A review by joyful808
This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge by Matthue Roth, Christopher Krovatin, Brian James, Samantha Schutz, David Levithan, Patricia McCormick, Chris Wooding, Kevin Waltman, Coe Booth, Kevin Brooks, Markus Zusak, Eddie de Oliveira, Kristen Kemp, Billy Merrell, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Eireann Corrigan
1.0
Some books fill you with goodness and light. They make you long for love and a happily ever after. This is *not* that book. And especially I don't feel this is for Young Adult reading.
This is Push is an angst riddled anthology. The characters are grouchy. Nearly every story is searching for their next drug of choice...usually weed.
I tried to keep track of individual ratings for each story, however, after the 3rd 2star in a row and a few zeros I rounded the rating.
The story "Ginger" by Christopher Krovatin was probably the best in the group, however thinking back it might just have been that it just wasn't as bad as the rest.
A contributor, Markus Zusak, is one of my favorite authors and I picked This is Push up from my library just to read something by him.
PASS on this one friends.
explicit language, themes and teenage drug use
This is Push is an angst riddled anthology. The characters are grouchy. Nearly every story is searching for their next drug of choice...usually weed.
I tried to keep track of individual ratings for each story, however, after the 3rd 2star in a row and a few zeros I rounded the rating.
The story "Ginger" by Christopher Krovatin was probably the best in the group, however thinking back it might just have been that it just wasn't as bad as the rest.
A contributor, Markus Zusak, is one of my favorite authors and I picked This is Push up from my library just to read something by him.
PASS on this one friends.
explicit language, themes and teenage drug use