When someone writes a book with realistic characters, it can be very hard to like them. Everyone can be a jerk, right? But for some reason many books have characters who are never jerks. Or else we don't get to see that jerky part of them in the book.
Say What You Will has a main character, Amy, who is real. And man, can she be a jerk. So she is really unlikable. Amy has
CP and so I think a lot of authors would make her this perfect person, apart from her CP. So super nice and understanding and a hero. But Amy is human and real and I would say more on the "jerk side" than the "non-jerk side" as a human. Matthew is the other main character, he has
OCD and is human, and doesn't really engage in any jerk behaviors, but he seems real, too.
This book took a lot of unexpected directions and was all very believable. This was
Cammie McGovern's first YA book and I really, really liked it. Her other books, one for YA and one for middle grade are available on CD but not download so I probably won't read them, just because I find the CDs to be way too slow. I like to listen to audiobooks on 2 or 3 times the speed, so I am out of luck until one of the downloadable sites get them! Boo! Because this book was very good (even with a jerky main character).
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