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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