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par Amanda Maciel

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I. Loved. This. Book.


Sara, her BFF Brielle, and three boys that they are friendly with are all in big trouble. Emma Putnam committed suicide and the blame is being placed solely on them. They are all being charged with bullying, harassment, stalking, and/or assault. Sure Sara didn't like Emma. Yes she maybe said and did some mean things to her. Yes it was her goal in life to get Emma to transfer out of their school. But did she force the girl to kill herself?? Did she put the rope around the girl's neck? And why doesn't everyone see that Emma isn't exactly the angelic martyr that the media is making her out to be? She had flaws too. She did some things that were not so nice herself.

As the trial nears, Sara is finding out that being branded a bully and a villian is a lonely existance. Her whole life exists in a lawyer's office, visits to her therapist, summer school, and the agonizing wait to see exactly what sort of consequences her actions will have.



My Thoughts:
Amazing book!!! I really connected with this book in a big way. It's about mean girls, and the other side of the story. Not the victim's side... the other side. Because every story has 2 sides right? And the thing is, if I read this from the victim's side, I probably would have HATED Brielle and Sara with a passion. But reading it from their side... I didn't hate them at all. I freaking related. I remember being in high school... people were not nice to me at times and I was not nice to them. And yeah it usually was over some guy. I remember feeling exactly like Sara when it came to boys. Like having a boyfriend and being with someone who is considered "cool" meant everything. How my whole freaking day would hinge on whether I got a call or an IM (yeah texting didn't exist back then) from whatever guy I was into. To think about how much energy and emotion I wasted on such dumb relationships honestly exhausts me.

I've seen a lot of bad reviews for this book and mostly it's because people are appalled at Sara not having remorse for what she did to Emma. And I see where they are coming from... but I also think it is unrealistic to believe that everybody in this type of situation would instantly feel responsibility. Sara did not kill Emma. Emma killed herself... and a lot of the reason why Emma killed herself had to do with things she did to make herself a target. If you go after the popular girl's boyfriend and CHEAT with him... you have to expect some backlash. I didn't agree with what Sara and Brielle did to Emma all the time, but I can see why they were pissed at Emma.

A main focus in this book is the friendship between Brielle and Sara. How Brielle is the dominant friend and Sara is always tip-toeing around her. Wanting to still be Brielle's favorite friend, wanting to be in the in-group, wanting Brielle's approval for whatever reason. Holy shit can I relate. I had a friend A LOT like Brielle. She wasn't the queen bee of our school (she didn't even go to my school), but I always felt like I had to be careful around her. And we weren't nice girls. If someone went against us, we held a grudge. I wouldn't say that we were bullies, but we definitely had a few battles with other girls for various reasons (like I said earlier, mostly over some guy).

I loved everything about this book. I loved how it wasn't stereotypical victim-loving. I loved the writing and the dialogue. And I loved how this felt like real high school. Sometimes I felt uncomfortable relating to these "mean girls". And I can't lie, sometimes I really hated Emma as well. She definitely didn't do herself any favors. But I think that's the whole point of the book, to show you that this kind of stuff is complicated. There is no black and white sometimes.

OVERALL: A book about bullying that shows you the flip-side. It's not about the bullying victim, it's about the bullies. It shows how life isn't always black and white, good and bad. I want everyone to read this because I think it shows a really important perspective. It gets a conversation going at the very least.

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  Michelle_PPDB | Mar 18, 2023 |
This review has some pretty mild spoilers (I don't think they reveal much about the story, but read at your own risk)

This is a book that gave me pretty mixed feelings, although overall I liked it a lot, as you can guess from the rating I gave it. The fact that it made me so conflicted is not necessarily a bad thing, though, because in the best of cases it can mean that the story was really compelling. I think that was the case here, because even though I didn’t love the writing style and it had some weak points, I felt like it took a difficult topic and did a good job on conveying to the reader just how complex it is. Bullying is a theme that encompasses a multitude of factors, situations and people, and as the author says on her epilogue, it’s necessary to understand that there are a lot of versions of the same story. I felt like in that regard, the author did a good job of portraying how all these things can mix and relate when it comes to bullying, and I really enjoyed how the feelings at the base of this phenomenon are incorporated into the story, like when Sara says she feels a surge of power and control, and all the times she recognizes her own jealousy and insecurities in relation to Emma. This makes you see Sara as really unapologetic at first, which you slowly realize has to do with the fact that she doesn’t seem to think anything she did was really what pushed Emma over the edge. But what I think the author does really well is that it makes you really think about this, and it makes you start considering how different Sara would probably feel if you, for example, removed her best friend Brielle from the equation. She seems to fuel all the anger Sara feels towards Emma, and empowers her to do things she considers to be kind of ruthless, but that she can come to justify when Brielle goes on talking about how much of a “skank” Emma is.
Even though things like this can be difficult to read when they come from characters as cruel and unapologetic as these ones could be, they offer a perspective on these situations that we have to consider when we want to think critically about them and be able to discuss them having taken different aspects into consideration. That’s why the fact that I was always on the limit between seriously disliking Sara and starting to have more positive feelings towards her was something that I actually enjoyed very much.

This brings up another thing I really liked about this book, and it’s how realistically different types of relationships are portrayed. One of them are dysfunctional or toxic friendships, which is something that you don’t get to see so clearly that often. The author does a really good job in showing how you can get sucked into these relationships where you suddenly feel like part of something important and great, and how difficult it is to see that maybe it’s not so amazing as you thought it was, and more importantly, that it has turned you into someone far worse than you thought you were or very different from how you perceive yourself to be. Through various people’s comments on her friendship with Brielle, Sara starts to question the way she treats her, and how comfortable she really is when she’s around her. What I found was particularly well done was how many mixed feelings you get when you finally get out of these relationships, and how hard it is to finally choose what’s best for you, even if that means leaving behind a person that was so essential to some of the most defining years of your life.
Another relationship was the one between Sara and Dylan, which was actually very much related to Sara’s relationship with Brielle. When Sara loses her virginity, which later she realizes was done in a way to get closer to her friend, she says something along the lines of “I’m just glad I won’t have to worry about it anymore”, which is, I think, what happens in a lot of cases. I hadn’t read a young adult book where this was shown so plainly, and I really appreciated how realistic it was.

With some exceptions, this book had very layered characters, which I think is something that really makes it stand out between others dealing with a similar topic, and helps appreciate the way these relationships are constructed. It was great to see a crack on this bully-victim relationship that seemed to be going on between Sara-Brielle-Emma. Sometimes Emma stood up to them or defied them and did some things that you can say were sort of questionable, and that, in contrast with this whole romanticization of her character that seems to be going on since her passing, makes for a really interesting way of approaching the subject of bullying and for multi-dimensional people. This last thing was what initially kept me reading the book, actually. I really liked how you got to see different aspects of Sara’s personality, and I think the way the story is written, with one chapter set in the present and the other in the past, truly helped that.

Now, onto the things I didn’t really like. I’m gonna start with something related to what I just talked about, and that is the characters that weren’t really that well developed, in my opinion. I’m mainly gonna talk about Brielle, because I think she’s the other character, apart from Sara, that’s most important to the story. I have to say that I really hated how Brielle seemed to fit with this really cliché “mean girl” image. For a minute there I thought we were gonna get to see another side of her and it just ever happened, which is a shame, because I think she had the potential to be a really interesting character. This takes me to something I absolutely hate on any book/show/movie/story, and that I sadly felt was used here, which is rape-or-some-sort-of-sexual-assault-for-character-development trope. This is something that I had anticipated since pretty much the beginning of the book, and when it is finally known that Brielle had suffered through some form of sexual assault, I really hoped that it was gonna be mentioned again or serve some other purpose than to show she was actually vulnerable and not as sure or confident about sex as she seemed. But this was never mentioned again, didn’t relate in any way to the rest of the story or its characters. I had truly hoped this wasn’t going to happen and I was sad to see it did, because for me it takes from the story a lot and makes me not like it as much as I could had it been handled in a better way.
Another character that I felt was portrayed very very badly was the therapist, but I’m not gonna explain this right now, because it’s one of my biggest pet peeves ever and the reasons for this are pretty personal, so it would make this review endless if I attempted to write them down.

Another thing I didn’t appreciate was all the slut-shaming that went on, but then again I had to remind myself that this was from the point of view of a teenager. Not that this excuses it in any way, but it helps put the whole thing in perspective a little bit when I think of the way I myself thought of some things as a teenager and the way I think about the same stuff now as an adult. But I have to say, the whole thing about Emma being beautiful and boys liking her, and that playing such a big part on her being bullied, is something that made me very conflicted, because even though in a lot of cases that really is what fuels these type of situations, at times I felt like here it came across as kind of cartoonish. This, I guess, is related to the writing, which overall wasn’t as good as it could’ve been, and at the beginning pulled me away from the story a little bit. As I got farther into the book this seemed to bother me less and less, though, and I think the story was good enough to make you not really care about this that much.

The last thing I’m gonna talk about and that I didn’t really like was how Sara was constantly having these… epiphanies, I guess you could call them. Even though I got that the author was trying to convey that she was actually a nice enough girl, or a product of her environment and circumstances or social constructs, I felt it was pretty unrealistic, the way she seemed to have these really mature revelations all of a sudden. This was especially weird for me during the chapter where the trial happens, because her statement, even though I felt it showed pretty much what a person that can see how badly they acted would end up feeling about the whole situation, was a little too ideal and said all the right things. I felt like it ended up being kind of sloppy and I would’ve liked to see a little more subtlety on her character growth throughout the book.

All in all this was a book that I really enjoyed, and it made me think and feel enough to prompt me to write about it, so I’d say it does its job. I’d definitely recommend it and be interested in discussing it with someone else, because I feel like the topic it features is dealt with in a good way and really adds to other works with a similar subject. Props to the author for including some really good resources related to bullying at the end of the book, and for taking on a topic that is always difficult to approach in a sensible way.
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  Booksen | Jun 23, 2017 |
This book should really come with an advance warning that you probably won’t like any of the characters involved. Despite that I really feel it should be read by every teenager and every parent of a teenager and possibly everyone who runs any sort of social networking site. It’s a truly horrifying glimpse into how bullying has developed and become ever so more sophisticated in the digital age.
‘Emma Putnam is dead, and it's all Sara Wharton's fault.’ Persistently bullied by Sara and her friends she hangs herself in her parent’s garage. However this is not really Emma’s story, this is a story about the aftermath of her death and how much responsibility Sara will accept for her actions. The answer to this question is not a lot, a fact that I know has annoyed a lot of readers judging by some other reviews I have read. For me this book was a great insight into the selfish world in which some teenagers exist. To Sara its simple, Emma could have been stronger, left school, left the area and most of all stopped flirting with all the boys. However this is not to say that Sara is unaffected by Emma’s death and as the story progresses we learn a lot more about her weaknesses and unhappiness and begin to see how they might have led to her persecution of Emma.
She was not alone in her bullying, Brielle her domineering best friend was heavily involved as were he clique of older friends. It was Dylan who really riled me though. He was so weak and pathetic, cheating on everyone and making some half-hearted suggestions that they might want to leave Emma alone. I was surprised that other reviewers were as angry at the character of Sara as, for me it him that should have shouldered a lot of responsibility for what happened.
In conclusion this is not a book that offers any answers about to the problem of bullying but it does offer a lot on insight into the thought processes of those who bully and that alone is enough to teach people a lot.
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  angelaoatham | Feb 21, 2017 |
The author did a marvelous job of showing us two sides of the issue and leading us to identify with Sara - not the ringleader of the bullying circle but someone just as guilty. Amanda Maciel showed us how easy it is to get caught up with friends and not realize the effect of actions. ( )
  olegalCA | Nov 30, 2016 |
I had high hopes for this book, but it didn't deliver. From the start, I hated Sara, the protagonist. She is a bully and never seems to realise how her actions played a pivotal role in Emma's death, nor does she show any real remorse. Instead she whines about how people are now treating her and sees herself as the victim. I found Sara totally obnoxious and I lost interest about halfway through. ( )
  HeatherLINC | Jan 23, 2016 |
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