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    The Queen of Everything
    The Queen of Everything
    The Queen of Everything
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    The Queen of Everything

    By Deb Caletti

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    Jordan MacKenzie had a typical teenage life until her father’s affair with a married woman threatens to implode her entire world in this searing and poignant novel from Printz Honor medal winner and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti.

    People ask me all the time what having Vince MacKenzie for a father was like. What they mean is, was he always crazy?

    High school junior Jordan MacKenzie’s life was pretty typical: fractured family, new boyfriend, dead-end job. She’d been living with her father, the predictable optometrist, since her mother, the hippie holdover, had become too embarrassing to be around. Jordan felt that she finally had as normal a life as she could. Then came Gayle D’Angelo.

    Jordan knew her father was dating Gayle and that Gayle was married. Jordan knew it was wrong and that her father was becoming someone she didn’t recognize anymore, but what could she do about it? And how could she—how could anyone—have possibly guessed that this illicit love affair would implode in such a violent and disturbing way?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtheneum Books for Young Readers
    Release dateMay 11, 2010
    ISBN9780743443845
    The Queen of Everything
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    Deb Caletti

    Deb Caletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of over sixteen books for adults and young adults, including Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, a finalist for the National Book Award; A Heart in a Body in the World, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Girl, Unframed; and One Great Lie. Her books have also won the Josette Frank Award for Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, and numerous other state awards and honors, and she was a finalist for the PEN USA Award. She lives with her family in Seattle.

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    • 5/5
      This story was very interesting, although not extremely believable. I thought it was well written and a good read.
    • 5/5
      It's about Jordan, an average teenager with divorced parents. She lives with her father, a predictable optometrist because her mother is too eccentric for her tastes. Her summer after her junior year was off to a normal start- a best friend, dumb job, and a new love interest- but then came Gayle D'Angelo. Gayle D'Angelo is her father's new girlfriend.....who happens to be married. But Jordan's father no longer listens to reason as he becomes more and more obsessed with Gayle. Jordan's normal summer ends up having an explosive ending. I loved the writing. Seriously, it was great. Deb Caletti's writing is so detailed and intricate, she brings tiny details to mind that only contribute to overall story and character development. The plot was slowish, but you know from page one that something horribly violent will happen. First off, because the narrator tell you, and also because its terribly hinted at and you would have to be stupid not to get it. Still, there was something tense about this book. While it wasn't thrilling, it was gripping. I think the best part of the book was easily the writing. The main characters, especially Jordan, were well-drawn. It was like they were real people. The minor characters also had the same flair, but had less screen time. The thing about such interesting characters, is that you actually want to see them. But in the story, they just popped in and out, quick as a flash. Like Big Mama. I wanted to see more of her. And Jackson. I would have loved to see that budding romance. Jordan was a real teenager. She wasn't some saint girl. She wasn't a rebel without a cause. She took notice of the world, and messed up a lot, and was likable. One of her mistakes was Kale. I hated Kale. He is the King of Douches. I wanted to crawl into the book and pop him one. I just didn't understand why Jordan still kept going out with him even though she clearly couldn't tolerate him. It just made me frustrated. I guess that makes the mark of a real character, though. Overall, I really liked this book. Everytime I read a Deb Caletti book, they just keep getting better and better.
    • 4/5
      17 year old Jordan, the only child of divorced parents, watches her father descend into an obsessive affair with a married woman which ends tragically. She finds herself somewhat obsessed as well with an unpredictable, malfesant, school mate. This unhappy teen novel reflects real life humaness and weaknesses of young adult and adult relationships.
    • 3/5
      I love her later stuff, and my "official review" for this is fairly easy to find but it just isn't my favorite
    • 5/5
      This is a phenomenal story of how life happens. It is insightfully written and the characters are very real. Jordan is an intelligent and emotional teenager who is in advanced high school classes. She lives on Parrish Island and her parents have been separated since she was very little. Her mom is a hippy soul who transformed their old house into a bed and breakfast inn. She has a baby boy Max with a husband ten years her junior who is a sculpture artist. Because living with her mom becomes too chaotic and overcrowded for Jordan, she moves to dad’s place. Dad was just a regular guy who loved the history of renaissance art and worked as an optometrist. Jordan always thought that she is more like her father. Her grandparents often came over on weekends to enjoy dinner and the evening together. Everything was normal until Jordan met Mrs. D’Angelo at her part time job, the “True You Health” Centre. She remarked on Mrs. D’Angelo’s strong presence and femininity, the same characteristics which tempt Jordan’s father and steal him into a whirlwind romance. Seeing her father totally changed through a relationship with someone who is married, Jordan tries to warn him, sensing that something bad is going to happen. While she tries her best with family matters, Jordan has typical teenage troubles; having her first sexual experience with the wrong boyfriend and falling for her best girlfriend’s brother who happens to always be at the right place at the right time to help her out. This is definitely my favorite book so far.

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