April Book Review (1)

Happy Tuesday everyone,

That was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton

My rating: ★★★★★ until it gets to the ending and then it's more like ★★★

This... Is upsetting is what it is.

I really loved S. E. Hinton's first book, The Outsiders and eventually wanted to read her other books and was given the motivation when I was assigned a literary analysis on an author I liked for my English class. I really liked this book until it got to its very upsetting ending which I just read so I'm a bit conflicted on how I now feel about the book overall. Ponyboy from The Outsiders makes an appearance and I thought that was really cool because I love his character. The character of this book goes through so many tragedies that he becomes numb to the point of turning in his best friend who's like a brother to him when he discovers he's selling drugs (due to his past record he is sentenced to five years) and he stops caring about his girlfriend who he really loved and other friends. And that is the end. The book ends with him losing everything. Upsetting.

Totally Ky