Girl, Unframed
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Thrillers & Suspense / General
3.5
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Deb Caletti
A teen girl’s summer with her mother turns sinister in this gripping thriller about the insidious dangers of unwanted attention, from Printz Honor medal–winning and National Book Award finalist author Deb Caletti—perfect for fans of Courtney Summers’s Sadie.Sydney Reilly has a bad feeling about going home to San Francisco before she even gets on the plane. How could she not? Her mother is Lila Shore—the Lila Shore—a film star who prizes her beauty and male attention above all else…certainly above her daughter. But Sydney’s worries multiply when she discovers that Lila is involved with the dangerous Jake, an art dealer with shady connections. Jake loves all beautiful objects, and Sydney can feel his eyes on her whenever he’s around. And he’s not the only one. Sydney is starting to attract attention—good and bad—wherever she goes: from sweet, handsome Nicco Ricci, from the unsettling construction worker next door, and even from Lila. Behaviors that once seemed like misunderstandings begin to feel like threats as the summer grows longer and hotter. It’s unnerving, how beauty is complicated, and objects have histories, and you can be looked at without ever being seen. But real danger, crimes of passion, the kind of stuff where someone gets killed—it only mostly happens in the movies, Sydney is sure. Until the night something life-changing happens on the stairs that lead to the beach. A thrilling night that goes suddenly very wrong. When loyalties are called into question. And when Sydney learns a terrible truth: beautiful objects can break.
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Author
Deb Caletti
Pages
368
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2020-06-23
ISBN
1534426973 9781534426979
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"This one might have been a marketed as a thriller, but it included some really important themes that made it so much more. Like the way women (girls, even) are over-sexualized and frequently treated as nothing more than objects, as well as the double standard that exists between men and women: Ladies Man vs. *****. ****. Easy. Nevermind the ****** up relationship Lila has with her daughter. This novel was light on the thriller aspect and a lot heavier on the darker themes that come with being a woman in a man’s world, and I thought it was pieced together perfectly."
"May be my new favorite book. So much emotion between covers. Perfect from the outside broken one the inside kind of family, and so so so beautifully written. I wish I could read again for the first time. lots of beautiful quotes 10/10 "
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Chloe Gladish
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