Letters from the inside , John Marsden, © Editions L'Ecole des Loisirs, collection Materials, 1998, 182 p.
Meet me at the center of the Teen Media Grand Troyes rating RA March
From 15 years.
The novel begins with a routine correspondence between two girls the same age (15 years). Tracey, whose life seems perfect, needs to escape and places an advertisement in a magazine to find someone to talk to. Mandy replied and soon realizes that her new friend is hiding something. An exchange of increasingly frequent and intense moved them. Secrets, lies and dark secrets are revealed in turn with coarse language and sarcastic.
This book is a square of violence with a patch of blue sky. It reads easily, but it is true that the language used sometimes embarrassed me. Initially, the two teenage girls tell their life stories, musical tastes, clothing, how are their boyfriends ... Then come the lies and from that moment reading comes together quickly: we want answers!
The author happens to mark a real thriller and it does so through an exchange of letters is even more interesting as the plot goes as and when the letters arrive.
The end of the novel is like a cut, implied. Here, violence of the novel is already such a hardness, that the end could not be explicit.
Although this book is recommended by the publisher for 12 to 16 years, it seems difficult to access for younger children. I advise instead to older adolescents.
Delphine.
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