Torn: LOST Series #4 Audiobook

" One of my first Galleys!... And I'm just a bit disappointed how despite of its interestingly cooked up plot of good girl-bad girl best friendship coupled with older-guy romance on the side and racial issues, I'm still giving it a "Just okay" rating. The writing wasn't very bad but sometimes Stella Chavez's, the protagonist, voice just made me want to turn off my computer altogether. She's this nice Catholic girl who seems to have been blessed with so much decisiveness that she just couldn't help stay out of other people's businesses and let them decide for themselves on whether they want to mess up their lives or what. At the same time, I think she has all this repression inside of her, being a teen and so, and that was why she found it sort of an adventure that she was friends with the bad new girl Ruby and in turn experience all this "darker, cooler stuff" in life. There were also too many underlying stories that went unsolved and that was perhaps what primarily was my problem with this book. Yay!s -Explores a Lolita-esque theme where creepy, older guys get into relationships with girls who are practically still children but stupidly believe otherwise -Contains at least one solid and consistent character: Ruby Caroline! (At least I don't have to hate the name Ruby, because that would be awful, given that I COMPLETELY ADORE e. lockhart's Ruby Oliver novels) Boo!s -I think Yay! #1 is brave and all however, sadly, Stephanie Guerra wasn't quite able to get to the bottom of that. A wasted chance, I'd say. -So goes the same for what could have been an exciting angle of Stella being a Mexican. -And while Stella suffers a vague bipolarity, the other characters are shamelessly one-dimensional. -That ending was just about one of the worst ones I've read in a long time. "

" Very realistic look at high school life. I enjoyed reading this one even though there is nothing unique about the story. "

" Target audience is high school. The story started out strong, well written and the author dealt with plenty of teenage issues. However, I felt the characters were rather emotionless, and there was no closure to many of the situations. It just kind of ended. "

" Actually really enjoyed this one. "