A review by kbeddes
Playing in Traffic by Gail Giles
1.0
Genre: bleak lit, goth, relationships
Summary: Skye is a psychopathic liar who uses people to get what she wants. She is loosing the attention of her father and step-mother with the coming birth of a new baby. She does drugs, cuts herself and sleeps around. She picks Matt, an average boy and they start having a messed up relationship. Turns out, Skye wants Matt to kill her parents? If he doesn't, she threatens to hurt his little sister, basically the only person he cares about. At the very end of the book, she pulls a gun on him, telling him to choose who's to die. The ending is cryptic, but I was led to believe that Skye killed herself.
Response: I don't like bleak lit. I don't like the feeling I get when I read it. I don't think the plot is decent and there isn't a point in reading it. I don't know why Skye did all of the things she did and I don't know why Matt put up with it for as long as he did. The ignorance of the parents is astonishing in this book, so I don't think it is too terribly realistic.
Summary: Skye is a psychopathic liar who uses people to get what she wants. She is loosing the attention of her father and step-mother with the coming birth of a new baby. She does drugs, cuts herself and sleeps around. She picks Matt, an average boy and they start having a messed up relationship. Turns out, Skye wants Matt to kill her parents? If he doesn't, she threatens to hurt his little sister, basically the only person he cares about. At the very end of the book, she pulls a gun on him, telling him to choose who's to die. The ending is cryptic, but I was led to believe that Skye killed herself.
Response: I don't like bleak lit. I don't like the feeling I get when I read it. I don't think the plot is decent and there isn't a point in reading it. I don't know why Skye did all of the things she did and I don't know why Matt put up with it for as long as he did. The ignorance of the parents is astonishing in this book, so I don't think it is too terribly realistic.