[fiction] Peeled

By: Joan Bauer [Newberry Honor of Hope Was Here]

Wow a book from this very year? I never thought I'd see it seriously. This is a really amazing work of art. Rich, warm, and humorous. It's current, it's unexpected actually. For one moment I actually thought this was a horror book. But it seems like.. and entertaining philosophy guide if you ask me. Personally I believe if you understand more about yourself you're one step closer to becoming a genius. Bauer's got a real talent to tell a story with hilarious scenes that you can never get out of your head. It seemed more about the truth and it seemed to also be saying truth isn't always magic and ghosts even in a fiction story.

Peeled has actually gotten me thinking and realizing many things. It even made my day at one point. The characters where actually carved in the back of your head. It comes to a point where you hear their name and you somehow know exactly how they talk how they say it and even... if they could be smiling. I think it was beautiful. A well balanced and fun story. Fast pace which is great and amazing how it can just make you laugh. Books don't usually get that out of me you know? Some scenes were so funny that I even ended up tabbing the pages with my yellow sticky strips. Read 'em over and over. The whole concept of journalism. It helped very much with the story. Joan sure is talented.

I do have to mention something though. The ending -- I didn't see it coming. It wasnt' a twist or anything. It was actually a beautiful line of simple words. And it wasn't I love you lol I'll tell you that. But the thing is -- it was at the end of the page XD. And that actually killed me. Because I didn't know that was the ending. And I couldn't savour it and say wow. In fact after I was done and saw the thankyou page and thought "ehh? what thats the end? Oh.." I read the ending again. It's like "reading the ending with great passion and excitement : Take 2". Haha. Well the ending was a little nice actually. But that's not Bauer's fault for the page thing. I'm just dumb lol.

The main theme being truth and study of fear -- I thought this book was exceptionally written in that sense. No plot twists just peeling away to search for truth. Learning more. The only the thing that goes wrong is basically, the lies. Proven in the end, the good guys always do win if you keep your mind to it.

Persistence is remarkable when you want it to be. That is a good lesson taught in this book. Of course with a spark of laughter.

Seriously as soon as Hildy started saying WHAZZAT I cracked up for half an hour.

Mark: 10/10

* Thank you Jean you made my day. haha. ♥