Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

Publisher- Alfred A. Knoph Books for Young Readers
Publication Date- October 12, 2010
Pages- 326
Awards- Edgar Award Nominee, 2011 Printz Honor, 2011 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2010 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction

Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything.
 
So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to?
 
Edgy and gripping, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable novel: smart, funny, dramatic, and always surprising.

I got this book from my state's library eBook program. I read it in about 2 weeks, but it would have been sooner if it weren't for school getting in the way. I got it Sunday October 7, and read 40% of it in the first week and a half and I read the other 60% last night. 

It's kind of a mystery story, but not in a Sherlock Holmes way. Throughout the whole book you're hearing about this "Charlie". A lot of the story is told through flashbacks. You have a chapter in the present from Vera's perspective, and then a flashback chapter, and then maybe a chapter from Vera's father's perspective, or "The Dead Kid's" (Charlie's) perspective. Vera knows what happened on the night of Charlie's death throughout the whole book, but she doesn't tell us until the last few pages. 

I loved the plot, I thought it was relatable and very dark. There weren't major plot twists or anything like that, it was a straightforward story, which I haven't been reading too much of lately. And it wasn't jest Vera dealing with her friend's death, she had personal demons and other problems with her life that she was dealing with.

I felt the characters were very realistic. They act like real people, not like the flawless heroes that YA is full of today, it was a breath of fresh air.

My Rating: 

This was so good guys, I highly recommend it! 

I have decided to stop putting down here what I will review next because everytime I do that, I stop reading that book. So you'll just have to be surprised. I will say that I am reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy for school, and I might actually be reviewing it on here, despite it being a school book, because I have been meaning to read it for a while now, and it's not like the typical school-assigned book.