My Sister’s Stalker by Nancy Springer
Stalkers creep me out, but I have read many other books by Nancy Springer, so I figured this would be handled well. In fact, it was a much better book than I expected.
The book opens with a teen boy insisting that he’s not a hero. His dad is a workaholic who thinks Rig is a slacker, his mom is kind of ditzy (but it works for her) who things Rig is wonderful, and his sister was his good friend before she went to college. So he Google’s his sister. Honors, gorgeous pictures, blah blah sis-is-fab, and a whole web page devoted to photos of her.
Rig is creeped out by this page, and shows it to his mom. She thinks its adorable. He thinks it’s horrible, but doesn’t do anything because maybe he’s just imagining things? He’s a teen boy, after all, and obsessed with s-e-x, according to all statistics. But there are more pictures the next day, and then there are pictures taken through her bedroom window.
Scary.
Scary enough for Rig to get on the wrong bus in the morning, skip school, and head for his dad’s office. Dad takes charge in his workaholic-I-know-everything way, but Rig still feels he has something to contribute. In fact, he finds details that his father misses, which may or may not be useful when they talk to the police.
Sis is horrified when she finds out that someone is stalking her. Rig is determined to protect her, but it turns out to be more dangerous than he thought… Dad is annoyed at his slacker kid, but by the end of the book, all four people in the family have a new view of each other.
My Sister’s Stalker is a short book - but it packs a big punch. It’s a story with all non-essentials cut away, leaving an intense experience. It leaves me wanting to check out Nancy Springers previous books to see if I missed anything good.
The book opens with a teen boy insisting that he’s not a hero. His dad is a workaholic who thinks Rig is a slacker, his mom is kind of ditzy (but it works for her) who things Rig is wonderful, and his sister was his good friend before she went to college. So he Google’s his sister. Honors, gorgeous pictures, blah blah sis-is-fab, and a whole web page devoted to photos of her.
Rig is creeped out by this page, and shows it to his mom. She thinks its adorable. He thinks it’s horrible, but doesn’t do anything because maybe he’s just imagining things? He’s a teen boy, after all, and obsessed with s-e-x, according to all statistics. But there are more pictures the next day, and then there are pictures taken through her bedroom window.
Scary.
Scary enough for Rig to get on the wrong bus in the morning, skip school, and head for his dad’s office. Dad takes charge in his workaholic-I-know-everything way, but Rig still feels he has something to contribute. In fact, he finds details that his father misses, which may or may not be useful when they talk to the police.
Sis is horrified when she finds out that someone is stalking her. Rig is determined to protect her, but it turns out to be more dangerous than he thought… Dad is annoyed at his slacker kid, but by the end of the book, all four people in the family have a new view of each other.
My Sister’s Stalker is a short book - but it packs a big punch. It’s a story with all non-essentials cut away, leaving an intense experience. It leaves me wanting to check out Nancy Springers previous books to see if I missed anything good.