Helpful Score: 1
This book was awful!
Full of bullies and adults who should be mentors but are trying to act young by being cheating drunks. Drinking with her teenage athletes at her house! Promoting eating disorders! The list goes on and on. Awful characters. You are rooting for no one.
I stopped halfway through and truly don't care how it ends. Waste of my time and yours.
Don't waste a credit for this book!
Full of bullies and adults who should be mentors but are trying to act young by being cheating drunks. Drinking with her teenage athletes at her house! Promoting eating disorders! The list goes on and on. Awful characters. You are rooting for no one.
I stopped halfway through and truly don't care how it ends. Waste of my time and yours.
Don't waste a credit for this book!
Helpful Score: 1
I am so in awe of Megan Abbot's storytelling skill. I am possibly as different from a High School cheerleader as one can be, yet I completely identified with (and was thoroughly engaged by) the story and characters.
DARE ME is a hell of an achievement. Highly recommended!
DARE ME is a hell of an achievement. Highly recommended!
About half way through this book, it dawned on me, there are no real adult characters, i.e., parents in this book about high school cheerleaders. Maybe that was the author's point? The old "It's 10:00 do you know where your children are?" thing. And maybe I'm really naive, but what adult in their right mind, coaching a high school team, goes out drinking with the team??? (At her OWN house?) I'm sure the hierarchy in high school sports is brutal, and some kids, okay, some girls can be cut-throat. But man this went to new heights. And this is almost really just a back story to the real meat of the book-what little there is of it. It could have been the field hockey team. I found myself practically screaming at some of the characters, especially 'Coach', "What the hell do you think you are doing?". If you ever cheered in high school you might find this book interesting, but I hope it doesn't ring true. Maybe a little too much technical cheering jargon for the average (Non cheer) person. Read where this is going to be a movie. Lord help us.
I am so in awe of Megan Abbot's storytelling skill. I am possibly as different from a High School cheerleader as one can be, yet I completely identified with (and was thoroughly engaged by) the story and characters.
DARE ME is a hell of an achievement. Highly recommended!
DARE ME is a hell of an achievement. Highly recommended!
