Speak

This book is by Laurie Halse Anderson. The reason why I was intrigued enough to read the book was the cover was really interesting to me so I decided why not lets read this book. I was sucked into it right away to the story and especially to the main character Melinda Sordino. Because in the book she called the cops to an end-of-the summer party because a certain incident that toke place there. The incident which isn’t spoken out loud in the book is something that I won’t reveal in this mini review. But anyway the consequences of her action resulted being shunned by everyone even her friends. So she then becomes a complete loner but the tragic part of her ordeal is that she has become mute because she doesn’t want to talk about what happened at the party. But even if she hides within her head the truth won’t go away which she tried desperately to hide.

            I was really caught up with this story because on one hand I found this story funny because the fact the main character has a very sarcastic sense of humor that goes on her thought. But on the other hand this story is very dark and I feel so sorry from all the pain that Melinda has to go through in order to redeem herself for something that was not her fault. But in the end I was cheering her on for finally standing up for herself and finally speaking the truth regardless the pain it caused her for bottling it up. But I think the reason why this book is very good is the fact that the character is endearing and really wish for her happiness through the book and applauding her for discovering this better version of herself in the end.