Status Updates From The Headmaster's List

92 pages in and I'm still not a fan of this at all. First of all, how does one with half her body broken manage to put on heavy sportswear??? Second of all, wow...more telling than showing.

And one more thing I want to add: THE HEADMASTER GUILT-TRIPPED SPENCER BY THREATENING HER STANDING ON THE LIST.

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK. (yes, I had to swear here. No, I'm not sorry)

WHO DOES THIS??? That headmaster needs to step down right now because he shouldn't be there. It's like he pretends to care, but really just doesn't. This is BS.

First of all, THIS HEADMASTER IS DIABOLICAL. He knows Spencer's injured. That she probably shouldn't move that much. And yet he tells her to go to someone's house to collect printing anyway. The hell??? Also, why can Spencer carry things in her backpack? And the writing at the end of the chapter is more like a summary. She thanked him...Jack offered to carry her bag...yeah. What did they say? I'm not a fan anymore :\

I know my previous update was only just now, but what is this?

...which was wasn't likely since Armstrong's class sizes were small...

#1 NYT bestselling author btw. From Roaring Brook Press. How this, and the rest of the worst of the awkward prose, managed to get past the editing is beyond me.

Prose still awkward to read, and the story...Spencer, what do you mean you, whose upper body has been rendered useless, are going to ride a bike to school? And why didn't her parents stop her, despite the fact that they know she shouldn't do that? So she can't use her chopsticks or write with her dominant hand, but she *can* ride a whole-ass bike across the street to school? Nope, sorry, can't buy the circumstances.

The prose tells more than shows and is a bit repetitive at some areas to the point where it's annoying, and sure, it was awkward to read aloud (especially that poem in the beginning; it can barely be considered a poem), but the story seems interesting so far.