Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Kissing Annabel by Steven Herrick


This book is about a high school teenager named Jack, how he deals with life without his mother who died of cancer, and how his sister acts like their mom and watches out for him. This book is also about a journey he takes with his girlfriend Annabel.

Jack has a hard time dealing with the death of his mother who dies of cancer and how he keeps thinking he sees her ghost. Desiree is Jack’s older sister. She helps him understand things about life, sex, and love. Since his mom died, Desiree is like a mother figure to him. That’s how she helps him understand those three subjects. Also, she’s kind of going through the same things herself.

At the beginning of Jack and Annabel's journey they were driving along and the car started to stall. They ran out of gas and became stranded in a place they weren’t really familiar with and had no money for gas. A man name George came along and saw that they needed help. George needed help on his peach orchard so he asked them if they would like to work at the orchard.

I have a question for some of you interested readers. Would you ever think about going on a road trip with your boyfriend/girlfriend when you’re both still in high school? Or have you ever felt like doing something spontaneous? This book might be for you.

I think overall this was an okay book. It wasn’t a challenging read but an easy one. My opinion after I read it was that it actually had some useful insight on relationships and the struggles that come along with it and how love can really make you do crazy things. There are 137 pages in this book. If you like Ellen Hopkins books than you might also like this book because it's written in poetry form.