Author: Lindsey Lee Johnson
Type: Paperback
Read: 4th October 2017 - 11th October 2017
Rating: 4/5
Published: 24th August 2017 by Hodder & Stauton
In an idyllic community of wealthy California families, new teacher Molly Nicoll becomes intrigued by the hidden lives of her privileged students. Unknown to Molly, a middle school tragedy in which they were all complicit continues to reverberate for her kids: Nick, the brilliant scam artist; Emma, the gifted dancer and party girl; Dave, the B student who strives to meet his parents' expectations; Calista, the hippie outcast who hides her intelligence for reasons of her own. Theirs is a world in which every action may become public: postable, shareable, indelible. With the rare talent that transforms teenage dramas into compelling and urgent fiction, Lindsey Lee Johnson makes vivid a modern adolescence lived in the gleam of the virtual, but rich with the sorrow, passion, and beauty of life in any time, and at any age.
So i went from reading one book about high school to another. This one i found much more darker and edgier. It screamed attention. It screamed help. The book changes from one character to another and then also a teacher, who is new at the school and wants everyone to like her.
It's a fasinating look into school. It's like the teacher really wanted to please her students and the employees but often got too involved in their lives to realise what was best. I did like Molly and i felt for her at times. A new teacher, moved to a new area and not knowing the past of the school and its students. I thought some of the other members of staff were just horrible. It's like they were just hoping she'd fail from the get-go.
The students were a mixed bag. From the early part of the book when a tragedy occured to when Molly joins the school, then kids go from being probably friends in a round-about way to distancing themselves from each other. Making their own marks on the world/school without trying to get over the past, how what happened was a part of each student. How even changing who you are, who you are friends with and how hard yuo try at school can't make you forget or have the past catch up with you.
I can only say im glad i'm no longer in school. i think if this was happening, id' go crazier.
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