Girl, Unframed
Written by Deb Caletti
Narrated by Alex Allwine
4/5
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About this audiobook
“A riveting, meticulously plotted mystery with plenty of drama.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A teen girl’s summer with her famous mother turns sinister in this gripping thriller inspired by a real-life Hollywood murder from Printz Honor–winning and National Book Award finalist author Deb Caletti—perfect for fans of Courtney Summers’s Sadie.
Sydney Reilly has a bad feeling about going home to San Francisco before she even gets on the plane. How could she not? Her mother is Lila Shore—the Lila Shore—a film star who prizes her beauty and male attention above all else…certainly above her daughter.
But Sydney’s worries multiply when she discovers that Lila is involved with the dangerous Jake, an art dealer with shady connections. Jake loves all beautiful objects, and Sydney can feel his eyes on her whenever he’s around. And he’s not the only one. Sydney is starting to attract attention—good and bad—wherever she goes: from sweet, handsome Nicco Ricci, from the unsettling construction worker next door, and even from Lila. Behaviors that once seemed like misunderstandings begin to feel like threats as the summer grows longer and hotter.
But real danger, crimes of passion, the kind of stuff where someone gets killed—it only mostly happens in the movies, Sydney is sure. Until the night something life-changing happens on the stairs that lead to the beach. A thrilling night that goes suddenly very wrong. When loyalties are called into question. And when Sydney learns a terrible truth: beautiful objects can break.
Deb Caletti
Deb Caletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of over sixteen books for adults and young adults, including Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, a finalist for the National Book Award; A Heart in a Body in the World, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Girl, Unframed; and One Great Lie. Her books have also won the Josette Frank Award for Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, and numerous other state awards and honors, and she was a finalist for the PEN USA Award. She lives with her family in Seattle.
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Reviews for Girl, Unframed
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The narrator was very good.
Deb Caletti is a very good writer and she puts you right into the headspace of a 16 year old girl. This book is primarily a coming of age story that focuses on young adult sexuality and conflicts related to being a young girl in a "man's world" while the writing and the message were good, literally nothing happened during the first 260 pages of the book, then the "action" was anticlimactic with an unsatisfying ending. I read over 300 pages for..... this? I do think it would be a good read for 14-17 year olds but I don't see it really having broad appeal beyond a young teen audience.