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A review by crabbygirl
Boy Heaven by Laura Kasischke
2.0
[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]
i often make book lists after reading my favorite bloggers, but i don't always remember who recommended which book and for whom. (i take note of books for me, as well as pepper & fierce) when this YA one came in - innocence title and slim width - i thought it was pepper. well, thank-god i read it first! it's the kind of scary tale told around the campfire and was VERY effective in that sense. the tension kept building and i thought this would be a great alternative to those horrid Goosebumps series that my daughter likes to read. but the characters - so smutty! more flawed than redemptive. i tried to give it a chance (because maybe the ending would provide a moral judgement to counter point all this bad behavior) but no - the beautiful cheerleaders keep their perfect lives and the world keeps turning.
i often make book lists after reading my favorite bloggers, but i don't always remember who recommended which book and for whom. (i take note of books for me, as well as pepper & fierce) when this YA one came in - innocence title and slim width - i thought it was pepper. well, thank-god i read it first! it's the kind of scary tale told around the campfire and was VERY effective in that sense. the tension kept building and i thought this would be a great alternative to those horrid Goosebumps series that my daughter likes to read. but the characters - so smutty! more flawed than redemptive. i tried to give it a chance (because maybe the ending would provide a moral judgement to counter point all this bad behavior) but no - the beautiful cheerleaders keep their perfect lives and the world keeps turning.