{"id":135,"date":"2010-05-23T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T11:15:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:57:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T22:57:50","slug":"rage_a_love_story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/rage_a_love_story\/","title":{"rendered":"Rage: A Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/245536462\">Peters, Julie Anne. <em>Rage: A Love Story.<\/em> New York: Knopf, 2009. hardcover. 304p. $16.99. ISBN: 9780375852091.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0pt none initial;\" title=\"Rage: A Love Story\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/images\/dyn\/cover\/?source=9780375952098&amp;height=300&amp;maxwidth=170\" alt=\"Rage: A Love Story\" width=\"170\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Johanna has been nursing a wild crush on Reeve, whom she scarcely knows. She grasps at the opportunity to make a place in Reeve&#8217;s life for herself, even as Reeve pushes her away, and as both Johanna&#8217;s friends and ex-lovers of Reeve&#8217;s warn her that she&#8217;s getting into trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Reeve lives in a home permeated with violence and substance abuse. She struggles to survive and protect her brother Robbie, who is perhaps autistic. She can&#8217;t risk letting anyone get too close, and violence is the only way she knows to push people away. Johanna, however, keeps coming back for more, and a pattern forms that becomes almost impossible to break.<\/p>\n<p>Teens will find themselves deeply engaged in this very well-written book, which deals realistically with the difficult issues raised; however, it is disappointing to read yet another LGBT novel that is replete with pain, violence, and hopeless relationships.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by,\u00a0<strong>Nancy Silverrod<\/strong><br \/>\nSan Francisco Public Library<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peters, Julie Anne. Rage: A Love Story. New York: Knopf, 2009. hardcover. 304p. $16.99. ISBN: 9780375852091. Johanna has been nursing a wild crush on Reeve, whom she scarcely knows. She grasps at the opportunity to make a place in Reeve&#8217;s life for herself, even as Reeve pushes her away, and as both Johanna&#8217;s friends and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}