Conway, Celeste
When You Open Your Eyes Simon Pulse, 2012. $16.99. 308
pages. Content: Language: R (36 swears; 15 Gods; 2
“F”); Sexual Content: R; Violence:
PG-13.
Tessa has recently
moved to Buenos Aires from her Virginia home. She misses her old high school friends and boyfriend, but
quickly gets lost in her new Argentinian lifestyle when she meets the handsome
and troubled Lucien. Her father
works for the FBI and hasn’t been a part of their lives for the last two years,
but now that he has his family in the field with him he tries to control their
actions. The more he tries to
control Tessa the harder she falls into Lucien’s life. Lucien has manic depression and
expresses himself through guerilla art; however, when that guerilla art turns
into what is perceived as a terrorist act Lucien and Tessa find themselves
pulled in two directions. Tessa
also finds that her FBI father isn’t the upstanding person he has let his
family believe in. I thought this
book was depressing and the main character didn’t show any growth. Tessa frustrated me because she kept
doing things she knew she shouldn’t –including drug use. The sexual content was adult level and
this shouldn’t be a young adult novel.
HS-OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C.
Peterson.
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