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Wannabe

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I have read "Crosses" and "Tomorrow Wendy, A Love Story" by Shelley Stoerh and loved them both, so when I bought "Wannabe" i expected it to be just as good if not better. Boy, was I in for a surprise. The book has no plot whatsoever and it is obviously coming from someone who has no experience with what the book is about. I do not recomment it to ANYONE! Shelley Stoehr is normally a great author, but "Wannabe" is one of the worst books I've ever read!

The characters were not likeable and I wanted them to have an OVERDOSE and die a horible painfull death!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought that in this book there was too much swaring and it was very depressing. I think that it was very unrealistic because you couldn't drop the cocane that fast.

Parents need to know that this book contains obscene and sexually explicit language. Comments on the back cover compare this book to Robinson Crusoe and Gary Paulsen's Hatchet. This is hardly the case.

The story "Wannabe" by Shelly Stoehr is about a girl in the real life of New York City. She works at a bar called "Gattos". She has a younger brother who also does nothing but gets in trouble and two un-loving parents that just yells and beats them. She has a friend named Erica and a boyfriend named Joey Valentino.Her boss is named Mario and her co-worker is named Paulie. Catherine is kind of a different character in the story than in other characters in the stories you would find. She gets in trouble alot, smokes, does other drugs, and cusses. This is an emotionally powerful novel that describes with great intensity a trap adolescent behavior and beliefs.

As an Italian American I was very disappointed and offended by this book. Stoehr stereo-types her characters and the plot was non-existent. I have read her other books like Crosses and Weird on the Outside. I was also very disappointed by these books as well. I do not understand how Stoehr gets any of her work published! Even as a teen-aged reader, I can tell what a horrible Author she really is.