Kirby, Jessi Golden,
277 pgs. Simon and Schuster, 2013. $16.99
Content: Language: R (31 swears; 2 “F”); Mature Content: PG-13;
Violence: PG.
Parker is a teacher’s aide
for Mr, Kinney, a teacher who asks his seniors to write in a journal for their
end of year project, then he boxes them up and sends them to the seniors in ten
years. Parker is in charge of finding
the seniors current addresses, and she comes across the journal of a girl that
went missing and was presumed dead at the end of her senior year. She decides to read the journal and it
changes the way she wants to live her life and sends her on an adventure with her
friends.
I love Jessi Kirby’s other
books and you can’t deny that she writes well, but this wasn’t my favorite of
hers. The mystery of the missing girl is
great and I liked the characters. The
ending was disappointing because I wanted the character to reconcile who she
was before she read the journal with who she changed into because of what she
learned. Instead, I felt like she gave
up on all of her hard work because she didn’t feel like she knew who she was,
which made the ending unsatisfying.
Also, the “F” words were out of left field and totally unnecessary,
bumping it into high school level, otherwise it would have been good in middle
school.
HS-OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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