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The Secret Diary Of Ashley Juergens (2010)

by Ashley Juergens(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

140132407X (ISBN13: 9781401324070)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Hyperion

review 1: I decided to read this novel, because it was the only diary (though fictional) i could find. I prefer reading fictional diaries because the character's lives are left up to the author's imagination, which in my opinion makes for a much more engaging plot than real-life events, which i tend to find boring. Ashley's quote pretty much sums up my opinion of this book: "Sure, it's interesting at first, but after a while it gets exhausting." I liked it at the beginning, but the same story again and again got extremely boring at times.This novel is the documented journey of opinionated, rebel, Ashley, as she goes through her parents divorce, her sister's teen-pregnancy and preparing for high-school. What starts off as a punishment from her principal, to write in this journal, gra... moredually becomes a lifeline, keeping her from insanity, from her crazy, psycho family.This book completes the category: a diary, autobiography or biography.A quote i found interesting was: "She only had two reasons listed under the "stay with dad" column: Amy and Ashley." This quotes was interesting because it completely made sense that a mother would sacrifice being happy to give her children a stable family, though the protagonist completely wrote this reason off, to be silly.Something i learned from this book is to fight for what you want. Ashley showed me this by fighting so hard, against everyone else, to stop her sister putting the baby up for adoption.A character that was interesting to me was Ben, the boyfriend (but not father) of Ashley's pregnant sister. He was interesting because he was clearly willing to give everything to Amy and her baby, while Amy was moody, angry and seemed to have feelings for the biological father, Ricky. This made me really feel for Ben, though it doesn't say what happened regarding this love triangle, in the end.
review 2: Let me start off by saying I love The Secret Life of an American Teenager, the TV show. Since I love the show, I figured I would love the book too. I liked the book, but to be honest it felt like I was watching a re-run of the show and I'm not a huge fan of re-runs... I don't even re-read books (not even the ones I LOVE) ! When I know what's going to happen and there aren't any kind of surprises in it for me, I get bored and tend to stop reading... which is kind of what I did with this book. I read a little more than halfway into the book and stopped.I really loved Ashley's attitude through out the book though! It was almost more entertaining than the plot sometimes. The plot was entertaining; But, I read something about the book having exciting new moments from episodes (to be aired) so needless to say, I was a little disapointed. One of the main reasons I read the book was to read a few sneak peeks of new episodes. I guess that was old news though... because the whole book had nothing to do with episodes even close to airing now. And even though I didn't read the whole book, I looked ahead... to the last few pages... and everything was still a little too familiar (old) to me.I really wish there was some dialogue. I never thought dialogue was so important until I read this book. I think I NEED dialogue in order to get through a book now, which may be a reason why I didn't get all the way through this one. I didn't want to give this book that bad of a rating because I think someone that hasn't seen the TV show yet, might really enjoy them; Or someone that LOVES the TV show more than anything will really like them! less

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