Chen, Justina A Blind
Spot for Boys, 321 pgs. Little, Brown,
and Company, 2014. $18.00 Content:
Language: R (13 swears; 1 “F”); Violence: PG; Mature Content:
PG-13.
Shana’s passion is photography,
something she shares with her dad, so when her Dad is told that he is going
blind Shana struggles with the change in her family. Their family decides to go to Machu Picchu a
big last minute trip before Shana’s dad goes blind. Shana is also trying to deal with her
heartbreak from months past, when a college boy broke her heart in a secret
relationship that they didn’t tell anyone about. But when Shana meets Quattro and their paths
keep intersecting, Shana thinks she is ready to move on, but Quattro has heavy
baggage of his own.
I thought this book
had great messages about family and learning to deal with hard times. The book isn’t just another fluffy teenage
romance, I felt like it had depth and I even found myself crying in parts. My only minor issue is at the beginning the
author name drops people that she hasn’t introduced fully as characters and it
takes a bit of reading to establish who those minor characters are—it’s
annoying, but all is forgiven because it was a good read. It has one “F” bomb-ugh-but it fit in the
context of the story. At one point the
main character is secretly dating a guy who is twenty-two while she is fifteen
(the guy didn’t know, but the age difference is WAY too much) and I felt like that brought the book down to optional for middle school.
MS-OPTIONAL, HS-ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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