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Review title: Fresh? Brutally Honest? No.
Product review: The writing is incredibly unsophisticated, which indicates one of two things: the writer is simply an unsophisticated writer or the writer was shooting for the "voice" of a teen, in which case she failed because no teen talks with that mixture of bad poetry and dimwittedness the writer attempts in this book. The fragments really put me off: lots of empty words, no substance. The whole opening fragment, for example, should have been cut from day one. Sex and drugs and masturbation are issues not often covered in a "fresh" or "brutally honest" way. This author is neither fresh, nor brutally honest. She's self-absorbed and artless. So is her character. This is one of those books that everyone would freak out over if a sixteen year-old had written it one crazy summer between sophomore and junior year. This proud holder of an MFA from Sarah Lawrence would do better as a staff reporter for the National Inquirer.
