the list by siobhan vivian chapter summaries

Too many characters with their important issues that are never fully explored and never given any kind of closure. There's just not enough! And there's not enough because there's too much. What will Lauren do about her mum trying to pull her out of school? Accept it or fight for her right to a normal teen life? What's next for Jennifer? Will her and Margo ever smooth things over? Is Candace finally going to stop being the bitch she's always been? Will Bridget ever recover from her anorexia? She's still starving herself at the novel's end. Sorry for feeling the need to include these spoilers, but the ending told us nothing about more than half the girls. ************************spoilers ahead*************************īut the worst thing that stopped me from giving this the three stars meaning 'I liked it' was the lack of closure/solutions for most of the girls. To fully explore all of those issues mentioned you'd need a full book on each, the idea was just too ambitious. great! Five stars for intention!! But the most any character got was six chapters from their POV and this wasn't enough to fully develop their story and an understanding of the way they felt. Vivian tackles bullying, anorexia, friend troubles, family troubles, boy troubles, being an outsider. EIGHT! The eight POVs were the girls, two from each grade, who were labelled prettiest and ugliet of their year by the mysterious author of THE LIST.

I don't usually enjoy books with more than one POV. The problem is that the author bit off more than she could chew. I liked that Siobhan Vivian recognised that being labelled in a certain way can be a blessing or a burden, depending on the person involved. How one moment - whether fortunate or not - can completely change the way you are seen for the next four years. This is a novel about teenage girls and how different an experience high school can be depending on the way you look and who your friends are. 5 star because the book has that compulsive readability, I can't be entirely negative about a novel that is so easy to read that you can easily lose a few hours without realising it. And I think that was mostly because it tried too hard to be a number of different things and, by doing so, was stretched too thin and failed to achieve any of the initial goals. As with Not That Kind Of Girl, I thought this book had the potential to be really good and I'm sure the author set out with the greatest of intentions.

To say that this was one of my most anticipated books of 2012, I am really disappointed.

The list by siobhan vivian chapter summaries