SuitabookFerocity summer
Alissa Grosso
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside your teenager and pausing around the addiction and accident material. Let them decide which questions to explore, including how the characters respond to consequences.
- Themes
- Choices and consequences: After killing a woman in a drunken speedboat accident, Scilla faces a trial and is offered a possible way to avoid conviction. Notice how Scilla thinks about responsibility and whether her actions affect other people.
- Addiction and loyalty: Scilla’s best friend is described as addicted to drugs, while the FBI asks Scilla to help locate a drug supplier. Consider what support, if any, Scilla can offer her friend while deciding whether to help the investigation.
- Identity and relationships: The book addresses identity and relationships; the detail of how it is developed remains unclear. Notice how Scilla’s uncertainty or self-understanding relates to the relationships around her.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes addiction involving pills and alcohol, a fatal accident during a drunken speedboat ride, drug dealing, legal trouble and an attempted robbery. The detailed treatment of these issues is unclear.