This 400 plus page book by Lauren Myracle flew by as if it were less than 150 pages. Bliss is NOTHING like The Winnie Years or The Internet Girls series or even Kissing Kate. This book will be very disturbing for anyone who thinks they are reading something light and fluffy for a summer read. There are people and entities in this book that are as scary, well almost, as The Four PTSs. i mean this book is NOT for the faint of heart. Bliss is a sincerely sweet, peace-loving high school freshman who comes by the 'peace-loving' honestly, as her parents are hippies. Real hippies, as Bliss is set in 1969, The Summer of Love. Bliss's parents have run off to Canada so that Dad Bliss can dodge the draft. Bliss is sent to Atlanta to live with her very proper and wealth grandmother, who is pretty disappointed in how Bliss's mom turned out, but I think she's more sad from missing her, than judgemental. She seems like a good egg. Anyway, Bliss starts high school at a private school that years and years ago used to be a convent. It was then, years and years ago, that a young novice committed suicide by jumping out of a window. One of the girls in Bliss's class is obsessed with this story of the novice who killed herself and well, the the book is told from Bliss's POV but also, interspersed in the book there are excepts from the obsessed girl's diary. These are FREAKY. There are also excepts from the trial of Charles Manson and the Family, and some other well-chosen and well-placed quotes FREAKY. There are also excepts from the trial of Charles Manson and the Family, and some other well-chosen and well-placed quotes and really showcases Myracle's depth as a writer. Fantastic, creepy oh-so-different from Myracle's or anyone else's books. Nearly impossible to put down.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
CREEPY GOODNESS!
This 400 plus page book by Lauren Myracle flew by as if it were less than 150 pages. Bliss is NOTHING like The Winnie Years or The Internet Girls series or even Kissing Kate. This book will be very disturbing for anyone who thinks they are reading something light and fluffy for a summer read. There are people and entities in this book that are as scary, well almost, as The Four PTSs. i mean this book is NOT for the faint of heart. Bliss is a sincerely sweet, peace-loving high school freshman who comes by the 'peace-loving' honestly, as her parents are hippies. Real hippies, as Bliss is set in 1969, The Summer of Love. Bliss's parents have run off to Canada so that Dad Bliss can dodge the draft. Bliss is sent to Atlanta to live with her very proper and wealth grandmother, who is pretty disappointed in how Bliss's mom turned out, but I think she's more sad from missing her, than judgemental. She seems like a good egg. Anyway, Bliss starts high school at a private school that years and years ago used to be a convent. It was then, years and years ago, that a young novice committed suicide by jumping out of a window. One of the girls in Bliss's class is obsessed with this story of the novice who killed herself and well, the the book is told from Bliss's POV but also, interspersed in the book there are excepts from the obsessed girl's diary. These are FREAKY. There are also excepts from the trial of Charles Manson and the Family, and some other well-chosen and well-placed quotes FREAKY. There are also excepts from the trial of Charles Manson and the Family, and some other well-chosen and well-placed quotes and really showcases Myracle's depth as a writer. Fantastic, creepy oh-so-different from Myracle's or anyone else's books. Nearly impossible to put down.
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