I have now completed the book and it was nothing like I had thought! From the beginning, my expectations weren’t any high. I can say that I was just a little wrong… Because the book was actually good! It wasn´t the best book I´ve read but absolutely not the worst either.

I think what made this book good was that it was a believable story. I could see myself in the main character; we are both teenagers with similar thoughts and problems. The author could really write about teenagers without making it sound artificial. I can really see myself reading another book of this author in the future. It was the plot, the characters and the mystic in the book that kept me interested and curious about what are going to happened next. Another good thing about this book were that it wasn´t predictable, you never knew how the book were going to turn out. I will definitely recommend this book to my friends!

The main character is a sixteen year old guy who lives in North Falls- a small town were rumors spread fast. His name is Darren Flynn. He is a good athlete, a swimmer, and swims for the school team. When he turned sixteen, he put on weight and began to get attention for his looks. He got the good body of a swimmer and is a natural sexy guy; this makes Darren popular.

I got the feeling that Darren isn´t comfortable with the attention that he acquires, I don´t think that he likes to stick out. Even if he is popular, he don´t have any close friends just because Darren stick to himself rather than hang out with others. You can follow him through the book, the more you read and when the problems get worse, how he shut off reality and doesn´t speak to anyone.

Darren is a thinker, he ponder a lot about his life and future, his family and friends. Even if Darren thinks a lot, he never comes to a conclusion, instead, he always find new questions. This makes me feel sorry for him, that he never gets the chance to solve a problem because it always comes new ones. I get frustrated when he doesn’t speak to someone or ask anyone for help. I guess he is scared to open up to someone and show his emotions. His father taught him long ago that boys don´t cry, that you don´t tell your teacher when someone is mean to you. You hit back, you don´t go away and cry. How simple is that?

I have now read half of the book and the story is now climbing up to the top. I think that every book or movie is build like a curve. Like when you look at statistic for how a (konjuktur) is build up. It goes up to the peak and then down to the bottom.

Okay, what´s have happened from the last comment?

Mr. Tracy has given Darren a very high grade in English but fails some of the other guys in Darren’s swim team. This pisses the swimmers off and they get support from several other students at school that also think that Mr. Tracy is unfair. Darren doesn’t say much, he won’t to get involved. The anger that the student’s carrying makes them feel that they have to take revenge of Mr. Tracy. A rumor starts. A rumor about that Mr. Tracy is gay and pedophile. Darren’s friends load down gay porn from internet and put it in an envelope.  They shoved it beneath the Principals door. Inside it was twelve pictures and a note saying:

Mr. Tracy has made me sick to liv

I am soashamed having to see this

I am not in yr school. I am 11 years old

I would like kill myself

I’m so curios about what are going to happened next! I really don’t think that what they did were the absolutely most excellent thing to do. The consequences can be really big, not just for them but also for Mr. Tracy. When Mr. Tracy finds out about the gay rumor I think that he are going to suspect Darren for telling about their little “car trip”. This might give Darren some hell of a problem and that is just what I think are going to happen. But I can’t figure out what sorts of problem so I guess I’ll have to continue to read.

It´s Sunday night and I´ve just read a few chapters in Sexy. And guess what? The big THING happened! Or did it..?

Darren was on his swim practice in school, when his ride home went home early. The wetter was bad, it had just started to snow and the wind was hard. Darren still decided to walk the quit long way home. When he stood alone by his locker in the school corridor, his English teacher, Mr. Tracy, appears.  He offered Darren a lift home, an offer he polite turned down. But after a second look out of the window, Darren changed his mind. At first, Darren felt uncomfortable. How could Mr. Tracy know in which direction Darren lived? Why was he fussing with the dashboard? Why did he say that if Darren´s “long legs” were cramped he could adjust the seat? Why did he drive so slowly? It didn´t seem to be normal. And the weirdest thing of all; why did he say, full of emotions that Darren shouldn’t call him Mr. Tracy but Lowell, his first name. It was then Darren remembered that Mr. Tracy most often were at the swim meetings and took pictures…

I´ve didn’t expect this to happen. One thing was I right about, that his look would have something to do with the big thing. But I didn’t expect that a teacher would try to “hit” on him. Because that´s what I think Mr. Tracy was trying to do. Also, I don´t think this will be the end of the story, that it won’t happen anything else. I think that Mr. Tracy will do other things to Darren, but what? That´s a question I can´t answer right now.