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Girl Out Loud (2012)

by Emily Gale(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0545304385 (ISBN13: 9780545304382)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Chicken House

review 1: Kass Kennedy just wanted to be normal. She just wanted to fit in, have friends and be completely average. Kass's father and mother don't exactly help her be normal though... They make Kass change in all sorts of ways. After all sorts of changes in her family, Kass vigorously tries to fix all the problems in her life, but Kass finds that that's not exactly how things always work out. This is a story of romance, betrayal, and the importance of family.
review 2: Kassidy is a 15 year old in Australia with an emotionally absent mother, a deliquent younger brother, and a mentally fragile father. Kassidy can't sing, but her father is obsessed with getting her on a reality TV music competition, which her mother enables and her little brother ignores. Add frenemy issues... more, a parental affair, the usual school drama, and a cute boy who pushes her too far sexually, and you've got one exhausting novel on your hands. While the focus on mental illness (father is clearly bipolar) and how it affects families is an important topic, readers may also find the plot too much (how many "issues" can be crammed in one book?). I wanted to give this book a R rating for its choice of subject matter and writing quality, but the plot kept piling on more and more issues on poor Kassidy and the writing turned quite didactic at times. less

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