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Art Girls Are Easy (2013)

by Julie Klausner(Favorite Author)

2.82 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0316243620 (ISBN13: 9780316243629)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Poppy

review 1: This is a great example of the difference and significance of a Hipster vs. a person from/part of the community. AGAE is a Hipster. It is doing everything it can to put of this image off cool like talking about sex openly, but without depth. Instead, it's tasteless and annoying. The "substance" of this book is this idea of artsy characters with mystery and originality without any actual story to tell or original thought to share. Do I think this book could have had some potential? Yes, actually, but the writer needs to step back and just get to know her characters rather than trying to make her characters, her plot, and her book overall sound like it's awesome. Please, please write something I can take something from instead of this lifeless popular kid-book that doesn't o... moreffer me anything. I, even, tried to fight for a theme of friendship, but even that, my last thread of hope, fell completely flat. I could write paragraph after paragraph about everything wrong with this book, but I'll just leave it at this... The title doesn't actually make any sense, the characters are not developed, and the plot will literally have you turning over the book looking for more pages because it goes absoultely no where! Then you realize not only did the plot go no where, but you have wasted your time with the phony, wannabe when you could have in search of an actual great novel.
review 2: Yeah, this book isn't great. In all fairness to Klausner, I think she did a pretty good job of approximating the tone and general themes of young adult fiction -- I asked a friend of mine who is a more avid reader of YA if a key plot point in the book was a common theme in YA, and she confirmed it was -- but there's something really awkward about this particular story. There is obviously a lot going on in terms of sexuality as a teenager, something that I think Klausner does a decent job of tapping into. Young women as teenagers are just starting to grow into their more adult bodies, and how they navigate the newfound attention their bodies draw from men. Klausner errs on the side of creepy, edging into a crush on an older man that turns into (slightly) more. Plus, there's a lot of backstabbing, which becomes almost confused at many points. Ultimately, I think Klausner used this book as an experiment to see if YA could be her thing. It was ultimately an unsuccessful experiment, but I don't blame her for trying. The YA trend is hot right now, so she might as well try to strike iron. less

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