Love lessons

Yikes. I read some Jacqueline Wilson as a child and LOVED them (mainly Tracey Beaker), and after I saw that Maddie and Bee on BookTube have been talking about her books over the last few months, I decided to give her books a crack as an adult. So I went on her website, unsure of where to start and I Leggi tutto

First read, May 3, 2010: This gets four stars because, yes, I really liked it, as in I enjoyed reading it and didn't want to put it down. It was well written and the characters were very well developed. HoWeVeR: The "relationship" between Prudence and Rax is not very believable. Prue is 14 years old Leggi tutto

Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. They know they are different to 'normal' girls but their attempts to find out what being an ordinary teenager are like. But when Dad has a stroke and ends up in hospital, Prue suddenly di

Just finished this book for the second time. The first time I read it I was 12 years old and I was left unsatisfied with the ending. Now, at 16 years old, here is my opinion. (view spoiler) [I was so convinced that I would feel differently about the way that Rax and Prue parted in the end, but I wasn't. Still, in my (hide spoiler)] Leggi tutto

Love Lessons is a great book to read. I couldn't stop reading it! Prue and Grace's overbearing & overprotective dad is rushed to hospital and suffers from a stroke. They were home educated before their dad got sick and now have to go to a school. Will dad be happy when he finds out they are going to Leggi tutto

this book was absolutely mortifying to read. like there is so much to unpack, so: 1. there was constant fatshaming throughout the book- like yes, write about fatshaming, but don’t have it in the book a ridiculous amount and from every character, making it seem like it’s ok. wtf? 2. the book builds up Leggi tutto