SuitabookThat certain feeling
Sheri Cobb South
- Reading
- Read together in short stretches and pause when Penny’s reasons shift. Invite your reader to consider how her choices affect trust, without assuming the story’s ending or judgement.
- Themes
- Peer pressure and trust: Penny agrees to steal a rival school’s playbook for an initiation, targeting her friend Woody. Penny feels guilty but tries to regard the act as harmless, placing her reasoning alongside the risk to a friendship.
- Romantic conflict: Penny hopes to impress Brandon, then realises she is falling in love with Woody, the friend she has agreed to betray. The romantic change complicates Penny’s decision, connecting her feelings with questions of honesty and loyalty.
- Worth knowing
- Penny plans a dishonest act against a friend and initially persuades herself it is harmless. This may be worth noting if peer pressure or breaches of trust are sensitive topics for your reader.