Things Left Unsaid

by Stephanie Hemphill

~After a lifetime of conforming to the image of what her parents and high school friends want her to be, Sarah must come to terms with her own identity when her destructive best friend tries to commit suicide. Told in the form of free-verse poems. ~

This book is a perfectly acceptable book. Not great. Just fine. My only question is this: Had it not been written in poems, wouldn't it be your typical formulaic teen fiction? I don't think any new ground has been broken here. Nor did I find the poetry to be all that impressive.