Sonia Pilcer
By: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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Total reviews: 5
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
A great (but campy) teen romance book 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful.
Okay. So I really love this book. I remember reading it in eight grade and not being able to put it down and now almost fifteen years later I still enjoy the book. If you like Judy Blume you'll love Pilcer's Teen Angel!
Great book unless you're a prude 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.
I bought a copy of this about 20 years ago, when I was 13. My mom picked up it, flipped through a few pages, and spotted some of the dirty language and jokes it contains. She dismissed it as a "crotch novel" but allowed me to read it.I re-read this one at least once a year and have done so for the last 20 years. It is so much more than a crotch novel!
Not for the faint of heart: these characters are 14 years old but talk filthy, drink, steal, lie, have sex (or talk about it a lot) and do all of the things most people think young girls shouldn't do (but end up doing at some point anyway). You'll grow to love every one of them, especially Sonny, the book's protagonist. Sonny is smart, funny, awkward, alternately shy and obnoxious and will take you back to that time in your life when you thought your world was going to end because your breasts didn't develop fast enough. Author Pilcer captures it honestly and unsparingly.
Bittersweet! Cynical! Honest!
My copy is so well-thumbed that I no longer loan it to anybody, for fear it will fall apart and I won't get it back. Out of print but well worth tracking down a copy! And not just for teens, either.