I couldn’t put this book down! But the last 4 pages utterly confused me. Why so many questions left unanswered? Great book, not so great ending
By MostlyFiction.com on 8/30/09
Why do people blog? In the raw novel UNDISCOVERED GYRL, Katie Kampenfelt, a seventeen year old starts a blog to chronicle her life in the year she takes off between high school and college. The book is formatted like blog entries, giving the reader a voyeuristic look into her escapades. Her real name isn’t Katie, she changes identifying details about herself, friends, and family so she can be completely honest, because “what’s the point of blogging if you’re not going to tell the truth?”
In UNDISCOVERED GYRL, Allison Burnett pulls of an amazing feat. He creates an unlikable narrator and manages to make readers keep turning the pages to discover what happens to her. Reading Kate’s blog is like the gaper delay after a car crash on the highway, you feel bad for looking but can’t stop the impulse.
i agree with morgan, i read it in about three days..it was an amazing book, i could not put it down. the ending was a little unexpected, when i read that first sentence from her mother stating that she was missing my heart just dropped, that’s the most emotion i’ve felt towards a book.
I couldn’t put this book down! But the last 4 pages utterly confused me. Why so many questions left unanswered? Great book, not so great ending
Why do people blog? In the raw novel UNDISCOVERED GYRL, Katie Kampenfelt, a seventeen year old starts a blog to chronicle her life in the year she takes off between high school and college. The book is formatted like blog entries, giving the reader a voyeuristic look into her escapades. Her real name isn’t Katie, she changes identifying details about herself, friends, and family so she can be completely honest, because “what’s the point of blogging if you’re not going to tell the truth?”
In UNDISCOVERED GYRL, Allison Burnett pulls of an amazing feat. He creates an unlikable narrator and manages to make readers keep turning the pages to discover what happens to her. Reading Kate’s blog is like the gaper delay after a car crash on the highway, you feel bad for looking but can’t stop the impulse.
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http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/2009/undiscovered-gyrl-by-allison-burnett/
[Publisher's Note: Spoiler Alert]
i agree with morgan, i read it in about three days..it was an amazing book, i could not put it down. the ending was a little unexpected, when i read that first sentence from her mother stating that she was missing my heart just dropped, that’s the most emotion i’ve felt towards a book.