Thirsty by M.T. Anderson
My rating: 3/5 cats
i read this because i was surprised that i liked feed so much when i read it for class. and as a teen book, it’s really good. but to a grown-up reader, there are an uncomfortable amount of unanswered questions regarding characters’ motivations and chronic gullibility and not enough history of the town that would make their responses and beliefs plausible…but as a fun, day-off, all-you-can-eat-buffet-made-me-too-sleepy-for-proust book, it was perfect. i am going to carefully say here that, unlike the pat endings of teen fiction when i was young, the recent crop of teen fiction seems to leave things more ambiguous and emotionally jarring, and this is a trend of which i approve. “phew,” says the multi-million dollar teen fiction industry, “karen approves.”
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