Twisted                                                             250 pp

.Laurie Halse Anderson                                 Reviewed by Charly

“Dad liked to pretend I was a dangerous criminal because of the foul deed. But it was just a stupid prank.”

Tyler Miller, a high school senior, was an average guy, the invisible nerd boy. That was until he got caught spray-painting the school. After he becomes known as a “bad boy” to the students and teachers, he just seems to do worse and worse. Is father constantly thinks Tyler will do something else, or endanger is job. But at least it gains him attention, as Bethany Millbury, the queen bee at school, has started to notice him and his newly formed muscles. However, when something horrible happens at a party and Tyler, with his reputation gets blamed for it, things are way out of control. Suddenly everything is too much, and Tyler doesn’t know if he can cope with it and his dysfunctional family. He sees only one choice, but is it the right one?

This book is a realistic fiction, which I really enjoy because the things that happen in the book could really happen in real life. The main character isn’t a happy go lucky, he has real problems, but he is able to figure things out. As soon as I picked up the book I was brought into Tyler’s world, and I couldn’t escape until I had learned how Tyler pieced his life back together.