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Böse Freundin (2000)

by Myla Goldberg(Favorite Author)

2.77 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: Fairly rich writing that I will not pick at apart except for the main character referring to her mother as a 3-year old would (Mommy). The story could have gone so many ways with such a good mystery at the heart of it...however it fell flat and ended so suddenly that I felt totally cheated. Some parts were questionable, like the hint that the picked-on Leanne was now actually Lee. If the girl Djuna had fallen into a hole, why did none of the search crews and dogs ever locate her remains, especially when the place was razed for construction? and the ending! the mention of the brown volvo, clearly implicated Djuna's own mother!
review 2: Eleven-year-olds Celia Durst and Djuna Pearson are best friends, queen bees, and mean girls, as likely to turn on each other as... more the wannabes and hangers-on who vie for their favor. Until one day after school, when Djuna gets into a stranger's brown sedan and disappears forever.Twenty years later, Celia is suddenly overcome by a long-repressed memory that packs a wallop. There was no brown sedan, there was no stranger. Celia remembers that the story she told their friends, parents, and the police wasn't the truth, that something very different happened to Djuna that day in the woods.But when she returns to her hometown to confess her role in the tragedy, she discovers that no one else seems to remember Djuna's disappearance - or their friendship- the way that she does.Goldberg (Bee Season) turns in a story about bullying, unhealthy childhood friendships, and the unreliability of our memories that is both penetrating and thought-provoking. Readers who enjoy this book might also like Laura Lippman's latest novel, I'd Know You Anywhere, about a woman who is psychologically manipulated by the man who kidnapped her when she was a teenager.Reviewed by Mary McCoy, Senior Librarian, Teen'Scape less

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