This is the second book I've read by Laurie Halse Anderson and I was impressed yet again. Her writing is very personal and gets right inside the protagonist's mind in a way that pulls the reader into the centre of her stories.
Twisted is about a teenage boy called Tyler who finds himself in the high school limelight after pulling a stunt that lands him with 6 months probation and hard labour - which then results in him gaining a super hot body and a bad (in a good way) reputation. Suddenly, his impossible crush on Bethany doesn't seem quite so impossible and everything looks like it's going Tyler's way for once... that is until he is accused of a serious crime that he didn't commit. Then his whole world turns upside down and almost no one is on his side, including his father.
I think Anderson has done an amazing job with Twisted. I was never bored and I sympathised with all the protagonist's emotions and turmoil. I still didn't enjoy it quite as much as I did Speak and I think that's simply because I can never quite relate to male point of views as well as female. But I want it understood that Anderson did a great job as a female writer creating a male voice that was realistic and not romanticised. I am definitely going to read more from Laurie Halse Anderson.
