Connie: Did anyone care if she lived or died?

by John Benton

You may have seen her downtown. She's seventeen and very good-looking. She never looks too happy. I guess you wouldn't either if you were her. She always seems to be in some kind of trouble. The cops are suspicious of her boyfriend — and they're beginning to look at her sideways, too. Too bad, because really, she's a good kid at heart.

Maybe you've seen Connie walking home from high school in the afternoon. She lives in one of those big houses on the expensive side of town. Her folks aren't home much. They say her mom drinks and her dad runs around. Wonder what will happen to her... Wonder if there's anything that could pull that family together. Anything? Or Someone?

1 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 1982

Reviews

[Dawn Michelle]

I am not sure how to rate this now - if it was back in 1979[ish - I was 11 when I started that school] when I first picked this [and the rest of the John Benton books] book up off the "library" shelf at the very small Christian school I attended [WHO thinks these kind of books were okay for sheltered, naive, uninformed kids? Because they had a "christian" message, that made them okay. Trust me, we were not reading them for that message, that's for darn sure], I would have rated it 5 stars. I was totally into these books as it showed a world I had never seen before and I read them over and over and over again. I could have cared less about the "message"; it was all about the details and the "sex" and the salaciousness of them. And now, as an adult who has seen the world and looks at things through a much different lens, these books seem..tawdry and very sensationalized and a bit scandalous IMO. So I am going to leave this one [and all the others that I am going to review [with this same review] with no rating. I am really torn now, as an adult, as to what I think about these books.

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

i read it in my early teens and became my old time favorite.