Samantha's Reviews > Lust

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Personal Response: I personally did not like this book as much as I thought I would have. I gave the book, Lust, a three out of five stars because it was not really attention grabbing. I also could not really relate to this book in anyway. I did not find anything that interesting and the drama was not that good.

Plot: The book, Lust, started off with a bunch of really good friends starting their senior of high school. They looked innocent on the outside, but it was completely opposite on the inside. Every senior a part of this group had their own secrets. Throughout the book, those secrets were exposed and added on to. It all started with the most popular girl in school, Harper. Her name was well known around the town, and everyone envied her until Karia showed up. Karia was a party girl who traveled the world with her parents money. After being caught doing drugs, drinking alcohol, and being suspended from school she was sent to live with her dad. Karia was use to the school changing, but this school she had something different in mind. As school was starting, Harper had to show the new girl around the school not knowing what was going to happen. Karia and Harper did not like each other at first contact. It was one big jealously cat fight. Harper was scared that Karia was going to take her spot in the popular group. Karia was scared knowing that Harper was going to be her biggest competition at this school. After showing Karia around a bit, they decided to head to lunch and meet all the friends. Adam and Kane were just jaw dropped by how gorgeous Karia was, but Adam wouldn't look too much due to Beth. The friend group was confused on how they should act by seeing the looks Harper was giving all of them. Everyone decided it was best to friend Karia and make her feel right at home. The group of them were in charge of throwing the big senior party after the dance. Together,Karia let out some of her bad personality show towards Adam. Beth was too careless to notice, because she was falling for the french teacher. Mistakes happened throughout the planning part, but the party was a success for some people. Harper got her feelings crushed, because she liked Adam more than a friends. Karia got dirty with people she didn't even know. Miranda decided to tell the truth how she felt towards Kane. Beth kissed the French teacher and neither of them pulled away. A lot of mistakes happened in this book, but sadly it all ended with one big fish hook. The second book holds the solutions and also creates more problems.

Characterization: One of the main character was Harper. Harper grew up with a rich family; therefore, she got whatever she wanted. She was tall and had brown hair. She had more skin than Karia, but she didn't mind the curvy hips. Her personality was a very rude stuck up kind of attitude. The only person she was actually nice to was Adam, because she had a little crush for him.

Setting: This book took place in a small town just like Weyauwega. The number of people who lived in that town were just above thousand people. The weather was hot and school was just starting. It took place about early September. This book took place in a desert; therefore, temperatures did not change very much. This book took place about the 2000`s with the first smartphones just coming out and everyone was using myspace instead of facebook.

Theme: One of the main themes was the typical high school relationships. Everyone thought that they found the one, and they were going to get married. Beth and Adam were the main couple for this book. They seemed unbreakable but did have the typical drama. This related to me and my boyfriend. Everyone thinks we are going to be high school sweethearts, but no one knows what the future will bring. In the second book, everything changes. People can never know with a high school relationship.

Audience: I recommend this book to ages (16+), because it had a lot of swearing and sexual content within it. This book would take a mature person to read and understand what it is actually happening. With the age limit this book would be more for the high school level. Gender wise I would definitely recommend females. It held so much drama that a typical male wouldn't understand the language.