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A review by scrollsofdragons
Sex & Violence by Carrie Mesrobian
3.0
I really liked it.
I wish we had got more closure, I really do, the ending was kind of left open which was annoying. So was Evan talking about the things girls do constantly, like dude we get it that you're male okay and you don't get women, now can you move on? It also seemed like a feminist novel, which are great and all but aren't something I like to read. And I didn't like the thing with Lana, I was digging that he was traumatised but then he did that, knew he could get beat up for sleeping with her and did it anyway, why Evan why be so stupid for sex with a girl you don't even like that much? Yeah, you sound traumatised mate.
That was my problems with it that knocked this down to a 3 star for me because I did really enjoy it and liked Evan.
What I liked it for: Finally we have a charcator in YA that has sex on ones mind, because a lot of the time, boy or girl perspective, they don't think of sex much. They also don't drink or do drugs much, and if they do it's made to be a bad thing-i'm not saying it's a good thing but teens experiment and that kind of shit happens. And no one writes about it but Carrie Mesrobian does.
No demoralising of what teens do, yes thank you.
A nice realistic look into a teen world.
A narrator that has a voice and personality, even though he's a bit of an idiot. And other fleshed out characters for that matter.
I'm not going to say that Evan sounded boyish because he did but there was instances that revealed that the author wasn't a dude and I don't want to think about the author's gender when I'm reading (Let me go into that more, basically, I could see that Evan thought like a dude. But there was things he said that sounded like the author trying to make him seem very manish, that suggested to me without knowing the authors name that it was a woman and I want there to be written a charcator with making me think of the author.)
Although comparing some other young adult, it's a much better male voice so kudo's for that.
I wish we had got more closure, I really do, the ending was kind of left open which was annoying. So was Evan talking about the things girls do constantly, like dude we get it that you're male okay and you don't get women, now can you move on? It also seemed like a feminist novel, which are great and all but aren't something I like to read. And I didn't like the thing with Lana, I was digging that he was traumatised but then he did that, knew he could get beat up for sleeping with her and did it anyway, why Evan why be so stupid for sex with a girl you don't even like that much? Yeah, you sound traumatised mate.
That was my problems with it that knocked this down to a 3 star for me because I did really enjoy it and liked Evan.
What I liked it for: Finally we have a charcator in YA that has sex on ones mind, because a lot of the time, boy or girl perspective, they don't think of sex much. They also don't drink or do drugs much, and if they do it's made to be a bad thing-i'm not saying it's a good thing but teens experiment and that kind of shit happens. And no one writes about it but Carrie Mesrobian does.
No demoralising of what teens do, yes thank you.
A nice realistic look into a teen world.
A narrator that has a voice and personality, even though he's a bit of an idiot. And other fleshed out characters for that matter.
I'm not going to say that Evan sounded boyish because he did but there was instances that revealed that the author wasn't a dude and I don't want to think about the author's gender when I'm reading (Let me go into that more, basically, I could see that Evan thought like a dude. But there was things he said that sounded like the author trying to make him seem very manish, that suggested to me without knowing the authors name that it was a woman and I want there to be written a charcator with making me think of the author.)
Although comparing some other young adult, it's a much better male voice so kudo's for that.