tjlcody's review
1.0
DNF.
Boy, was that poetry painful.
See, if it were just the narration that rhymed, it would be less painful; but no, the dialogue rhymed too. Like, for instance?
"Look at her butt
and her gut!
She's a chub.
Sahara's joining
the Fat Girls
Club."
Her brother says that. It's in quotes.
People do not rhyme like that in real life, and it is beyond jarring to hear it done constantly throughout the book.
Boy, was that poetry painful.
See, if it were just the narration that rhymed, it would be less painful; but no, the dialogue rhymed too. Like, for instance?
"Look at her butt
and her gut!
She's a chub.
Sahara's joining
the Fat Girls
Club."
Her brother says that. It's in quotes.
People do not rhyme like that in real life, and it is beyond jarring to hear it done constantly throughout the book.
margaretann84's review
3.0
I generally like novels written in verse (see anything written by Ellen Hopkins <3), but this was just...bad poetry. I really liked a lot of the ideas, though, especially the list of things at the end of the "second trimester" part. I got a definite feel for the character, as well, which probably would not have shown through if the book had been written in prose. But the poetry...the rhyming...the rhyming with the same words in the same stanza or on the same page...oof, it made my head hurt. So, not the best book ever, but good if you're looking to live vicariously.
libraryelf's review
2.0
While the concept is nice, I felt like 1.) this was an advertisement for many companies (soda, stores [Baby Gap? Limited?:] this dates it) just to satisfy a questionable rhyming scheme, 2.) she was trying too hard to be like other poetry novels out there (coughHopkinscough) and 3.) was generally weak in plot and form. The poetry would have a nice rhythm and then it would "trip" or the company name would be dropped. If that was done to make the book cooler, it actually made it worse. This title just felt like a "book to make the publisher happy."
hezann73's review
3.0
Sahara accidently gets pregnant at 15 and tries to decide what to make of her life.
Not my favorite novel in verse, but not bad. It rhymes a lot so it's easier to read it as you would speak it instead of line by line.
Not my favorite novel in verse, but not bad. It rhymes a lot so it's easier to read it as you would speak it instead of line by line.
thisgrrlreads's review
1.0
Written in verse, this novel is nine months of a teen girls' unwanted pregnancy and the choices she makes. The story is sparse but not in a good way. There are lots of holes in the story and the verse is not as good as it could be. I'm spoiled by Walter Dean Myers' Street Love.
afterwhat's review
1.0
This was a novel in verse in which the narrator gets pregnant, decides to keep the baby, tells her mother, tells the father, and even through all of that...nothing happens. And the rhyming was irritating. The cover is bitching though.
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