A review by selket16
Sophie's Secret by Tara West
3.0
Sophie and her two best friends have something in common, they all have special powers: Sophie can read minds, AJ has visions of the future and Krysta can interact with ghosts.
Newly skinny Sophie is beginning her Freshman year a whole new person, but she's still carrying the baggage of self-loathing she picked up as a "fat girl." On top of this, the cute guy in school that she has a crush on keeps asking her to break the rules for him.
It starts with a scene entirely meant to shock the reader, making it sound like the three girls are talking about sex instead of their powers, but it's a conversation that they would have had when they first found out about each other, so it's there for no valid reason other than to confuse the reader, so, I mean, I'm kind of mad at it from the outset. Sophie uses her telepathy rather willy nilly when it furthers the plot, but never when it would further the plot too much, basically she never uses it when she should.
These are only a few of the things wrong with the story, culminating in a cruel revenge plot that makes her as much the villain as the person she retaliates against, but it's got just enough teen angst and the little guy winning that it's thoroughly enjoyable. I wouldn't call this a great book, it has a lot of flaws, but all in all, it was a light easy read. I'm kind of up in the air on whether I'm going to continue with the series.
Newly skinny Sophie is beginning her Freshman year a whole new person, but she's still carrying the baggage of self-loathing she picked up as a "fat girl." On top of this, the cute guy in school that she has a crush on keeps asking her to break the rules for him.
It starts with a scene entirely meant to shock the reader, making it sound like the three girls are talking about sex instead of their powers, but it's a conversation that they would have had when they first found out about each other, so it's there for no valid reason other than to confuse the reader, so, I mean, I'm kind of mad at it from the outset. Sophie uses her telepathy rather willy nilly when it furthers the plot, but never when it would further the plot too much, basically she never uses it when she should.
These are only a few of the things wrong with the story, culminating in a cruel revenge plot that makes her as much the villain as the person she retaliates against, but it's got just enough teen angst and the little guy winning that it's thoroughly enjoyable. I wouldn't call this a great book, it has a lot of flaws, but all in all, it was a light easy read. I'm kind of up in the air on whether I'm going to continue with the series.