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Second
Anna, a total theater kid, is less pretty and popular than her lookalike twin, Katie, but she doesn't let that get her down. She has two goals for junior year: she wants to become a major player in her high school's drama department, and she wants her best friend to become her boyfriend.
And then an accident changes everything. She's sidelined from acting, and she seems to be losing the guy she's crushing on. What's more, this whack dude from her past--someone she'd like to keep her distance from--keeps trying to reconnect. Anna may have to rethink the role of "Anna." Maybe it's time she stopped being a secondary character in her own life.
And then an accident changes everything. She's sidelined from acting, and she seems to be losing the guy she's crushing on. What's more, this whack dude from her past--someone she'd like to keep her distance from--keeps trying to reconnect. Anna may have to rethink the role of "Anna." Maybe it's time she stopped being a secondary character in her own life.
283 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 18, 2024
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About the author
Sheela Word
18 books19 followersSheela Word is a research psychologist who lives in the Pacific Northwest and strives to build fictional worlds that are psychologically real.
Works include the romantic YA novel "Second," the short-story collection “Nine Princesses: Tales of Love and Romance,” the comic middle-grade novel “Naate (Connections),” the picture book “Hari Loved Dorothy," and the literary novel "All You Need." As a half-Indian and the adoptive mother of two Indian children, Ms. Word has a particular interest in multicultural relationships. She also enjoys exploring historical time periods.
She loves her readers.
Works include the romantic YA novel "Second," the short-story collection “Nine Princesses: Tales of Love and Romance,” the comic middle-grade novel “Naate (Connections),” the picture book “Hari Loved Dorothy," and the literary novel "All You Need." As a half-Indian and the adoptive mother of two Indian children, Ms. Word has a particular interest in multicultural relationships. She also enjoys exploring historical time periods.
She loves her readers.
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October 6, 2024
I thoroughly enjoyed this coming-of-age story of a high school student seeking to redefine how she fits in with her family, friends, and school following an accident and a series of other encounters and discoveries. It took some unexpected and surprising twists, including a reminder about the powers of both good and evil that social media holds, and the ending was fairly satisfying.
It was overall well written, but there was one stylistic choice I strongly disagreed with: the use of "like". I know that many teenagers use it - sometimes a lot - when they speak, but its use in this book was over the top. I understand using it when a teenager is speaking, but in third-person narration it was a bit much. Some of the narrative "like"s were also in unnatural places or interrupted the flow of what otherwise would have been a very powerful sentence. I did try to look past it, but, like, the sheer, like, use of the, like, word make that, like, difficult at times.
The "like" issue aside, as a whole, I was very glad I read this book, and I loved following Anna on her personal journey and seeing her grow into her own person.
It was overall well written, but there was one stylistic choice I strongly disagreed with: the use of "like". I know that many teenagers use it - sometimes a lot - when they speak, but its use in this book was over the top. I understand using it when a teenager is speaking, but in third-person narration it was a bit much. Some of the narrative "like"s were also in unnatural places or interrupted the flow of what otherwise would have been a very powerful sentence. I did try to look past it, but, like, the sheer, like, use of the, like, word make that, like, difficult at times.
The "like" issue aside, as a whole, I was very glad I read this book, and I loved following Anna on her personal journey and seeing her grow into her own person.
November 23, 2024
Very new age with current slang words and high school issues.
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