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Drive Me Crazy Terra Elan McVoy 9780062322432 Books Reviews

My 11 year old loved this book beyond reason. She keeps going back to read it again after a couple of months. She is waiting not very patiently for the companion novel to come out in the Spring so can find out all about Fiona's side in the fight with Cassie before this book starts. McVoy really has a way of connecting with her readers. I highly recommend this book!
Review courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales

Quick & Dirty A trip across country, filled with adventure, family, friendship and coming to terms with yourself and life.

Opening Sentence “Wonderful is the only word to I can use to describe it.”

The Review

This story is told in alternating chapters from Lana and Cassie’s viewpoints. It starts off in Lana’s viewpoint and immediately we get how excited she is to be on the trip with her grandparents, and for chance to really become friends with Cassie. Despite Lana’s worries about her mom she is sure this going to be the best trip of her life. Lana’s mother is sick, but no one is sure how bad. Just as quick when I first read the chapter by Cassie it becomes clear how different the girls are on just about everything. Cassie has recently fallen out with her best friend and fallen in with the popular girls. Cassie and Lana don’t agree on anything but despite that they always seem to find some way to connect.

One of those most interesting things about this book and part of why I loved it is the struggle Cassie goes through in this book. She has taken on the persona of a kind of shallow selfish girl to be like the new friends she has just made, but it isn’t long before we find that she is constantly questioning herself and her choices. I think that we all go through that, not necessarily the same way, but I feel that is a normal struggle in high school. Are our friends really “friends”, who do we want to be, how we treat others, and the people we are drawn too. Lana really helps Cassie on this journey a lot of times simply by just being herself. Now Lana was hands down my favorite, she is a person who chooses to focus on joy, on being real and trying to have as much fun as she can. Her story is really poignant as well, Lana knows her parents sent her on this trip because her mom is sick and they are trying to figure it all out and not worry her while they do it.

Lana doesn’t tell Cassie what is going on, initially I think because she doesn’t want anyone’s pity and she would rather focus on making the trip special instead of adding sadness too it. After that I think she wants to but through a bunch of wasted chances really doesn’t get too. Cassie does find out about it and gets really hurt, which leads to a big misunderstanding between them. However, that misunderstanding leads Cassie to truly figure out who she is and the kind of person she wants to be. This is a beautiful story about friendship and family. I can’t do this review without saying that I seriously want to go to the End of the Road myself, it just sounded so magical. It’s a place that Lana’s parents have been and her Grandpa Howe has been there as well with his first wife. Lana and Cassie are traveling with Lana’s natural grandpa and Cassie’s grandmother who are newly married to each other.

I also have to rave just a bit about Grandpa Howe, and Grandma Tess, seriously they rock. They are so outgoing, understanding and frankly very cool in my eyes. I mean they are on their honeymoon and taking their granddaughters along with them, for a couple of reasons I think they fully intended for Cassie and Lana to bond on the trip, but it is also an opportunity for all of them to get to know each other and really blend the family. It’s really a unique look at blended families from a viewpoint we don’t get to see that often. Sigh, I won’t lie, this book was pretty great; I was hooked from the start, loved the adventures, both the girls and even cried a little.

Notable Scene

“Her friends at home, they aren’t as understanding as we are.”

“I eke out a small smile, but no amount of dessert tomorrow, or the rest of this trip, will sweeten the bitter fear inside me.”

“We both know without saying that mom could use a little magic.”

FTC Advisory Katherine Tegen Books/HarperTeen provided me with a copy of Drive Me Crazy. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
This is a story told in alternate chapters by Lana and Carrie. The two are thrown together on a road trip with their honeymooning grandparents. They met for the first time at their grandparents' wedding. Lana thought that they had a chance to become good friends and was looking forward to the trip. Carrie isn't interested in being friends. Carrie is too busy trying to keep in touch with her new group of friends.

Lana is trying to have fun but she is also very worried about her mother. She has been having lots of headaches and Lana is certain that her parents are keeping something from her. Naturally, she fears the worst. What if her mother has cancer and is going to die? She is trying very hard to hide her fears from her grandparents and pretend that she is having a great time on their trip.

When the girls can forget about their other worries, they do have fun touring Hearst Castle, going to an amusement park, and doing other touristy things. But the tensions grow between the girls and they spend a lot of the trip not talking. I had a hard time empathizing with Carrie's obsession with some friends who didn't seem very nice or very kind. I had a little more sympathy when she was thinking about the fight she had with her former best friend Fiona which sent her looking for new friends.

I liked Lana a lot. I liked her caring relationship with her parents and I liked her delight in spending time with her grandparents. I thought her relationship with her Grandpa Howe was especially good. I could understand her worry about her mother and could also understand why parents might want to protect a twelve-year-old by not telling her what was happening.

This was an excellent story. I came to like both girls and the friendship they built.
Love this book! Love this author! I will recommend to all of my middle school (girl) students.
It opens up the way a young lady thinks