Draw the Line
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Adrian Piper is used to blending into the background at his Texas high school. He may be a talented artist, a sci-fi geek, and gay, but none of those social groups get him at all. In fact, the only place he feels free to be himself is at his drawing table while he s creating his own world through the Renaissance-art-inspired superhero of his own design, Graphite. But in real life, when a hate crime spurs Adrian into action, he must decide what kind of person he wants to be. Maybe it s time to not be so invisible after all no matter how dangerous the risk.
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DNF - PG 58
Why?
Short answer: Adrian.
Long answer:
Okay, so there probably is an important story here. If you want to know how it was handled, there's plenty of reviews from people that actually finished the book. I read enough of them for me to realize that the payoff was not going to make the book worth it. Because, for me, the book isn't worth it on it's own.
Because I hate the main guy, Adrian.
To be honest, I already hated him less than fifteen pages into the book. He's insufferable. He's stuck-up about being a geek, looks down on others that aren't the right type of geek, he thinks he's so much better because he isn't just a fan: he's a creator. And he's upset because no one understands his art - even though he quite happily announces that his art isn't for anyone but himself. ... Soo, have your cake and eat it too?
Honestly, I have a very small group of main characters I actually like, an even smaller list of main YA male character's that I actually like, (...I can think of one off the top of my head...) but everything about his personality irks me.
Also, parts of the narration bothers me, because we don't even know that one of his BFF's is a ‘plus-sized black girl' until she mentions it in a very contrived conversation. (I cannot figure out her character because she (1) ‘never even had one strand of hair out of place' (2) if she had to choose another table to sit at in the cafeteria, would choose the teachers (3) reads like Lydia Martin EXCEPT (4) is apparently a sassy black BFF (tm) and (5) sits at ‘little Nerd Island' table in the cafeteria. It's like we have to have a black girl, so of course she has to be sassy, even though the bulk of the character reads more like a Lydia Martin expy.)
