Shattering Glass by Gail Giles
Simon Glass is a geek. He’s fat, clumsy, socially awkward and he has no friends. *gobbles down massive helping of unadulterated stereotype* So, Thaddeus (nicknamed “Young” by his friends) is quite surprised when the leader of his clique (oh wait… they’re jocks… I suppose “clique” doesn’t apply… *shrug* whatever) stands up for Simon against the school bully. And then, to take that a step further, Clique-Leader Rob decides that he’s going to turn Simon into the “Class Favorite”. Complete with makeover. But Simon starts to rebel against Rob’s plans and things get ugly.
When I first read the comment on the back of the book:
“Simon Glass was easy to hate….I guess, really we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn’t realize it until the day we killed him.”
I thought that by “we killed him” the author was being metaphorical and meant that they killed his sense of individuality by making him conform to the social standard or something, not giving away the ending before you even open the book. Yes, they beat him to death with a baseball bat. I’m sorry, but seeing as the events in this book are incredibly far-fetched as it is (not to mention cliched… though normally it’s the popular girls giving makeovers) I must award this book one EPIC-FAIL. Oh, I was certainly surprised by the ending, but only because I overestimated the author.
Hunting for something decent to read,
Medeia Senka
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I think that they should make shattering glass into a movie it would be great movie about the boys making simon glass into a class favorite so if I was a director I would make that book into a awesome movie and it would get a golden globe.