Twisted Review

Twisted By Laurie Halse Anderson

Tyler has always loved videogames and been the invisible kid, so one day in high school he decided to do something about it, so he starts to spraypaint his school. But he gets caught, arrested and has to spend his summer working, so the school can have money to fix it. This results in Tyler having totaly change for the next school year, now he has muscles and everything. At the end of summer his family goes to a party at his father´s bosses house. His dads boss is Brice Milbury, who owns Milbury Brothers Trust. He is also the father to Bethany and Chip. Chip beign Tyler´s enemy and Bethany his dream girlfriend. After an accident at the party, Bethany has hurt her food from glass. And Tyler slowly begins to become closer to Bethany, but Chip is more and more after him. His family life has never been the easiest and it still isn´t. And suddenly he is claimed to have raped and stalked Bethany. Tyler even go as far as suicide and running away, but eventually stops himself and starts to make thing right with his family, realising that Bethany was never anything for him, and his sister and best friend relationsship.

Sooo, this book was so boring, slow and nothing really happens. I can see the bigger issue with the family Tyler is living in and his suicide attempt and fitting in, but not really something i care about right now. I think that as a character it is some pretty ridicules things Tyler says to Bethany, going down on the floor for her and stuff. I didn´t really liked the fact that everyone was after Tyler like that, it didn´t seem real when the police started doing it too. I think it had a really weird ending, but at the same time it fittet the book. I do on the otherhand think that the cover is kind of cool.

Grade: 2