Alice Oseman
RELEASE DATE: March 30, 2015
This debut novel evokes a traditional to current a lady trying to find one thing true.
Tori Spring is a disaffected teenager: She will nearly by no means end a movie in a single sitting, she’s good however cannot care about college anymore, and he or she dislikes her pals however is unwilling to forgo their firm. About the one factor she cares about is her brother Charlie, who’s recovering from an consuming dysfunction. When a mysterious weblog known as Solitaire begins triggering pranks at her college, Tori is not too , even when unusual new boy Michael Holden tries to make her be. Tori’s too trapped in her head, too satisfied the entire world sucks, to care about Michael’s overtures of friendship or the arrival at her college of an previous pal, Lucas. However when Solitaire‘s pranks cross strains and folks begin getting harm, Tori will probably be pressured to find if the world has something good in it. Like Holden Caulfield, Tori is on the lookout for one thing that isn’t phony, however whereas the story roughly achieves its objective of evoking a modern-day, English The Catcher within the Rye, it’s nonetheless not very partaking. Solely Michael and Charlie are more likely to have interaction readers’ sympathies, whereas Tori’s unpleasantness makes it onerous to see why Michael and Lucas are so fixated on her.
Nonetheless, Oseman’s novel will probably be widespread with those that worship Holden.
(Fiction. 14-18)
Pub Date: March 30, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-06-233568-5
Web page Depend: 368
Writer: HarperTeen
Overview Posted On-line: Jan. 9, 2015
Kirkus Opinions Subject: Jan. 15, 2015
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