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Summary: It happens to Nancy
Review: I'm 15 years old, so basically Nancy was not real to me. No one I know is that nieve or calls God The Creator. It just wasn't real, so were her emotions and thats because of the way she acted, she seemed like a 9 year old because she kept on viewing her friends as nothing but children because they didn't know someone like Collin..
Also I think that by the time someone is 14 years old they can tell the difference between a middle-aged man and an 18 year old guy. It's just unrealistic, also it gives adults the wrong message. Thats because it make adults think that a 14 year old when being raped would think about the place.. When thats just plain bull, I think that when someone is being raped they would think about how to stop the guy persuing her..
And the fact that she had some friends who covered for her but never asked her what was going on was just unrealistic.
Anyway don't waste your time on this book if you know how a 14 year old acts because it will seem so unreal that you wouldn't bother finishing it like me because of all the faults you'll find by reading a couple of pages..
I think that most probebly a pre-teen can belive this sense they have no idea how life is when someone is 14 years old.
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Summary: it's okay
Review: I wasen't really affected by the way this book was writen - but it's still a good read. The plotline kept my interest...though the ending must've not been very interesting because I can't remember it.
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Summary: Moving book in spite of possibly being fradulent
Review: I read this book twice in a row at fourteen and cried at the end both times, after having earlier scoffed at the book because of how stupid and naïve Nancy acted. It's really upsetting to find it may be largely or entirely a fraud, that this sweet courageous young person may have been made up or had her life made into something that was largely the creation of Dr. Sparks. A lot of girls are like Nancy and don't see anything fishy about an older man wanting to date them or letting an older boyfriend spend the night when their parents are away. During the stampede (or whatever the chaos was) at the Garth Brooks concert she attends with her friends, Nancy has an asthma attack and finds herself being taken care of by a strange older boy named Collin. She never tells him to get away from her because she doesn't know him, or tell him he's too old for her at her age. (Four years of age difference in a relationship isn't that big of a deal, but if you're 14 and 18, it's not the same as, say, an 18 year old and a 22 year old.) She never even tells her mother about this relationship, or any of her friends. It turns out his real name is Gary and that he's 32 years old.In hindsight some of it does seem too fishy to be true. How was Nancy's doctor able to give her an HIV test without her knowledge or permission, why does her disease get so serious so fast (unless Collin had a full-blown case when he gave it to her, or because of her strained immune system due to her serious asthma), why doesn't she go down to the Catholic rape crisis centre she called the morning after her attack, after telling the sympathetic nun on the phone she'd come over, why doesn't her mother take her to get tested for AIDS, STDs, or pregnancy as soon as she tells her about the rape? She takes her out of town on a beach vacation instead? And it's suspicious how all of Sparks's young diarists have the same exact moral preachiness, similar writing styles, never say anything against their parents (or if they do they quickly take it back), never get involved in these problems by their own accord but instead are pulled in by friends who drug them, rape them, or talk them into Satanic beliefs. Nancy may be a sweet religious old-fashioned Southern girl, but surely she couldn't have been that naïve. I was a few years younger than Nancy at the time these events are going on in the early Nineties, and well remember what the climate was like at that time, people deathly afraid of getting AIDS from toilet seats or mosquito bites, people desperate for more funding for research because so many people were dying and getting sick. None of that was felt in her small South Carolina town? It's a moving book with a powerful and important message, but I no longer view it the same way I did when I first read it and thought it was a 100% true story.
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Summary: a must read
Review: This book was amazing!!! It soooo sad it was a true story because it happen to such a bright girl. Nancy, I found she was easy to relate to understood her, well reading the book you grow to love Nancy & respect her. Nobody should have to go through that... I learn so much from this book I learn facts thanks to Nancy that can save my life just from reading this book because I know what to do in the suction. Just like know I know if your ever rape to not wash up or change clothes afterwards go straight the police because it a evidence. My instinct before would have to change & take a shower. But Nancy writing is so descriptive she could have been a very famous writer I think, sooo sad this is the only book she wrote. This book should be read by all teenagers especially!! This book should be our teacher in school make sure we read. I think parents should read this book with the children & talk about this true story & what really happens if you don't be careful. This book is good for anybody who wants to know the truth about AIDS. This story is about a young teen who thinks she find love but all really she found was she had HIV virus. This story is the most dramatic story I ever read, it is almost being put into some else life. Nancy story is a story I will never forget & it is true & so sad because they can never be an other Nancy...
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