Book Review: "Undiscovered Gyrl" by Allison Burnett
So occasionally, since I am a superlibrarian, I get advance copies of books. I read about this one on a blog somewhere, and it magically appeared on our ARC shelf. Score!
First thing's first: The "gyrl" thing bugs me. In fact, there are a lot of things that stem from the blog format that bug me. I cringed at the typos. Is it too much to ask for our heroine to use Firefox?
So this book started out as a set of entertaining blog entries from a 17 year old who is fooling around with someone 15 years her senior. I might have related to that just a bit. But it didn't take long for me to lose my ability to relate to "Katie". It took a turn for the serious, as she became more and more self destructive and obsessed with finding Prince Charming, but really, how many people ever related to Go Ask Alice? I have to remind myself that sometimes a good book can have a character you don't relate to. Despite all this, I found myself sucked into this world with its backdrop of the election of last year and its cast of fuck-ups. And then came the last few entries. Let's just say I was not expecting those. They'll make you want to reread the book immediately, just to see if it doesn't take on a whole new meaning the second time around.
First thing's first: The "gyrl" thing bugs me. In fact, there are a lot of things that stem from the blog format that bug me. I cringed at the typos. Is it too much to ask for our heroine to use Firefox?
So this book started out as a set of entertaining blog entries from a 17 year old who is fooling around with someone 15 years her senior. I might have related to that just a bit. But it didn't take long for me to lose my ability to relate to "Katie". It took a turn for the serious, as she became more and more self destructive and obsessed with finding Prince Charming, but really, how many people ever related to Go Ask Alice? I have to remind myself that sometimes a good book can have a character you don't relate to. Despite all this, I found myself sucked into this world with its backdrop of the election of last year and its cast of fuck-ups. And then came the last few entries. Let's just say I was not expecting those. They'll make you want to reread the book immediately, just to see if it doesn't take on a whole new meaning the second time around.