Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Speak
Pages: 371
Started December 29th 2016
Finished: DNF (Did Not Finish)
I don't remember when I got this book, how long I've had it sitting on my shelf, or how many times I have tried to read it. It's always seemed to be there. I think I have tried to read it multiple times as there are some pages early on that have creases in the corners. By me who knows.
Just Listen follows Annabel a high school student who is the youngest of three daughters who are all models. Annabel's sisters moved to New York, where the oldest sister decides she doesn't want to be a model anymore and takes classes at college and the middle sister becomes seriously ill.
It also explores the friendship and beaksown of the friendship between Annabel and Sophie from how they met to Sophie not talking to Annabel. Also in the mix is Annabels childhood friend Clarke.
Also it tells the backstory of how Annabel and her sisters get into modelling.
At first I found the book super hard to get into. There were so much going on. From the end of the friendships, modelling, the middle sisters weight loss, it was all over the place and was dipping in and out of each story. I loved the dipping in and out of another book but that worked well
Even though the story goes in and out I like how it covers hard topics such as an eating disorder, how one person getting an opportunity in something has a knock on effect and how people can be influenced by others.
I couldn't finish it. It's that bad that it's just gonna sit there on my self until I think it's the right time to read it. I don't know if it's a totally bad book it could get better but I don't want to give it that opportunity.
I'm doing a review on it now because I can't actually see myself finishing it in a long time. Even though I don't like to leave a book unread when I started reading it, (I have done that a lot with other books but have always finished the book at some point) I really didn't like Just Listen enough to justify reading it again.
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