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The setting in the book “Backflash” is present day and takes place in a town called Lake Hills. This town is medium sized, hilly, and everyone that lives there is super close.
The main character is Lara. She had a hard time growing up overweight and depressed. Lara does not have a lot of confidence and tends to doubt herself a lot. The next main character that has an important role in Lara’s Life is her sister, Sydney. She is a protagonist because she helped support her sister even when times aren’t fair. Sydney is also brave, she is friends with Liam even though he is Bree’s brother. The next character is Bree, she is the reason why Lara tried to kill herself. Bree is the antagonist of the story, because she posted terrible things about …show more content…

The first strength was building up the characters to where it felt like you knew them. “I suddenly understand what made Lara do it.” (Littman 46) Another great strength of hers was sequencing and it was every easy to understand. When if pasts time, she makes sure to have a page saying that which is very helpful to the reader. I only felt like there was one weakness which would have to be interest and having to do with building up the character. Sometimes I felt like the chapter was either super long or unneeded information and was pointless. One section just talks about her breakfast which didn’t help anything in the story. “Liam is eating a bowl of cereal. I get a bowl for my cereal...” (Littman 301) But, overall I think the book was great, I just don’t have a long attention span.
Overall I think this book is great! The vocabulary is very understandable for every teenager. The story seems so real and has a lot of relatable subjects that present day teenagers can understand. “Wonder if I should Instagram it? #Call911.” (Littman 47) The format of the book is understandable even though it does skip time, and also goes back in time. It is helpful though because on pages it says the date like “Part Two- Two months earlier.” (Littman 93) Overall, the book held my interest well and was a fast read whenever I got the time to sit

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