This is a worthwhile read and I appreciate that Alex Flinn goes into the nitty-gritty and truly tackles emotional issues instead of just glossing over them like a lot of YA novelists do. It's told through Caitlin's eyes, which is really quite interesting. This picks up right where that book ended, just as Caitlin starts at her new performing arts high school in Miami. This isn't as good as Breathing Underwater, which is the companion novel that tells the "before" part of the story, where Nick actually abuses Caitlin. Right now, I live half a mile away from my old middle school, in Palmetto Bay, a suburb of Miami, with my husband, daughters, dogs, and cats. It’s a way of going back to being thirteen. So I try to write books that gymsuit girl might enjoy. I’m continually amazed at the idea that I have a checking account and a mortgage.
In my mind, I am still 13-years-old, running laps on the athletic field, wearing this really baggy white gymsuit.
I think I write for young-adults because I never quite got over being one. I'm happy that the book is so popular, and if you are reading this bio because the book was assigned for school, I'm happy about that too. I thought this was a really important topic, as 27 percent of teenage girls surveyed have been hit by a boyfriend. I based the book on my experiences interning with the State Attorney's Office and volunteering with battered women. Breathing Underwater deals with the serious and all-too-common problem of dating violence. It was law school that probably helped with my first novel. I studied opera in college (I'm a coloratura - the really loud, high-pitched sopranos.) and then went to law school. By high school, I'd made some friends and gotten involved in various "gifted and talented" performing arts programs. I had a really hard time making friends, so I spent a lot of time reading and writing then. My family moved to Miami when I was in middle school. Zeiser, told my mother, "Alexandra marches to her own drummer." I don't think that was supposed to be a compliment. When the other kids were on Book 20, I was on Book 1! My teacher, Mrs.
But I compensated for this early proficiency by absolutely refusing to read the programmed readers required by the school system - workbooks where you read the story, then answered the questions. And when I was eight, I got my first rejection letter from Highlights Magazine. When I was five, my mom said I should be an author. This probably influenced my interest in witches. I grew up on a street called Salem Court. Love Jacaranda is out in the world! Hope you'll check out this fun wish-fulfillment romance!
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