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Book Review of Chopsticks

Chopsticks
Chopsticks
Author: Jessica Anthony
Genre: Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
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This book can be "read" in under 30 minutes.

Laid out in a graphic style, this story is uniquely told through photographs, newspaper clippings, momentos, and instant message chats. It is an interesting and different way to tell a story, and that's what drew me to this book.

Unfortunately, the story that is being told is terrible.

Two self-indulgent teenagers, one a young piano virtuoso and the other a South American immigrant, meet and fall in love. The story, from start-to-finish, is how they both completely ruin their lives because they "love" each other so much.

Perhaps this is what romance looks like to 16-year-olds, but it's not romance, it's a waste of time and effort. Even if that is only 30 minutes.