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50 shades of Grey for Middle Schoolers...
I am stunned that this book has so many good reviews... there must be a lot of horny, socially awkward, 13 year old girls on Amazon. First and foremost, this book is in desperate need of basic editing. I had no idea something with so many incomplete sentences could get published. Doesn't this woman have an editor?! This reads like it was written by a 10th grader, and not a particularly articulate one. I might've been able to get past the strange absence of editing if the story had been original or interesting but this is basically fan fiction- a girl who's never had any friends moves to a new town and is befriended by a group of 7 unbelievably gorgeous, charming, powerful, and smart guys. Not only is it unrealistic that such a group of high school guys would even exist, it's unrealistic that a group of high school guys would randomly decide to be best friends with a dorky, depressed new girl and buy her an iPhone after two days of knowing her so that they would always be able to reach her. The book reads like an unpopular girl's daydream. The author attempts to make her story more legitimate by adding abusive parents and a "dangerous" public school, but these "plotlines" are poorly explained and barely disguise what is essentially a book about how 7 hot guys make one socially awkward girl blush. Seriously, that is basically all that happens in the 270 pages. Not only is the story stupid, it's sexist.. the protagonist acts like a helpless, weak, naive, little girl and the guys are obsessed with "protecting" her the entire time. They choose her classes for her, give her hair a makeover, and basically insist that she do everything they say. In conclusion- don't read this book. I honestly hesitate to even call it that, because it deserves to be on a some boy-crazy pre-teen's fan fiction website rather than on bookshelves. And clearly every respectable publisher laughed at it as well, because whoever published it can't even afford a decent editor. I am not a particularly snobby reader- I love YA fiction even though I'm 23.. but again, this book was so amateur I am astounded it has the rating it does. The ratings and summary are deceiving.
February 2014 · Kindle Store · verified purchase
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