I finished this book in a week of homerooms--maybe less than a week. It went pretty fast, really. The novel, but Lisas Shanahan tells the story of Gemma, a teen who lives in small town Austrailia. Her sister announces she's getting married, a boy at school shows an interest in her, and a boy she likes doesn't know she exists. The difference between this story and most like it is that the boy who likes her isn't the "boy next door" type--he's the boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Raven DeHead is a character we should all aspire to be and yet fear. He's impulsive as well as kind; passionate as well as devious. His family is as dysfunctional as my own, and yet he falls for a totally "normal" girl.
I cried toward the end of the book for an injustice that the character suffers from losing a friend, from Raven losing a brother. Really, a fresh read.
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