Review: Goth Girl Rising by Barry Lyga

A Few of the Many Sins of Fanboy

1. He Kissed Dina Jurgens.

2. I was in the hospital for six effing months and how many e-mails or phone calls or letters or IMs or texts did I get from him? None, none, none, none, and none.

3. He's got this great graphic novel, but he's publishing it in Literary Paws.

4. He told me I'm a suicide wannabe.

5. He wanted to kiss me.

6. He didn't kiss me.

7. He never told me his third thing.

FOR ALL OF THOSE SINS, HE DESERVES PAIN.

Kyra Sellers doesn't get angry--she gets even. After six months in the hospital, where she was DCHH, she has some matters to settle with the traitorous Fanboy. Plus, Roger is being his typical pain-in-the-ass self, the Spermling is breathing down her neck, and that hypocritical Miss Powell deserves to be exposed for what she really is.

So maybe she does get a little angry...

At first, I REALLY didn't like this book. Kyra is the typical goth girl, and she overuses the words "like" and "totally" almost every  time she speaks.  Now, I'm not trying to say how all goths should be, or how goths are, but I feel that if she didn't overuse those words, she would have seemed more goth to me. I felt like I was reading about some blonde popular girl. (no offense blondes, but most popular girls are portrayed as being blonde). She doesn't type text talk, while everyone else does it, so why would she talk improperly like everyone else?

Fortunatly, I was able to get passed that. I think Kyra is a likeable character. I could really connect with her because I went through a goth stage too. My favorite thing about her was that she realized that even being goth was being part of a trend. She wanted individuality, and when she realized that wearing all black didn't make her unique, and she didn't feel like herself while wearing it, she changed her appearance to reflect her. I found what she did to be very brave, because she knew she would be given tons of attention, which she didn't want. There were some parts that I felt that she was just being pissed off about something just for the sake of being pissed off, but overall, I liked this book and I would recomend it.