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“Don’t think. Don’t Judge. Just Listen,” says Sarah Dessen’s book, Just Listen. Just Listen is a book about Annabel Green, a high school sophomore who seems to have it all. But her whole world comes crashing down the summer of her junior year, when she loses her popularity, her friends, and faith in herself, forcing her to return to school with nothing.
Because of having nothing, she goes out on a limb and meets the tall, dark and handsome new boy named Owen, who has anger management problems and is always listening to music to drown out the silence. He’s a former bad boy who has now promised to always tell the truth, no matter what it is. Owens way of living forces Annabel to seriously rethink herself and find out who she really is.
Just Listen has a unique writing style as Dessen creates a sort of diary like book, in which she incorporates a lot of different music genres and songs to explain the character of Owen, as well as Annabel.
Just Listen could be drawn parallel to Laurie Anderson’s Speak, 1999 novel, and I can definitely see the comparisons on how they are fairly similar, but this book has its own unique writing style with more in depth characters with realistic problems other than just the main problem in Speak.
Just Listen is another well reviewed book, as it received numerous reviews from all over the world. “Dessen explores the interior and exterior lives of her characters and shows their flaws, humanity, struggles, and incremental successes. This is young adult fiction at its best, delving into the minds of complex, believable teens, bringing them to life, and making readers want to know more about them with each turn of the page.” Says Roxanne Myers Spencer of Western Kentucky University.
Dessen creates in depth, complex, yet believable characters that keep you hooked until the ending, which is a rare occurrence with teenage fiction nowadays. The book does have quite a bit of coarse language, and some considerably violent scenes, definitely a book for 13+.
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Posted by tifalockhart on 2009-11-06 11:41:50 | Rating: | Views: 5
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