Love, Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli
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Author: Jerry SpinelliEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-14
ISBN: 0375813756
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Book Review: A Great Disappointment
Summary: 2 Stars
Well, I am sad to report that "Love, Stargirl" is a great disappointment. What makes it especially distressing is that it diminishes Stargirl the character. I may be overreacting here, but that which is so special about "Stargirl"--the profound nature of the book, the depth of the message, the extraordinary girl that Stargirl is, disappears in this sequel. Stargirl is ordinary and even at times less than ordinary. She becomes your typical teenage girl--even though she claims to Perry (her new and brief "love" interest) that she is "not your typical girl." She does feel extremely typical to me.
When I began to read this book, I was annoyed and agitated. Where was the insightful story I had come to expect from Spinelli? Where was the girl who was so enchanting and mesmerizing? Gone.
In this sequel Spinelli is Stargirl and he does a terrible job with the female persona. She borders on trite at times. Stargirl is insecure, concerned about how others react to her, second-guessing herself, gushing about Leo and attracted to a new boy (who is the "bad boy" that supposedly so many girls -in real life--are attracted to). He also gives us access to the "Stargirl" story that unexpectedly minimizes the first book. For example, we learn more about what Archie said to Stargirl when Leo broke up with her and it makes Archie less wise in my eyes. I found myself revering him less. I forced myself to finish the book and it did get better toward the end; however, not enough to save it. Much of it is tedious and had I not wanted it to redeem itself somehow, somewhere, I would have stopped reading.
Sadly for it me it feels like Spinelli sold out here. He had such a phenomenal success with "Stargirl" that he pushed himself to create this sequel. There is nothing inspiring about it.
Having said all that, it would still work as your average young adult novel that is about "love." Students may not be as disappointed as I was, but those who were so moved by the first book, may be.
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