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The Chocolate Money (2012)

by Ashley Prentice Norton(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0547840047 (ISBN13: 9780547840048)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Mariner Books

review 1: I devoured this book from beginning to end. Reminded me of a cross between Mommy Dearest and a Judy Blume coming of age novel. One of the reviews said that this book was at times "shocking." I thought I had been shocked beyond any new "shock," but the reviewer was right. Parts of this book are downright shocking. The Chocolate Money is a stunning coming of age story wrapped up in a fancy purple aluminum candy wrapper. I began to love Bettina and abhor her mother. The book ended okay, probably could have been beefed up, but the truth is that I miss the characters and the story. This one was hard to put down. I highly recommend.
review 2: Considering Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep is one of my favorite books, I quickly began to realize as I devoured this book ... morethat this had a ton of similarities - which I loved. I keep reading reviews about how it was terrible because it wasn't relatable and people can't get behind a story with characters so awful, but really? How many of us are multi millionaires? I loved that I couldn't necessarily relate and was able to get lost in this ridiculous world of Bettina & Babs. Especially near the end of the book, my heart broke with almost every interaction between the two characters, but it only made me love Bettina that much more, regardless of the stupid things she did at school. She's a teenager shipped away to a boarding school because her mother sucks at life and manipulates everything & everybody in her path. I wasn't even mad at the shocking end in relation to Babs because she sucked so bad that I longed for freedom for Bettina, no matter which way it came. This is where I come to the the nit picky part of my review - SO MANY GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. Okay, really only like four, but who is editing this?! I was outraged. I warned that it was nit picky problem… ;) All in all, I enjoyed this book a lot & can't wait for this author to write another. less

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