Please Ignore Vera Dietz
Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything.
So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to?
Edgy and gripping, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable novel: smart, funny, dramatic, and always surprising.
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This is the type of book where I finish it and then flip back through it to see what passage(s) I missed that would have made me love this book as much as everyone else seemed to.
I'm starting to see a trend in what I read (specifically well-known books or YA books) - the more stars the "popular" reviewers (you know the ones...they show up at the tip top of almost every review page) give books, the more I think they're just "eh." Less stars from them generally equals more stars from me. It's not in spite. It's not intentional. It just happens.
So I should have been prepared for my slight disappointment with Please Ignore Vera Dietz. This was well-written in that the main character (Vera Dietz herself, front and center) had a very clear voice and was a solid, reliable narrator. The issues - death, domestic abuse, substance abuse, bullying, pedophilia, abandonment-by-your-ex-stripper-mother, etc - were abundant and not thoroughly dealt with, which was actually part of the point (with Vera's father "turn the other way" mentality). This book sounds like my perfect mix of literary crack. But something didn't click for me. I didn't feel anything. I liked it well enough, but there will be no fangirl gushing from me on this one.
3 I-Liked-It-But-Meh Stars
I'm starting to see a trend in what I read (specifically well-known books or YA books) - the more stars the "popular" reviewers (you know the ones...they show up at the tip top of almost every review page) give books, the more I think they're just "eh." Less stars from them generally equals more stars from me. It's not in spite. It's not intentional. It just happens.
So I should have been prepared for my slight disappointment with Please Ignore Vera Dietz. This was well-written in that the main character (Vera Dietz herself, front and center) had a very clear voice and was a solid, reliable narrator. The issues - death, domestic abuse, substance abuse, bullying, pedophilia, abandonment-by-your-ex-stripper-mother, etc - were abundant and not thoroughly dealt with, which was actually part of the point (with Vera's father "turn the other way" mentality). This book sounds like my perfect mix of literary crack. But something didn't click for me. I didn't feel anything. I liked it well enough, but there will be no fangirl gushing from me on this one.
3 I-Liked-It-But-Meh Stars
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