Bokrecension: Stick av Barbara Jacobs

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Author: Barbara Jacobs

This book takes action in England in the middle of the 80’s. The main character, Paula “Stick” Stickles, have no longer got a best friend. Her former best friend Cal is nowadays best friend with the boy-crazy Rachel in their class. But one day a foster kid named Chip steps, or rather jumps, into her life.
Chip drags Paula into a project with an old boat. They fix the boat up and when they’re almost done, the owner of the boat turns up. The owner is not anyone; it’s the best-looking guy in school, Steven.
He decides to help Paula and Chip whit renovating the boat and as the work goes on Paula’s feelings for him starts to grow…

I didn’t think this book was any good until I had read about half of the book. You didn’t get a hold of much in the beginning. It was very much slang in the book and for me, who’s not used to read English-books, it was very hard to get. In the first twenty pages or so, I couldn’t concentrate on something else but all the slang.
The story was sometimes quite hard to get. There were all these people you had to hang on to and I found it very difficult.
When I’d read about half of the book I started to get a grip of the story and by the end I actually started to feel for the people in the book. But I don’t think that it should take that long to get a grip of a book.

I didn’t have much of expectations on this book. I found it in the school’s library after all.
The people in the book are not so good described and usually when I read book a picture pop up in my head of how the people look, but it didn’t when I read this one. The little pieces that I hatched up about the persons I liked, at least the most of it…
I think this story could take place in the real world, but without the Cinderella ending.
The part that I liked the most in the book must be the end if would have to chose a part. It was very romantic and atmosphere full. But I can’t say what happened, because that would ruin the whole book. The rest of the book was really nothing special.
I wouldn’t...