Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Even though I read every word of this book - I can honestly say I am still not sure what happened. So many of the key details are omitted and left to the reader's imagination that I feel part if the story is lost.

The character's change of heart and bullying of his best friend are hard to take.



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Summary from www.amazon.com
Gr 9 Up–Vera Dietz and her troubled neighbor, Charlie, were best friends since childhood until they started to fall for one another junior year and everything broke apart. Evil Jenny Flick decides that she wants Charlie and that Vera is in the way. When Jenny offers Charlie oral sex and he refuses, she broadcasts his secret about his father's domestic abuse to the whole school and blames Vera. In “retaliation,” Charlie reveals the fact that Vera's mother was a stripper before she deserted the family and then starts a perilous relationship with Jenny. In chapters that alternate scenes in the present with “history,” plus various points of view, Vera's story begins at Charlie's funeral where she hides the truth about Jenny's part in his death.