Cracked Up to Be

I cannot believe how long it took for Cracked Up to Be to appear on my holds list. I reserved it ages ago – some darn teen checked it out and kept it for a very long time, didn’t she? Hmph. Teens should be more responsible than that… but not obsessively so. Which is kind of what this little book is about. The perfect girl who is so perfect that she’s having panic attacks… and then “something” happens and she gives up being perfect, gives up her friends, tries to push everyone away (and punish herself) because that horrible “something” that happened was her fault…

Excellent book. Depressing in that perfect girls, bad stuff happens to good kids sort of way. I wonder what RJ would think of this? She’s probably think Parker was nuts… sigh.

(Two more books to go in my Cybils Shortlist Challenge… I’m getting worried because as long as it took for me to get this one, it’s taking even longer to get these other two… people. Bring your books back to the darn library! People are waiting to read them!)

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