Sugar Rush
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Written by Julie Burchill.
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"Oh, I,m not your friend." My savior looked surprised. "It's just that this is MY school. I'm Maria Sweet -- Sugar. If you get bullied, it'll be when I say so."
When Kim has to transfer from her posh school to Ravendene Comprehensive, the notoriously violent local school, she's scared -- but then she meets Maria Sweet, better known as Sugar. Sugar is beautiful and wild, the queen bee of Ravendene, and Kim falls under her spell.
They're gorgeous party girls, envied and admired by everyone. But as Kim leaves her good-girl past far behind, she realizes she's falling in love -- with her best friend.
Funny, sexy, and provocative, this is a compulsively readable first novel for young adults by Britain's most famous and controversial journalist.
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I am "L" thinks this book is Excellent.
So I just finished Sugar Rush. And I must say, I liked it a lot. The writing was a bit difficult to get used to at first. Go to any of the popular online journals (90% of which are written by honest-to-god teenagers) and that is how the book is written. Sure, it is sometimes confusing, overly dramatic, and full of slang that makes me want to go wtf? But that's part of what makes it convincing.
The kids in the story drink, smoke, do various party drugs, stay out late, have teenage crises, and generally do just what teenagers do. It doesn't trip lightly over these subjects nor does it try to drive home a "message". It just takes us into the realm of our high school heroine and let's her tell her story.
Kim is discovering that she is gay, but that doesn't even really become the number one concern in her life. Well, it does, but not in the way that most teens-learning-they-are-gay books do. Most of the time, teen books can only deal with one thing, let's say the gay thing, without getting too muddled. But in this case, gay is just one hurdle for our fifteen year old. There is also general girl-teenness to deal with... which is often a book topic on its own, an absent parent, discovery of drugs and alcohol as coping mechanisms, lack of enthusiasm for school when it used to be the big priority, and all sorts of other teenage stuff that makes you happy that you're not a teenager anymore. Yet there is plenty that could make you yearn for those days as well. Sure, there was heartache... but you were also young, fit, and (you thought) indestructible.