Tally
Jenkins is a 15 year old whose life is just perfect. She’s popular, has lots of
friends and a boyfriends and she has a family everyone dreams about. Only this
time you have to take the word dream literally. It turns out Tally’s perfect
life was only a dream she made up while she was in a drugs coma. Tally’s real
life is nothing like she thought it was: she isn’t popular, she doesn’t have a
boyfriend and her parents are not longer the same cool and nice people she
dreamt about. Tally tries to adjust to this new life, but she won’t rest until
she found out what happened exactly. Together with her friend Lisa she tries to
make it all clear.
The reason
why I like the book so much is because the themes used are so recognisable. Who
isn’t familiar with the gap between the popular group and the unpopular people
at school? Who doesn’t want to belong to the cool group? What teenager never
has a fight with his/her parents? And doesn’t everyone like to be believed and
have a friend you can trust?
JP describes
it all in ‘Blackout’. She puts both emotional and happy touches in the book, as
well as funny notes. The sarcasm and irony are genius and make you laugh each
time again. There’s an excellent build up of the tension,
followed by a surprising ending. The clues of the solution are given away step
by step in the story, that way you can try to find an answer to all Tally’s
questions, and maybe you find out what’s happened sooner then Tally.
Blackout is
a book filled with emotions. It’s about friendship, trust and hate. Mix that
with some good tension and you have a book you don’t want to put down once
you’ve started reading.
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