Another post where I review it a book while only having read part or none of it (the first was on the House of Night comic book). I was planning on reading this book and almost did once but I ended up having to bring it back to the library to avoid fees. I stopped my idea of reading it because of this. Reasons:
1.  Study  your  characters  and  make  Peter,  I  don't  know,  Peter?!  He  was  shy.  Sharon  made  him  completely  the  opposite  of  who  he  really  was.  That's  just  sad  considering  we  don't  actually  know  that  much  about  him.
2.  Sex.  Yes  I  believe  Anne  Frank  and  Peter  were  in  love  and  I  do  believe  they  had  hormones  flying  off  the  wall,  but  I  don't  believe  they  ever  had  sex.  I  know  sex  concerned  both  of  them  personally  before  going  into  hiding  and  I  can  understand  the  idea  of  them  wanting  to  have  sex  with  each  other,  but  this  is  just  inexcusable.  And  what  happened  to  both  of  them  was  awful.  I  read  Anne's  best  friend  Hannah's  account  on  her  in  the  camp  and  I  was  almost  in  tears.  We  don't  read  Anne  Frank's  diary  for  sex,  we  read  it  to  understand  the  last  years  of  a  girl's  life  and  the  tragedy  happening  because  of  it.  This  is  exploiting  a  tragedy.  
3.  I  will  soon  be  reading  Anne  Frank  and  Me.  The  girl  in  the  book  only  sees  Anne  at  the  concentration  camps.  I  plan  to  review  it  later,  but  for  now  I  find  it  much  more  realistic  to  Anne  than  this  book  ever could  be  even  if  it  involves  time  traveling!
4.  You  could  write  your  own  novel.  You  want  sex?  Write  about  a  Jewish  boy  and  girl  in  hiding  who  happen  to  be  horny  as  hell.  You  can  write  it,  but  don't  use  Anne  Frank.  
I will not be reading this over and completely hyper-sexual trash.
May Anne, and all her friends and family who are dead, whether they died in the Holocaust or not, rest in peace.
Side note: I learned about Hannah through this amazing, five star book. I strongly recommend it.
I will not be reading this over and completely hyper-sexual trash.
May Anne, and all her friends and family who are dead, whether they died in the Holocaust or not, rest in peace.
Side note: I learned about Hannah through this amazing, five star book. I strongly recommend it.


I followed the link on feministe for this, and wanted to thank you. I'd never read that book either. Talk about exploitative. Ugh.
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