Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Bookshelf Challenge: Book #8


What did I read?
I DNF'd "Sloppy Firsts" by Megan McCafferty around the 20 percent mark.

Why didn't I finish it?
Quite frankly, I thought the teenage protagonist was an asshole and I couldn't take it anymore.  I understand that she's a young teen and I imagine that I'm probably 
supposed to watch her grow out of her asshole-itis but I just couldn't hang in there. She sluts shames other girls at school behind their backs with her BFF.  She repeatedly uses a derogatory term that I think is supposed to be jokey but every time she said it I heard the incredibly offensive racist term that it's derived from in my head and cringed.  And then she drops a fat-shaming bomb with a wonderful line about "chunky girls who lumber around the track, hoping to break an eight-minute mile" and I was freaking D-O-N-E done with this book.


Why was it on the shelf?
I used to read YA pretty regularly a few years ago and this series was highly recommended by the wonderful Meg Cabot.  So, I optimistically purchased the first three books in the series in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, it looks like Cabot and I are going to have to agree to disagree on these.

How's the challenge going?
Well, since this is actually a DNF of three books then I guess I'm successfully clearing bookshelf space? So that's good? Oh well, time to keep trucking on.

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