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A review by kaitlinshafer
If I Tell by Janet Gurtler
4.0
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(I received this book free of charge in exchange for an honest review.)
When I first started this book I couldn't believe how big of a brat Jaz (Jasmine's nickname) was being. Yes, I understand that she witnessed something huge, but she didn't have to take it out on everyone around her.
She wasn't very nice to her mother, which made me actually feel really bad for her. But Jaz and her mother never had a real mother/daughter relationship since she was raised by her Grandma. Her mother was only 17 years old when she was born.
Once Jaz shares her secrets from her childhood I started to understand why she acts the way she does. And why she doesn't have very many friends or people she can trust or rely on.
I couldn't imagine being the only biracial student in my entire school. She's picked on from a young age about her skin color and children aren't allow to hang around with girls "like her".
This book hit on some really sensitive subjects, which I thought was great, since they're not something I've read in a YA novel before. There was the fact that Jaz was biracial and her mother developing postpartum depression after the birth of her baby.
I really enjoyed this book even after all of Jaz's brattiness in the beginning. :)
(I received this book free of charge in exchange for an honest review.)
When I first started this book I couldn't believe how big of a brat Jaz (Jasmine's nickname) was being. Yes, I understand that she witnessed something huge, but she didn't have to take it out on everyone around her.
She wasn't very nice to her mother, which made me actually feel really bad for her. But Jaz and her mother never had a real mother/daughter relationship since she was raised by her Grandma. Her mother was only 17 years old when she was born.
Once Jaz shares her secrets from her childhood I started to understand why she acts the way she does. And why she doesn't have very many friends or people she can trust or rely on.
I couldn't imagine being the only biracial student in my entire school. She's picked on from a young age about her skin color and children aren't allow to hang around with girls "like her".
This book hit on some really sensitive subjects, which I thought was great, since they're not something I've read in a YA novel before. There was the fact that Jaz was biracial and her mother developing postpartum depression after the birth of her baby.
I really enjoyed this book even after all of Jaz's brattiness in the beginning. :)