Treacherous Love

by Harpercollins Childrens Books

Product Details

• ASIN: B001IC7GOW
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not how a teenager really thinks or feels, June 1, 2004

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Rayna (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager (Mass Market Paperback)

I read this book becuase it looked good and I saw alot of good reviews on amazon, but it was a huge dissapointment. Its not realistic at all. She is constantly saing she is a negative thinker and going off to the park and crying with her friends or mother and just making all of these connections that a real teenager never would. Theres too many CAPITALS and exclimation marks!!! with everything she said its almost mocking, that teenagers are total idiots. Its distracting from the story, that in reality isnt that good. Its hard to explain, but i was not suprised this was written by a psychiatrist. this person obviously was just trying to tell teenagers not to have relationships with teachers, and not writing a good book. Its a dissapointment. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY. This person needs to stop writing books, they are horrible.

32 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Victimization and preaching, May 31, 2002

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Claire Hennessy (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager (Mass Market Paperback)

There are two things Beatrice Sparks is good at (sorry to disappoint you, kids, there's no "anonymous teenager" handing their diaries over to her for editing) - creating victims and preaching. Even while dealing with issue of teenage pregnancy, she chose to have the character be raped so that she was absolved from responsibility. This book is no exception. As for the preaching - the character constantly berates herself for not being positive enough, and reminding herself what she's grateful for, usually accompanied by capital letters and excessive exclamation marks. The narrator is too-good-to-be-true and her style too juvenile for her age, but if you enjoyed other works by Dr Sparks, pick it up - it's almost identical to everything else she's written.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Eh...., March 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was ok... After reading a few pages I had to assume that this was not a realy diary. It is tto preachy (like how she is always scolding herself for being sad or mad at someone, just not something a real teenage girl would do). Also after a while I started to hope either something interesting and realistic would happen or the book would just be over. The ending is too perfect and abrupt for an "actual" girl's account of her affair with her teacher. I have read quite a few diary books and this one is not one of the better and more believable ones. It made me kind of depressed for this girl who is being used and I am not sure whether or not it was a waste of time to read it. Either way, teenage girls might want to read it so they can see the signs of a teacher who wants more that just good grades from you.