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Love Drugged (2010)

by James Klise(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0738721751 (ISBN13: 9780738721750)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Flux

review 1: An entertaining read with an interesting premise: What if a drug became available that eliminated same-sex desire? For Jamie, a freshman in high school who just wants to blend in, this possibility seems like the answer to his prayers. Perhaps he doesn't have to be gay after all. Perhaps he won't have to come out to his parents and friends. Perhaps he can be a proper boyfriend to beautiful, rich Celia Gamez, a classmate who seems inexplicably interested in him. Although the novel ends too quickly and all of the conflicts are resolved too easily, the story is engaging and the characters, particularly Jamie and Celia, sympathetic. Additionally, the book raises a number of important, audience (teen) appropriate questions: Can you ever change who you are? Should you ever... more change how you feel? What risks would you be willing to take -- what would you be willing to do to yourself -- to be something or someone else? A good addition to any middle or high school collection.
review 2: To put this bluntly, I chose to read the book Love Drugged by James Klise because 1. I thought the cover was cute, and two, it seemed interesting to read about and step into the life of a gay fifteen-year-old who’d do just about anything to become straight but come out of the closet. This story is about a teen named Jamie Bates who’d do whatever it took to become straight. Just the thought of revealing himself as homosexual terrifies him. He falls in love with a the richest, prettiest girl in all of school named Celia, and they date. After spending months together, she wants to take it to the next level and sleep with him, but he still doesn’t know if he’s in love with her in the friend kind of way, or in the madly in love way. Celia’s dad who is a doctor master-minds a way to blackmail Jamie into continuously taking a drug called Rehomoline which would take away Jamie’s lust for other men, and it seems like everything goes down hill from then..or so you think. My favorite quote from this selection is on pg.285, where Jamie says: “What good could come from a pill that removed a person’s capacity for desire? I couldn’t believe I had willingly taken the pills for months, thinking they would make me straight-- a whole different person. Instead, all they did was strip away the essence of what made me a person.” This is my favorite quote because now, when Jamie is wondering why he took the pills in the first place, he is realizing that he is wrong, and that he should love himself whether he is straight or gay, he doesn’t need to change himself because of what other people might think of him. Moreover, what was unique about the author’s writing style was that I literally could NOT put this book down! Although it lacked interesting descriptions, especially during the most dramatic parts of the book, the plot was by far amazing, original, and creative. It kept me turning page after page, and I finished reading the book in one day. I would recommend this book to anyone like me who is interested in reading about the conflicts of a boy struggling to conceal his sexual orientation and anyone thinking about over dosing on drugs/pills because this book shows me that even though Jamie took but one pill a day, he still had major side effects like spaz-attacks, migraines, fatigue, and much more. Lastly, I would recommend this book to anyone who is in the same spot as Jamie was, struggling to conceal his or her sexual orientation because even though all along Jamie was trying to change himself and magically make himself straight, in the end he realized that it wasn’t possible, and that he shouldn’t let some stupid doctor try to change who he is. less

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