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Narrated by:
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Danielle Ferland
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Natasha Friend
First-time novelist Natasha Friend is a writer with a talent for realistically expressing the fears and uncertainties of today’s adolescents in a good story. Perfect has received the Milkweed Prize for Children’s Literature and is a Book Sense "Winter Picks" selection. This is the moving story of a young girl who develops a dangerous eating disorder while dealing with intense grief.
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this book is really realistic, too realistic
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Also, reading the other reviews, this book is apparently bad for struggling kids! The main demographic! Like, I already knew the "tips" they gave, so I didn't think much of it, but yeah, probably a bad choice. I honestly wouldn't recommend this book to anyone I know.
passable time passer
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Very good book
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DO NOT LET YOUNG GIRLS READ
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Ferland, the reader of this audiobook is an old woman trying to put on a teenager voice, so she sounds squeaky, the way old women tend to talk when they think they're sounding young. That, I could handle, if it were only that. But Ferland also reads EVERY line as though she's cussing out somebody. No matter how mundane it is, like describing what someone is wearing, Ferland says it as though she's very over-dramatically trying to mean-girl the crap out of somebody. It's so unrealistic, so over-the-top, that it's not only annoying but it takes you out of the story, since every line of narration or teen/kid dialogue is exactly the same. But then, when she reads the dialogue of an adult, Ferland puts on the opposite kind of over-dramatic voice, a very sappy over-sensitive voice, which does not fit the dialogue at all. For example, when the mom tells the daughter that she likes A Separate Peace and would like to talk about the book with her, Ferland says it as though the mom is offering to discuss a a fatal diagnosis or something, super super over-sensitive that doesn't fit at all. Ferland very obviously hates teenagers and kids and wants listeners to view all teens and kids as spoiled obnoxious brats. Even as an adult I am offended at her portrayal of teens and kids. I work with teens and kids. I know what they're like. The reader of this book clearly has had zero interaction with teens or kids at any point in her life. Seriously, Ferland must've been home-schooled and then isolated in a cave somewhere and never met anyone under 18 in her entire life. Where on earth do they find these "readers" and why would they pick that old lady to read this book??!!!
The book itself is fine. It's only Ferland's reading that is bad.
I hope Audible will have this book re-read and replace this audiobook with a proper reading, just swap it out so we can listen to it read correctly. I wish I could return this, since Ferland makes it unlistenable. I've returned two books recently, which is the limit for a year, so I can't return this one.
Good book, but WORST READER EVER!!!
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This book is toxic
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