![]() ![]() The second novel is Busted: Confessions of an Accidental Player by Antony John. And until he can be honest with people in his life, they aren’t his true friends and he isn’t happy. In truth, he is dealing with a whole lot of pain. Yet he feels he cannot let Gretchen know who he really is, or let any of his new friends know what he really was. He becomes popular by adhering to this new persona. A pretty girl, Gretchen, befriends him, dubbing him Happyface. He decides to face life anew, to reinvent himself as the guy with the unfaltering smile. When his parents divorce, he moves across town with his mother where he must start a new school. This family consists of alcoholic parents and an older brother who excels at everything the protagonist does not. As he debates this dilemma, his family life falls apart. This person, Chloe, is his best friend, and he’s afraid to ask her out and ruin his only real friendship. ![]() Written in a journal format, it combines diary entries with comic/poignant sketches, occasional logs from emails and IMs and even a rare classroom assignment to give us the first person account of a shy, insecure, artistically talented teen who imagines life would be better if only a certain significant other would see him in "that" way. ![]()
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