Rachel Cohn
Very LeFreak is about a girl named Veronica - self nicknamed Very - who was raised by a nomadic mother who passed away before she graduated high school. Now in her freshman year at Columbia, Very is quickly spiraling out of control, and is forced to go to 'technology detox' - no IPhone, computer or MP3 players allowed. Similar to alcohol or drug detox, hopefully Very will be able to shed her layers of technological bull and find her true self.
It's possible - very possible in fact - that this book is much more compelling to younger people than it is to me. However, I don't have cable (I rarely watch TV), I don't own an IPod or MP3 player, and I pretty much stick to calls and texting on my cell phone. And I am one of those people who can go for an entire day (gasp) without my phone and be just fine. While I think that the premise of the story is compelling - especially when I have students asking to use the bathroom pass just so they can text "I luv u" to their gf or bf - I found Very to be...uh...very selfish. She has no regard for those around her, and yet everyone still wants to be her friend. And I hated the ending. Hated hated hated it. I could see it coming from a mile away, hoped that it wouldn't actually happen - thought for a split second "ooh, it's not going to happen" and then whamo-blamo, it happened. Not that I have anything against Very's choice, I just think it was too...predictable? Trendy? Predictably trendy? And I really hated that her name was Very. Where do we go with character names from there? Kinda? Mostly? Extremely?
Anyway, I didn't like this book. Sorry Ms. Cohn. Like I said, it might be because I have very little in common with a person like Very, and if I met someone like her, I'd move away very quickly. Now can you see why I hated that name? Read those last few sentences aloud and it gets very confusing...VERY quickly.
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