Goth Girl Rising review by HB_JMajor
Goth Girl Rising
by Barry Lyga
Age Range - 12 and up
Genre - Fiction

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Age at time of review - 10
Reviewer's Location - Baltimore, MD, United States
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While Kyra Sellers spends six months in the Maryland Mental Health Unit after trying to kill herself, she never gets one email or phone call from the person she wanted to talk to the most: Fanboy. When she gets home, she is angry that Fanboy never tried to contact her and wants revenge. When she goes to school again, she sees that the secret comic her and Fanboy had made has been published. Once she sees Fanboy again, she barely recognizes him. He has changed everything about himself. Kyra thinks of many different ways to get back at Fanboy for all of the pain he caused her while she was away. While trying to get revenge, many things happen that she doesn't understand. By the end, Kyra realizes that she has to deal with life, and everything makes sense again.

Opinion: 

I liked the book Goth Girl Rising because I could picture everything that was happening. I could see what Kyra was going through in the book. Goth Girl Rising made me realize how different some teens' lives are. The problems that Kyra had to face would have been hard for me too. I found this book interesting and exciting because I never knew what would happen next. From reading this book, I learned that everyone has to go through something rough in their life. The way you handle your problems though is what changes things.

 

Rating:
4
Content Rating:

Content rating - mature content

Explain your content rating: 

Goth Girl Rising talks about drugs, sex, and lesbians. It talks about Kyra cutting her wrists and wanting to commit suicide.
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