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The Best And Hardest Thing (2010)

by Pat Brisson(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0670011665 (ISBN13: 9780670011667)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Viking Juvenile

review 1: It was decent enough, a nice fast read that kept my interest. I had a couple hours to waste and this was a good way to do that. but towards the end it came across to much as a cautionary tale. It took the focus from the main character molly, and instead rehashed over and over again the perils of teen pregnancy. It felt to me like the last chapters just had a huge sign that said "USE CONDOMS, KIDS". But, up until then I enjoyed it. It's unfortunate that the last quarter of it left a bad taste in my mouth. I like novels in verse, almost as much as I love just straight poetry. And i knew with this one that there was a chance it'd be slightly preach-y. but I still hoped. I think as long as you know that this is a book with a "message", you'll thoroughly enjoy it as it is an ok... more book. I doubt I'll read it again.
review 2: I can't begin to tell you how impressed I am with authors that can write novels using poems. I also have a deep interest in teen pregnancy, so of course I was excited to read this book. It was....good, but a little disappointing. A little more than half the book was just about her trying to reinvent herself in order to impress a guy. It was the guy that was the father of the child she carried. In a story of teen pregnancy, it's good to mention the father somewhere, but this book spent way to long on it. Like I said, it took up about half the book. It was also a little too predictable. I mean, obviously I knew before hand she was going to be pregnant in the book, but it literally was like, "I have this box of condoms so I won't be pregnant. I'm going to remember to take one with me so I won't be pregnant. Wait, I don't think I saw him put one on. I sure do hope he doesn't impregnate me! Gee, I hope that didn't just make me pregnant. Oh no! I'm pregnant!" If I had written the book, I would have made it so either no form of birth control was mentioned, or the birth control fails. But, alas, I don't completely hate the book. The wide range of styles impressed me (most books written in poems stick with one style only, which is fine, but the fact that this book did a lot of different ones made it seem more daring). There were some poems from it that I really liked. Basically what I'm trying to say is the story itself could have been improved, but the book's prose was still really good. less

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