Crazy in Love
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- £4.49
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- £4.49
Publisher Description
In this cute coming-of-age story, a young girl battles between sticking to a pledge of abstinence and her desire for something more.
“Mackall hits the nail on the head with her poignant description of first love and sexual yearning.”—School Library Journal
“All the ingredients are here for a fun, frothy teen romance.”—VOYA
High school senior Mary Jane Ettermeyer has been the good girl for a long time. To date, she’s proud to say she’s been able to keep her pledge of abstinence (not that anyone as challenged it). But when the cutest guy in school starts flirting with her, she suddenly finds herself crazy in love, even though:
a. Her inner Plain Jane is telling her he can’t possibly think she’s cute.
b. Her inner Sexy M. J. is questioning her vow to keep herself pure until marriage.
c. Hot Jackson House shouldn’t even be talking to her, because he already has a girlfriend!
d. Her friends warn that her reputation is at stake.
e. Her parents sit her down for “the talk”.
Which are all good reasons why she should never speak to Jackson again. Except that every time she sees him, all of her resistance seems to melt away. . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
High school senior Mary Jane has two voices in her head: Plain Jane puts her down and demands that she be a good girl, while M.J., "a voice that can only be described as sexy," encourages her to take what she wants. These two voices battle it out as Mary Jane develops a "monster-truck-sized crush" on Jackson, who happens to be dating the school's queen bee. When Mary Jane starts dating him, the voices' arguments center around whether she should have sex with Jackson-in violation of an abstinence promise she made with her friends years ago ("Abstinence in Action!"). Mary Jane has some smart insights about the dynamics of girl friendships ("To the casual observer, The Girls are one big happy family tree... But from the inside, The Girls are all too aware of the delicate system of interlocking branches, the swaying and creaking of those branches in the wind"), and she eventually draws a perceptive conclusion about her internal voices, realizing that everyone "feels like we're different people" sometimes. Even so, readers may be confused when the book suddenly shifts from a story about clique politics to one about first romance. Some characters, like the heroine's two friends who parallel her internal voices, or Mary Jane's always sweet mentally retarded sister, remain two-dimensional. In the end, Mary Jane's story never comes to life. Ages 13-up.
