{"id":2770,"date":"2006-11-08T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:51","slug":"it-all-went-by-too-fas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2770","title":{"rendered":"It All Went By Too Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

This book is a 2006 Cybil Award<\/a> Nominee for YA Fiction.<\/em><\/p>\n

Angel Hansen makes only one mistake — but it’s the one that changes everything. Every girl knows never to drink and go off by herself with a guy, but she’s just too drunk to really process it all, and sure enough, Angel gets pregnant. Her choice to have her baby is a life-altering, gut wrenching stand-alone decision, the bravest and possibly the scariest<\/em> thing that Angel has ever done. By why is her best friend pulling away from her now? <\/em>And most confusing (and least explored) of all is why is Danny Stanton, the boy who could only ever make up his mind to hang out\/make out with her when he was drunk,<\/em> why is he sticking close, now that Angel is visibly pregnant?<\/p>\n

This was a difficult book to enjoy. I found the language and dialogue reasonably believable, and the descriptions and sense of place well-crafted, but I was unable to fully enter into the world of the characters, as some of their actions and reactions to things seemed highly<\/em> unlikely. This book appears very much to be a novel aimed at educating<\/u> young adult women on what not <\/em>to do with boys and pregnancy, and readers may likely come away feeling that they have been instructed instead of entertained. There are myriad problem novels on the “issue” of teen pregnancy; Angel’s Choice<\/a> presents a character going through many of the same challenges we have seen before, with a dubiously sparkly Cinderella prom-type ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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