Flashbacks show the relentless cruelty of other students that Butter has endured for years, and the story heads toward a frightening climax as he discovers that his newfound friends are just as cruel in their own way as those who abused him in the past.
Playing his saxophone and spending time as his online alter ego, JP, a tall, athletic hunk who chats for hours online with Anna, provide the only real comforts in his life. His mom still supplies him with high-calorie "comfort" foods his dad still looks at him in disgust, and Anna, the most beautiful girl at school, won't give him a second glance. But even finding the friendship he craves doesn't help ease his internal pain. The overwhelming reaction to his posting astonishes him, and he becomes an instant member of the in crowd. Here he invites his classmates to watch as he consumes his last meal on New Year's Eve, literally eating himself to death. His eating issues stem from multiple sources, but one day when the pressure becomes too much, he opens a website called. Time to go get Butter, her other title.Gr 9 Up-Butter is a smart, funny high school junior who happens to weigh 423 pounds. I adore books that are borderline with issues and tackle them using the incredible power of fiction, and Erin Lange will be an author to watch for me.
As well as that, Seely has two gay men has her partners, and that's portrayed perfectly as well. The mirror between Dane and Billy, I usually think, is one of the hardest things to work with, but Erin has done it perfectly, flawlessly even. was portrayed, especially in his situation as having Down's syndrome, that I have nominated it for the equality celebrations on Guardian Children's Books.īut that's far from all.
So when I said that it was so literal, I also meant this book was fantastic in every sense of the word. However, fangirls of the Erin Lange proportion, John Green is not a terrible author, in fact he's brilliant. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it made it hard to read this book without thinking 'Margo did that.' The interstate manhunt and the clues leading to them, it was like Paper Towns with 100% less Margo.
First off, when Lange was quoted as being like John Green, I didn't expect it to be so literal! Seriously. I do, unfortunately, have a small thing to point in this review. Oh, did I mention? Dane has no Dad, Billy has no Dad and Seely has two. But when Billy wants to hunt for his long lost Dad using riddles used before he left, along with the girl Seely across the street, he's sucked into something he wasn't expecting. The main thing you notice about Billy is that he has Down's syndrome, and when Dane gets in trouble again at school, he's offered a chance to serve his punishment as becoming a monitor for Billy on his walks to and from school. On his street is a boy younger than him, named Billy Drum. Dane Washington is in high school and isn't exactly Mr.
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