Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

I had buy this book because it sounded very juicy when i read a little info of what it was about. i didnt mind the ratings, so i just baught it; a dissappointment to say the least. [sigh]

Brought to you from the author of Go Ask Alice... yeah, right.

This is probably not the first great hoax in publishing history, but I'm sure it's one of the most successful.

In spite of the fact that the actual source of this book has long been revealed and known, the publishing company continues to brazenly assert that this is a genuine document. It's as ridiculous as the continuing insistence that The Amityville Horror is a true story, too.

It should take any literate adult no more than one and one half pages to determine that this is neither the language nor the syntax of an adolescent/young adult.

It is a known fact that this shameless propoganda was the work of Beatrice Sparks, a Mormom activist who created an entire series of these books, in which children are destroyed by the evils of homosexuality, premarital sex, drug abuse, satanism, etc.

Without diminishing what positive impact this book, or any of the others, may have had on impressionable youth, and without condemning its good intentions (is anyone in favor of having AIDS?), these books are complete rubbish.

Like Mr. Frey, the intentions are not the point.

The point is that these books are being published as nonfiction.

And they are lies.

I have read the following diaries by Beatrice Sparks: Go Ask Alice, Annie's Baby, Kim: Empty Inside, It Happened to Nancy, and Jay's Journal. I didn't think this book was going to disappont me like Kim: Empty Inside did.
This is probaly the 2nd worst book of the series that I've read. The character is boring and it doesn't seem there much character development, for her its sort of like an emotional rollercoaster. She scolds herself for being bad and sad that the teacher is gone, then when he comes back shes all cheery, it just doesn't make sense. I wish I could have seen this diary in its full form and not edited. This book seemed to say the same thing over and over, "I met her Johnstone, we had to act like we didn't like each other..." stuff exactley like that everday when she helped him in summer school. I found it boring. At some point while I was reading it felt as if a chore to just get through it. The most suspenseful part only took me about 7 minutes to read. I would not recommend this, I would get Go Ask Alice, It Happened to Nancy, or Annie's Baby.

I think the book was pretty interesting...it was about one of the only books that i didn't want to put down..it really caught my attention..because i mean stuff like this does happen often, when people try to stalk you and say stuff that you aren't...the only thing i didn't really like about the book is that it is not a good book for younger kids...i wouldn't recommend anyone reading it unless they were at least 13.

I didn't really enjoy this book. I couldn't relate to any of it and it was boring. Instead, read Go Ask Alice.