![]() ![]() ![]() Her primary aspiration, however, is to maintain her status on the cheer squad, chiefly as the “lieutenant” of the captain, Beth, who is the chief bad girl and doer of drugs, men, and deeds that Addy might want to do but can’t bring herself to. It’s unfair to summarize a novel like this- Lord of the Ring could be reduced to, “Midget chucks ring into mountain local vagrant crowned king”-but it’s also useful, because interesting novels usually have characters who are trying to learn something about the world and who have larger ambitions to do things that will have more than just local effects.Īddy narrates the novel in an insistent present-tense voice that offers a sense of immediacy. ![]() There’s something compelling about Dare Me that shouldn’t be compelling: stripped of its narrative voice, Dare Me is about teenage cheerleaders and their coach, who may as well be a teenager, competing to be the neighborhood’s queen bee. ![]()
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