Blog 1

---If I were to rate this book 1-10, one being the worst book I’ve read and ten being the best. I would rate it eight, because I thought it was an excellent book. It was not the greatest book I’ve ever read because I’m probably more in to romance books (chick flick books) or books that with more conflicts teenage girls face(like the Diary of a Teenage Girl Series), but it definitely a wonderful book. If I were to have to pick a book that isn’t a “chick flick” book I would choose one just like this. If I were to go back in time and not have this book as an assignment I still would have defiantly read it.
---One thing I didn't like about this book was all the swearing I got really tired of T.J. and all the other characters swearing I really think this book could have done without the swearing. In the part where Heidi and T.J. meet I think Heidi's swearing when she was imitating her father may have added affect but other than that I don't think the swearing was needed at all. This is one thing I didn't like about the book
---I love the conflicts between Rich Marshall and Mike Barbour against T.J. Jones and Chris Coughlin. They make the book so so much deeper. These conflicts are very real and miserable but they really touched by heart and made me really sad, especially the argument over Heidi. Rich Marshall is like the worst father ever, I mean seriously I felt so bad for Heidi. How could Rich be so stupid? Heidi didn’t do anything wrong. Rich beat up his own stepdaughter for being black, and then he didn’t even stop there he told her that she could scrub off her skin color if she scrubbed hard enough so guest what she did only her skin didn’t turn white it turned red from the blood, because Rich told her to use a Brillo pad. Urrrggg, he makes me so mad, why would he tell her to do that. He makes so mad. I totally understand how T.J. feels about this situation. Didn’t it make you so depressed to learn what happed to Heidi when you read the book? Rich was the worst character although Mike Barbour war the next worst. Mike would hit his girlfriend, and when she would run away from him he’d come up to her and tell her how sorry he was and they’d get back together and the same thing would happen again and again like a cycle until near the end of the book Kristen learned her lesson and left him for good and she started dating Tay-Roy. Tay- Roy was super sweet to her and they make such a better couple.
---On the opposite end of the mean/nice scale is Georgia. She is super sweet and compassionate. Georgia is a psychiatrist type person for kids. She is always helping and caring for these kids. T.J. used to be a kid in one of Georgia’s counseling sessions but when he had gotten older he and Georgia were friends so he still comes and visits her once and a while. Georgia’s house is where T.J. met Heidi. When he met Heidi she was in the middle of a therapy session working out her anger and fear of her step-father. It is really too bad that Alicia(Heidi’s mom) didn’t stay with Willis because he would have been such a better dad to Heidi than Rich. If only Willis wouldn’t have got paralyzed because then he wouldn’t have ran away and then he and Alicia would have gotten married and Heidi never would have been abused and she would have had such a better life.
---I would totaly and completly recomend this book to any teen. It is a wonderful book and almost every teen would enjoy this book. Although I do send out a caution if you are against reading books with swearing because there is swearing in this book, but I don't like swearing in books and I still though this book was excellent.