Stalker Girl [NOOK Book]

Question

Is this book any good bcuz the last time some1 reveiwed this was 12/1/11
-Danie

Read it!

This is a story of a young sixteen-year-old girl named Carly Finnegan. Carly has lived in Manhattan all her life and she is a senior in high school. Everything seems all fun and games until Carly¿s world had just fallen apart. She had been planning to go to Turkey with her father for an archaeological dig; but when her stepmother (Ann) found out that she is pregnant, her father does not go which leaves Carly devastated. Meanwhile, her mother and stepfather (Nick) split up after thirteen years of being together, so Carly and her mother move out his loft. Carly does not know what to expect now that her life has been ruined.


Description and summary of main points
Carly flashes back to how stalking her ex-boyfriend¿s new girlfriends came to be, as she stalking Taylor. Carly, her mother, and her younger sister go to camp. Carly¿s mother is the new camp director and Carly is the new kitchen assistant. While Carly starts her job, she befriends and boy named Brian, his brother (Amery), and their cousin (Liam). Later on, Brian and Carly start to date, but then, Carly becomes needy and possessive of Brian, so he breaks up with her. Carly finds out that Brian has a new girlfriend (Taylor), Carly needs to know everything about her. Carly knows that it is wrong, but she just cannot help herself.
Evaluation
¿She wasn¿t always like this. If you¿d meet Carly, say, just six months before, you wouldn¿t have pegged her as a stalker in the making.¿ What this means is that six months ago, if Brian didn¿t break up with her, or if Carly had not been so needy and possessive of Brian maybe she wouldn¿t have been a stalker.
Conclusion
Carly comes to her senses and she has stopped stalking Brian¿s new girlfriend, and actually befriends with her. Carly¿s life is just slowly getting pieces back together, even if it means that it will take a long time for it go to go back to the way that it originally did.
Your final review
I recommend this book to anyone who loves reading, and who is a middle school student. I think that this book is full of love and betrayal, which would be good for anyone who likes romance and/or likes betrayal. This book is great for teens or young adults. I recommend it to all.

So Sad It's Over!

I loved this book on every level. That's the thing-there are a lot of levels to this book. First there's the whole premise of girl stalking boy. That's creepy and exciting in the best possible, page-flipping kinda way. Second, Graham is a master of complexity. This isn't a shallow, rubber-necking tale of someone's over-the-top, inauthentic, psychological demise. If it were just that, I wouldn't have liked Carly and would have had no stake in the story. Instead, Graham lays an interesting, completely believable web of events that lead to Carly's undoing. I was really touched by this character, so much so that I found myself trying to scream through the pages at her.

Graham twists the story into intriguing knots by unraveling it from the end. We start with the blow-up and then trace back to the lighting of the fuse. From there we get multiple layers of change and sadness in her life. Then we follow the sparks of the fuse all the way back to the first chapter.

This book combines my two favorite genres, love story and psychological thriller. I was both riveted by the rush of the suspense and by the series of crises that transformed the character. Carly didn't crash and burn. She crashed, singed, showered and moved on. I found her resilience inspiring.

An Interesting Novel

I've been wanting to read Stalker Girl for a while now. Since the premise sounded interesting and intense, I've read Rosemary Graham's previous and fabulous novel Thou Shalt Not Dump the Skater Dude a couple of years ago, and after seeing the book trailer for this, I was even more excited. So the minute this landed in my hands, I dived right in, eager to find out what my final verdict on this story would be.

Thankfully, Stalker Girl provided mostly everything I hoped it would be. What's that, per say? Well, a unique, interesting, and provocative look into what happens when one girl goes too far when it comes to her and her former boyfriend's girlfriend.

When Stalker Girl opens up, you get hurled into the day when Carly first makes the mistake of stalking Taylor, Carly's ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend, leaving Carly to come off as character I thought was a complete nut-job. And in some ways she was. She went way too far as you'll see if you read this book than most normal girl's would go if they were in the same situation. Though, you also got to see a different side of Carly in part two when Rosemary shows the ups and downs of Carly and Brian's relationship. The side that showed Carly in a new light where she were her actions became, to some extent, explainable. Since she was a girl who was facing a lot, and because of that she just wanted to be loved and wanted; leaving that to be were Brain fit in. He was meant to be her hero, I guess you would say, but it turned out he was far from being able to filling the part of Carly that was missing.

This all left me to somewhat understand Carly by the end, but I was still far from liking her. Though, in my opinion, I don't think she was meant to be liked; instead I think she was meant to be an example of what girls shouldn't do when it comes to comes to break-ups, how instead of taking Carly's confusing and forbidden road, should call a friend and rant, and, most importantly, move on, even if it does hurt like heck.

Moving on, the execution of the premise was pretty great; something that nearly always had my full attention. I really liked seeing the many sides of Carly through the three parts, as well as the epilogue Rosemary provided that gave you hope for Carly and her family/friends. Also I was often on the edge of my seat eager to find out more as new parts of the story were reveled through the third person narration.

Graham's writing was a high point too. Since it flowed perfectly and showed true talent, one that I'll be looking to read to more by.

In all Stalker Girl is a book I highly suggest because it gives you not only a look into a topic that there isn't much of in YA, but it shows teen girls (and even guys) what not to do when it comes to you, your exs, and their new relationships.

Grade: B+

obsession...

The book was written in three parts. Carly stalking her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend named Taylor. Part two was the time Carly met her ex-boyfriend Brian and the third part is where the consequences of her deranged fixation on Taylor happens.

I was expecting a girl stalking her ex-boyfriend not a girl stalking her ex-boyfriend's new girl friend. it was completely freaky and absolutely deranged. But I guess it made sense. I think I kind of understand how Carly mind works. The insecurity and uncertainty of how she was when she was with Brian was questioned when he broke up with her, i think all of us went through that from sometime. I remembered comparing myself to a new girlfriend my ex-boyfriend had at one time and finding myself questioning, what she got that I don't have, I obsess about it for days but that's the farthest that I went. And I felt extremely pathetic, so imagine how Carly feels? And the sad part was she knows that it is wrong, it is sad and it is pathetic, yet she couldn't stop. I would really love a psychological explanation. This is my first time reading something abut stalking and it was interesting, creepy and full of emotions.

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