The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was a really good book. So very well written, I read it in a day.
The story is told from the viewpoints of four different high school students and what they know about Alice. Alice was labeled a slut. Brandon, star football player and most popular guy in school said he slept with her an so did another guy at the same party on the same night in the same hour. After he told everyone that, he died in a car accident and it just became easy to blame Alice for every other thing that happened at school that year.
Although the really popular girl, Elaine, knew she had it in her power to stop it, she didn’t try and do that until the end of the book. Kelcie, who had been a friendless nerd in her previous school, wasn’t about to lose her status at this school and, in fact, increased her status by telling everyone that Alice had had an abortion. Josh, the one who was in the car with Brandon when he crashed, is the only one who knows exactly what happened that night and he’s not telling. And, finally, Kurt the ridiculously intelligent nerd who no one is friends with but lived next door to Brandon and knows the truth about Alice.
This is a wonderfully well written book that describes the character’s true feelings without being shy about it. I highly recommend The Truth About Alice. 🙂