Pretty Girl - 13Liz Coley
Published March 19th 2013 by Katherine Tegen Books
When thirteen-year-old Angela Gracie Chapman looks in the mirror, someone else looks back--a thin, pale stranger, a sixteen-year-old with haunted eyes. Angie has no memory of the past three years, years in which she was lost to the authorities, lost to her family and friends, lost even to herself. Where has she been, who has been living her life, and what is hiding behind the terrible blankness? There are secrets you can’t even tell yourself.
With a tremendous amount of courage and support from unexpected friends, Angie embarks on a journey into the darkest corners of her mind. As she unearths more and more about her past, she discovers a terrifying secret and must decide: when you remember things you wish you could forget, do you destroy the people responsible, or is there another way to feel whole again?
Pretty Girl - 13 is different than most Young Adult that I have read. There are similar Adult books that I have read, but Young Adult? No way.
As a matter of fact, there are not many thrillers and mystery's in the Young Adult genre in general....So when I heard about a new(ish) one, I jumped at the chance of reading it.
-The writing wasn't that great. It got better as the book went on, but as a whole...The writing could have been better.
-The main character is not very realistic in her journey.
-The last hundred pages or so and what happened? A little weird. But I could see where it tied in.
I can see what the author was trying to accomplish, and if not for the writing quality and the unrealistic plot points....I thought that this one was quite well done. After I got through the first hundred pages, the writing did get better, and Pretty Girl - 13 kept me interested till the end.
