TRUST EXERCISE

by Susan Choi
 

If judging a book by its blurb ever worked, this would seem like the perfect one for me.  It’s a coming of age story about a young woman at a performing arts high school.  She falls in and out of love with a classmate, with acting and with theatre education as a concept.  But this book is boring and kind of dumb.  About halfway through, the author switches narrators and you realize there is a “concept” to provide a larger frame for the book.  Essentially she rewrites the story from different perspectives, again not the most original move.

In the end, I would say the story is juicy, but the plot is predictable and there are many better books about young performers and the arts! (Lily)