“It took courage to keep on living after everything that’s happened to you,” Evie tells Diane.
Though Evie and Diane come from different worlds, they are both fighters in their own ways. author to watch, and with “Bad Girls,” she has constructed another complex, engrossing tale for teenagers about the strength of young women. With her roaring, feminist book “Moxie,” about a teenager confronting sexism in her high school, Mathieu cemented her place as a Y.A. But Diane is hiding more than a few secrets. Suddenly, Evie, a bad girl, and Diane, a tea sipper, are tied to each other if they want to survive. Which means there’s a clue at the crime scene. But once they’ve gotten away, Diane realizes that she left behind the knife she used to kill Preston. She introduces herself as Diane, and she and Evie flee the scene. Next to him is a girl in pink, a tea sipper, who is covered in blood. Evie blacks out in the ensuing struggle, and when she wakes up Preston is on the ground dead. Watching Ari mentally and emotionally explore the new terrains of love and young adulthood is sure to be a treat for readers of all ages.Įvie, the protagonist, is from the wrong side of town she and her friends are “the sort of girls mothers warn their daughters about.” One night, while out at a local drive-in, she’s almost assaulted by Preston, one of the rich kids in town (“tea sippers,” Evie and her friends call them). But the real star of the book is Ari’s mind. And though the book is more than 500 pages, the chapters are short, sometimes only one paragraph long, so the story moves quickly. Sáenz’s prose is poetic, tender and philosophical, giving even the ordinary circumstances Ari faces a kind, enchanting glow. On top of this confusion, Ari is grappling with the pressure of being gay in a world that may not accept him and trying to stand tall when all around him is news of gay death as a result of the AIDS crisis.ĭespite the heaviness of the subject matter, “Waters of the World” is an endlessly charming novel. “I live in a confusion called love,” Ari writes in his journal (which is formatted as love letters to Dante). He is sure of his feelings for Dante, but he doesn’t know how romance fits within his world. The truth, Ari finds out, is that love is hard. Even in the groggy moments of post-slumber, they are smitten. Ari and Dante wake up in the back of Ari’s pickup truck, having accidentally fallen asleep while hanging out the night before. This second book opens in the dawn of a new day - literally.
Over the course of that book, Ari slowly realized that his new friend, Dante Quintana, was in love with him and that he was in love with Dante in return. In “Secrets,” readers met Aristotle Mendoza, a Mexican American teenager living in El Paso in the ’80s.
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