kind of sex act with him. Is the suburban world really filled with that many men who readily take advantage of 13-year-olds? I was a thirteen year old girl in 1990, and what I was thinking and feeling at that age was light years removed from Jasira. I was barely shaving my legs, and yet this book has repeated references to "personal grooming." It's not just the fetish of one character but everyone in the book seemed preoccupied by it.Jasira's saviors seem a little too perfect, and everyone else is terribly flawed. I think this book would have been less provocative (and more believable) if Jasira had been an older teenager.
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