After her fall, a lot of her peers thought she got what was coming to her. Chelsea would fit right in with the popular crowd from the movie Mean Girls, living it up at the top of the social pyramid with her friends and trash-talking everyone around her. This is a complete 180 from the beginning, when Chelsea is a supremely unlikable character. SPEECHLESS also pushes boundaries, and I found it the best book revolving around school torment this year.īy the end of SPEECHLESS, readers truly care about Chelsea and her life. PUSHING THE LIMITS by Katie McGarry dealt with hard issues, and I gushed all over it in my review earlier this year.
This year, I've been pleasantly surprised with just how deep and raw and real the imprint is, steering far away from its roots. Harlequin Publishing has long been associated with frou-frou romance titles, and when I first noticed their Teen imprint, I expected more of the same. Author Hannah Harrington focuses on the devastating consequences of a popular girl's fall from grace, as well as extreme bullying techniques due to the fact that she got two popular athletes into trouble with the law. SPEECHLESS felt rougher, grittier, and more compelling to me, especially since the reason that main character Chelsea Knot is in her predicament to begin with is because of a secret blurted at an inopportune time. Earlier this year, I reviewed two other books revolving around bullying getting a lot of acclaim: KEEP HOLDING ON by Susane Colasanti and THE LIST by Siobhan Vivian.
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