Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager | 
| Author: Beatrice Sparks
Publisher: HarperTeen
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 51765
Format: Special Edition
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Avon Books ed
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0380808625
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.76092
EAN: 9780380808625
ASIN: 0380808625
Publication Date: June 30, 2000
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Fourteen-year-old Jennie's life is turning upside down. Her father has walked out, and her anguished mother seeks solace in pills. Her best friend practically abandons her to be with a boyfriend. It seems like Jennie's real best friend is her diary. Then she meets Mr. Johnstone, the substitute math teacher. Jennie has never met such a charismatic teacher. She feels honored when Mr. J. seems to single her out for special attention, and begins to fantasize about him as her boyfriend. When Mr. J. first reveals his feelings for her, she is thrilled by the relationship that grows outside the classroom walls. Then, slowly, Jennie's diary becomes a record of her loneliness, pain, and confusion. Will it also offer her a way to escape from this treacherous love?
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 Victimization and preaching May 31, 2002
Claire Hennessy (Dublin, Ireland)
29 out of 35 found this review helpful
There are two things Beatrice Sparks is good at (sorry to disappoint you, kids, there's no "anonymous teenager" handing their diaries over to her for editing) - creating victims and preaching. Even while dealing with issue of teenage pregnancy, she chose to have the character be raped so that she was absolved from responsibility. This book is no exception. As for the preaching - the character constantly berates herself for not being positive enough, and reminding herself what she's grateful for, usually accompanied by capital letters and excessive exclamation marks. The narrator is too-good-to-be-true and her style too juvenile for her age, but if you enjoyed other works by Dr Sparks, pick it up - it's almost identical to everything else she's written.
 Not how a teenager really thinks or feels June 1, 2004
Rayna (Massachusetts)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I read this book becuase it looked good and I saw alot of good reviews on amazon, but it was a huge dissapointment. Its not realistic at all. She is constantly saing she is a negative thinker and going off to the park and crying with her friends or mother and just making all of these connections that a real teenager never would. Theres too many CAPITALS and exclimation marks!!! with everything she said its almost mocking, that teenagers are total idiots. Its distracting from the story, that in reality isnt that good. Its hard to explain, but i was not suprised this was written by a psychiatrist. this person obviously was just trying to tell teenagers not to have relationships with teachers, and not writing a good book. Its a dissapointment. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY. This person needs to stop writing books, they are horrible.
Okay... March 6, 2005
MovieBuff721
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have read the following diaries by Beatrice Sparks: Go Ask Alice, Annie's Baby, Kim: Empty Inside, It Happened to Nancy, and Jay's Journal. I didn't think this book was going to disappont me like Kim: Empty Inside did.
This is probaly the 2nd worst book of the series that I've read. The character is boring and it doesn't seem there much character development, for her its sort of like an emotional rollercoaster. She scolds herself for being bad and sad that the teacher is gone, then when he comes back shes all cheery, it just doesn't make sense. I wish I could have seen this diary in its full form and not edited. This book seemed to say the same thing over and over, "I met her Johnstone, we had to act like we didn't like each other..." stuff exactley like that everday when she helped him in summer school. I found it boring. At some point while I was reading it felt as if a chore to just get through it. The most suspenseful part only took me about 7 minutes to read. I would not recommend this, I would get Go Ask Alice, It Happened to Nancy, or Annie's Baby.
The original James Frey February 1, 2006
The Renaissance Blogger (New York City, NY, USA)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Brought to you from the author of Go Ask Alice... yeah, right.
This is probably not the first great hoax in publishing history, but I'm sure it's one of the most successful.
In spite of the fact that the actual source of this book has long been revealed and known, the publishing company continues to brazenly assert that this is a genuine document. It's as ridiculous as the continuing insistence that The Amityville Horror is a true story, too.
It should take any literate adult no more than one and one half pages to determine that this is neither the language nor the syntax of an adolescent/young adult.
It is a known fact that this shameless propoganda was the work of Beatrice Sparks, a Mormom activist who created an entire series of these books, in which children are destroyed by the evils of homosexuality, premarital sex, drug abuse, satanism, etc.
Without diminishing what positive impact this book, or any of the others, may have had on impressionable youth, and without condemning its good intentions (is anyone in favor of having AIDS?), these books are complete rubbish.
Like Mr. Frey, the intentions are not the point.
The point is that these books are being published as nonfiction.
And they are lies.
 Trecherous Love June 4, 2001
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I thought that Trecherous Love was a good book. It's a good book for any teenage girl, and tells that you can't always trust whom you want to trust. The main characters are Jennie, Bridget, and Mr. Jonstone. What happened to Jennie can happen to anyone. Mr. Jonstone was her substitute teacher and she fell in love with him, because he made her feel like no one else could make her feel. She felt as if she couldn't trust anyone but Mr. Jonstone, because he was the only one that understood her. Her best friend, Bridget, left her for her boyfriend. I think that this book is great for anyone who likes to read about real live situations that have happened to other people.
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