New Adult
Title: Watch Me Disappear
Author: Diane Vanaskie Mulligan
Date Published: 8/2012
Lizzie Richards isn’t excited to be starting over at a new school
for her senior year, but she’s trying to take her mother’s advice and
make the most of it—the only way she can: By disobeying her strict
parents’ rules. Lizzie’s father has moved the family around every few
years to advance his career, so she has never had a chance to develop
the kind of “BFF” relationships she thinks most kids have. She’s bracing
herself for another lonely year at her third high school when her
neighbor Maura gets sick of watching her little brother when she could
be partying. Thanks to Maura’s plotting, Lizzie becomes everyone’s new
favorite babysitter. Seeing her opportunity, Lizzie decides to break her
mother’s rules by using Maura’s computer to create a secret Email
address and Facebook account. She is quickly friended by Missy, a fellow
transfer student as eager for a friend as she is. Things are looking up
for Lizzie until Maura’s ex-boyfriend Paul sets his eye on Missy.
Caught between her new best friend and the neighbor whose friendship
promises instant popularity, Lizzie doesn’t know what to do—because
she’s fallen for Paul, too.
**My thoughts**
I really liked this book. I felt sorry for Lizzie. Her parents are way overly strict, not allowing her the chance to do much to be a normal teenager. They make it difficult for her to make any friends or to fit in at her new school. The one person they deem appropriate for her to hang out with is the last person with whom she should be friends. It's no wonder she finally begins to rebel a little bit.
Lizzie has a hard time sorting out her real feelings about her relationships with her new friends. It is no wonder, because you just don't know whom you can trust. Teenager relationships can really suck and are extremely complicated. She gets burned a few times, even if people didn't mean to do it. These situations are very realistic, and the teens' responses to the happenings in their lives ring true. The book is well written, especially for a debut novel.
**My thoughts**
I really liked this book. I felt sorry for Lizzie. Her parents are way overly strict, not allowing her the chance to do much to be a normal teenager. They make it difficult for her to make any friends or to fit in at her new school. The one person they deem appropriate for her to hang out with is the last person with whom she should be friends. It's no wonder she finally begins to rebel a little bit.
Lizzie has a hard time sorting out her real feelings about her relationships with her new friends. It is no wonder, because you just don't know whom you can trust. Teenager relationships can really suck and are extremely complicated. She gets burned a few times, even if people didn't mean to do it. These situations are very realistic, and the teens' responses to the happenings in their lives ring true. The book is well written, especially for a debut novel.
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Author Bio:
Diane Vanaskie Mulligan
began writing Watch Me Disappear during an after-school writing club she
moderates for high school students. This is her first novel. She holds a BA in
American Studies from Mount Holyoke College
and a Master’s degree in teaching from Simmons College.
When she isn’t teaching or writing, she’s the managing editor at The
Worcester Review and the director of The Betty Curtis Worcester County
Young Writers’ Conference You can also find her occasionally strumming her
guitar and singing at various bars in central Massachusetts, where she lives
with her husband.
Website: www.dvmulligan.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/DianeVMull
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DianeVMulligan
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/dmvanask
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