Tricks
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Coming of Age
4.2
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Ellen Hopkins
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Ellen Hopkins.When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival. Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching…for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don’t expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words “I love you” are said for all the wrong reasons. Five moving stories remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story—a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. A story about kids figuring out what sex and love are all about, at all costs, while asking themselves, “Can I ever feel okay about myself?” A brilliant achievement from New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins—who has been called “the bestselling living poet in the country” by Mediabistro.com—Tricks is a book that turns you on and repels you at the same time. Just like so much of life.
Young Adult
Lgbtq+
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Author
Ellen Hopkins
Pages
640
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2009-08-25
ISBN
1416996427 9781416996422
Ratings
Google: 5
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"I bought this book because I had read and enjoyed previous books by Ellen Hopkins. What I didn't expect was every single character in this book to enter prostitution. There was a lot of nudity, sex, and vulgar language because of it. I kept reading though because it was interesting and I don't know there's just something special about poetry that Ellen Hopkins writes. It tells a story and everything connects by the end... Oh yeah speaking of which, I really liked the ending. It was probably my favorite part of the book by far.
To be honest though, this book was darker than her other novels, so if you're looking for something not so dark, I'd recommend checking out some of her other books. Don't get me wrong, it's a really good book with a really good story as well as a lesson to it. It just was too much for me, but I'm still glad that I finished it. "