Off to a fellow Bookmoocher!!

I mooched this book. I am looking forward to reading it.

Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth. This extraordinary first novel has captured the imaginations of teenagers and adults across the country.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

On its way to New York!

Looking forward to reading this one -- looks really interesting.

The plot/secret around which this young adult novel is built is entirely predictable, but the narrative voice is so strong that the plot is pretty much beside the point. The inner monologue of the narrator is pitch perfect and really resonated with me. While at times I wanted to wring her neck, Melinda is a compelling and overall reasonably sympathetic teen struggling with depression and her feelings about a specific bad event. I thought the named cliques for the groups at the high school was overly cute and I could have done without that, but, then again, I think a lot of high school students actually think of the cliques that way, so I was willing to forgive it. I'll be on the lookout for Catalyst, another book set at the same high school.

This book is now on the way to a Ballyswapper for an exchange over at Book Obsessed.

Hmmm, interesting!! Thanks Joanna and Talya x

My first read of the read-a-thon on bookobs.. The plot held no surprises, but still I wanted to keep reading as Melinda's voice struck a chord with me.

received at my house, thanks

Wild Release in a "Bücherschrank" in Mainz