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A review by abhi_sp
The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
4.0
Woah. Omg this was amazing. Beautiful. The way if exposes everyone. And the fact that it seems like the end of the world for Alice at the beginning but it isn't not really.
At first I thought the charecters were beyond stereotypical, they were unreal in how deeply they were entrenched in thier cliques. By the end , we know more and we see everything for what it truly is . The insecurities , the cowardice , the arbitrariness. I still think the ending could have better but I must say this book was amazing. It really warmed my heart.
Ok spoilers .....
But boy oh boy , those ppl were all assholes. All of them, the entire goddamn town , with the exception of Kurt's grandma and Alice herself .
I especially hated Elaine and Kelsey , omg such a bitch. I can't even..... I have known some two faced friends and she makes them look like angels.
Josh is a coward. It's hard to hate him seeing how pitiful he actually is.
Even Kurt is an asshole. I mean he knew all the time that Alice didn't do any of that but he didn't say anything ????
Even though he was perfectly aware of how terrible things were getting for Alice ??
He could have told his grandma the truth and she could have spread it along the grapevine , maybe many , if not most ppl wouldn't have believed it but some of them might have. But nope he keeps silent about it.
Then he tells Alice the truth and is angry at her for her calling him an asshole which he is . I mean if he had just decided to keep silent and buried it , it would have been better.
It would still be a dick move but ok , ppl make stupid , cruel mistakes sometimes.
Did he even feel guilty ?? Nope , he actually has the guts to be angry at Alice , for her being angry at him even though he knows she's right to be angry.
That's what ruined the book to me actually. I originally wanted to give it 5 stars but the ending just seemed so wierd .
I mean the author could have explained it saying Kurt felt insecure that she might leave him if she were exonerated.
The author could have made it so Kurt wasn't perfect and buried his mistake instead of revealing it and expecting Alice to be completely fine with it.
I mean hey no one's perfect , not even nerds who use the word " libations ".
We would have understood it , I mean don't get me wrong. Kurt's precious. He really is but I don't understand how he justifies such a glaring mistake to himself.
How he expects Alice to feel it was justified ?
And the worst thing is , it's Alice who says sorry and gets back to him. I mean , wtf ????
I thought in the end , Kurt would realize he was being a stuckup asshole who thought anything he did was justified since he was Alice's only friend . I thought he would come back , apologize to Alice about being a self-righteous dick and realize he wasn't perfect and that Alice would forgive him as after all he did help her a lot and in the end at least he apologized. More than what I can say for those other assholes.
But no, Alice is the one apologizing , why ??? You were perfectly right in being angry at him. If not for his mistake , then for the fact that he thought he was justified.
I mean Kurt tries to apologise but that's only after the letter and Alice cuts him off anyway.
Idk that kinda ruined stuff for me , especially since Kurt is basically built up to be this amazing hero who can do no evil . If that were true he should have realized his mistake and apologized to her. Or atleast surprised her by coming to her house right when she was planning on visiting him and accepting he made a mistake.
Ah well , i guess maybe the author is trying to say that Kurt isn't really an angel. That he has his faults but well since Alice doesn't have much choice , she has to be with him.
Compared to the others , Kurt's an angel that's for sure .
And I got a feeling that Alice didn't really plan on like marrying Kurt or something.
When she said they were going places , I think she meant they would be going different places after spending a while together.
Maybe she was evolving from getting tangled up with major assholes to minor ones like Kurt and later she would leave Healy for college and have the opportunity to evolve further to be a person who loves someone who is actually truly good for them and who doesn't do terrible stuff and expect to be justified !!!!!
But idk I mean I loved Kurt I did. He's not perfect , no one is perfect , i know that. I mean, there's no rule that says someone had to be pure goodness but still .... It felt as if everyone else's faults were exposed under a microscope but Kurt's was just swept underneath the rug
I would like to think that during senior year Kurt realized what a dick he was and actually , truly apologized to Alice .
I would like to think both of them evolve further to see thier mistakes and thier desperation.
I certainly hope so. Alice definitely deserves that. And Kurt sure has the potential to be that. He already is that almost. Almost , not quite yet however.
At first I thought the charecters were beyond stereotypical, they were unreal in how deeply they were entrenched in thier cliques. By the end , we know more and we see everything for what it truly is . The insecurities , the cowardice , the arbitrariness. I still think the ending could have better but I must say this book was amazing. It really warmed my heart.
Ok spoilers .....
But boy oh boy , those ppl were all assholes. All of them, the entire goddamn town , with the exception of Kurt's grandma and Alice herself .
I especially hated Elaine and Kelsey , omg such a bitch. I can't even..... I have known some two faced friends and she makes them look like angels.
Josh is a coward. It's hard to hate him seeing how pitiful he actually is.
Even Kurt is an asshole. I mean he knew all the time that Alice didn't do any of that but he didn't say anything ????
Even though he was perfectly aware of how terrible things were getting for Alice ??
He could have told his grandma the truth and she could have spread it along the grapevine , maybe many , if not most ppl wouldn't have believed it but some of them might have. But nope he keeps silent about it.
Then he tells Alice the truth and is angry at her for her calling him an asshole which he is . I mean if he had just decided to keep silent and buried it , it would have been better.
It would still be a dick move but ok , ppl make stupid , cruel mistakes sometimes.
Did he even feel guilty ?? Nope , he actually has the guts to be angry at Alice , for her being angry at him even though he knows she's right to be angry.
That's what ruined the book to me actually. I originally wanted to give it 5 stars but the ending just seemed so wierd .
I mean the author could have explained it saying Kurt felt insecure that she might leave him if she were exonerated.
The author could have made it so Kurt wasn't perfect and buried his mistake instead of revealing it and expecting Alice to be completely fine with it.
I mean hey no one's perfect , not even nerds who use the word " libations ".
We would have understood it , I mean don't get me wrong. Kurt's precious. He really is but I don't understand how he justifies such a glaring mistake to himself.
How he expects Alice to feel it was justified ?
And the worst thing is , it's Alice who says sorry and gets back to him. I mean , wtf ????
I thought in the end , Kurt would realize he was being a stuckup asshole who thought anything he did was justified since he was Alice's only friend . I thought he would come back , apologize to Alice about being a self-righteous dick and realize he wasn't perfect and that Alice would forgive him as after all he did help her a lot and in the end at least he apologized. More than what I can say for those other assholes.
But no, Alice is the one apologizing , why ??? You were perfectly right in being angry at him. If not for his mistake , then for the fact that he thought he was justified.
I mean Kurt tries to apologise but that's only after the letter and Alice cuts him off anyway.
Idk that kinda ruined stuff for me , especially since Kurt is basically built up to be this amazing hero who can do no evil . If that were true he should have realized his mistake and apologized to her. Or atleast surprised her by coming to her house right when she was planning on visiting him and accepting he made a mistake.
Ah well , i guess maybe the author is trying to say that Kurt isn't really an angel. That he has his faults but well since Alice doesn't have much choice , she has to be with him.
Compared to the others , Kurt's an angel that's for sure .
And I got a feeling that Alice didn't really plan on like marrying Kurt or something.
When she said they were going places , I think she meant they would be going different places after spending a while together.
Maybe she was evolving from getting tangled up with major assholes to minor ones like Kurt and later she would leave Healy for college and have the opportunity to evolve further to be a person who loves someone who is actually truly good for them and who doesn't do terrible stuff and expect to be justified !!!!!
But idk I mean I loved Kurt I did. He's not perfect , no one is perfect , i know that. I mean, there's no rule that says someone had to be pure goodness but still .... It felt as if everyone else's faults were exposed under a microscope but Kurt's was just swept underneath the rug
I would like to think that during senior year Kurt realized what a dick he was and actually , truly apologized to Alice .
I would like to think both of them evolve further to see thier mistakes and thier desperation.
I certainly hope so. Alice definitely deserves that. And Kurt sure has the potential to be that. He already is that almost. Almost , not quite yet however.