This book by Sarah Dessen was not my favorite. Usually I love her books and they are really fun to read but i have to say for this book on a scale of one t ten it would be a 7. I liked it and everything and it was interesting but there wasn't any really dramatic parts in the book and that disapointed me. I like dramatic books or books with a big problem going on. This book had many little problems but not a BIG one. Instead of having a story mountain i feel like it was a highway with tiny bumps in the road.
In the book the characters main concern is her hight. Yes that might be a problem for the character but as a reader who is not extreamly tall it was not very easy to realate to her problems, and i couldn't really see why being tall was such a problem for her.
As we always learn in writing you have to think of the reader. The problem of being 5 foot 11 inches at age 15 is a problem that some readers might relate to but unfortunately this reader was not me and i don't think any other 8th grader readers at least at our school are going to face.
The one other problem in the book she had was the fact that her dad cheated on the mom and ran off with the local weather girl. That was interesting but the only way she talked about it was when the main character was complaining about it which you can understand is pretty annoying. One thing I always wonder is why do writers think their readers will like to hear their character complain if normal people don't like to hear complaining. I think somethimes they need to use the complaints to get a message throught the readers mind but most of the time it is just as annoying to hear a character complain as it is to hear a human do it.
In the book the characters main concern is her hight. Yes that might be a problem for the character but as a reader who is not extreamly tall it was not very easy to realate to her problems, and i couldn't really see why being tall was such a problem for her.
As we always learn in writing you have to think of the reader. The problem of being 5 foot 11 inches at age 15 is a problem that some readers might relate to but unfortunately this reader was not me and i don't think any other 8th grader readers at least at our school are going to face.
The one other problem in the book she had was the fact that her dad cheated on the mom and ran off with the local weather girl. That was interesting but the only way she talked about it was when the main character was complaining about it which you can understand is pretty annoying. One thing I always wonder is why do writers think their readers will like to hear their character complain if normal people don't like to hear complaining. I think somethimes they need to use the complaints to get a message throught the readers mind but most of the time it is just as annoying to hear a character complain as it is to hear a human do it.
You have an extremely good point. Complaining about being tall would only apply to someone that is tall compared to someone that is kind of short or middle height that would like to be taller.
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