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Going Underground Susan Vaught Books

A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to get his sh¡t together three years after being convicted of sexting with his girlfriend.

Cases like this occur in real life and it's good the author wanted to highlight the gross miscarriage of justice in such cases.

Unfortunately, I found the character weak. I wanted someone who would FIGHT the injustice, while this guy just accepted it and moped. "It'll get me nothing but more trouble," he tells himself whenever he lets himself start to believe he's allowed to have normal feelings. Woe is me. I didn't buy it.

I was far more interested in the backstory, revealed in a few miserly driblets of flashback. After the final one, he says, "The story of my fourteenth year ends with Dad demanding a lawyer." Excuse me? No, it doesn't. That's where everything happens that puts him in the state-of-mind he's in three years later. It felt like I was reading a sequel to a novel that had never been published and I really would rather have read the first installment. We never even find out what happened to the girl who got him in trouble!

The book deals almost exclusively with the three-years-later story. There are some interesting developments here -- mainly dodging a girl who's too young for him and will bring him nothing but trouble, and building a relationship with a new girl, age-appropriate, who also has a dark past that has ostracized her. Even this material is marred by incessant interruptions to describe every sound or movement his pet bird makes or every nuance of a "cool" song he's thinking about.

A lot of promise here, but the real story was in the parts the author left out.


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Going Underground Susan Vaught Books Reviews

Not award winning writing but a really interesting premise and perspective on how laws have not caught up with technology.
Good reading
I read this for class, and while I was excited based off the description, I didn't love the book. The narrative moved to slowly for me, and while the book addresses an important issue, I was bored and slightly annoyed reading it.
I normally don't review books ive read unless they really got to me, this is one of those, I have a teenage daughter so I wanted to read this before she did, I'm glad I did! This book is about a young man who essentially being a normal teenager with an overall good plan to wait to have sex with his girlfriend and how that decision ruined his life, it made me look again at being a teenager now and how a simple mistake can change a teens whole life. I cried a few times while reading this book and I did send it to my daughter. I want you to know this isn't your standard "sexting will ruin your life" book and I think its a great book to share with your teenager to open up the discussion about sex cellphones and being a teenager. I had trouble putting this book down once I started reading it, and will definitely be reading more from this author! !
Seventeen-year-old Del has kept to himself since getting in trouble three years ago. Big trouble. He accidentally committed a felony three years ago, but is punishing himself worse than the legal system ever could. While at his grave-digging job, he sees a beautiful girl. Legally, he's allowed to date, but will he break his self-imposed restrictions and risk forgiving himself? And, there's a sidekick female African Parrot named Fred.
GOING UNDERGROUND is a cautionary tale about the dangers of sexting, yet it's never preachy. Del is very much a victim, yet he rather than feeling sorry for himself, his guilt consumes him. Susan Vaught has created a multidimensional character with a strong memorable voice in Del about a topic teens should read. At times the book was slow paced, which kept me from giving this novel five stars.
I am not sure if this book was written for adults, but one thing l am sure of is that it is a story of how social media has affected our youth, how something seemingly innocent in the minds of a 14 and 13 year old,(couple) can end up potentionally ruining their entire lives, it is a well known fact that teen think they have the entire world by the tail, thinking that no harm can ever come to them and life will simply go on forever, there are no consequences to their swimmingly innocent actions, and death only comes to the elderly people who have already lived their lives to the end. But this is an endearing story of how one boy decides not to give up, not to give in and to keep fighting for what he knows is right. As a parent l think it would be a great book to share with your teen, and even a younger 20 something child, as there are plenty of lesson about how social media can do great harm to one's future, plus many of life's lessons are introduced along the way, how important it is to choose friends wisely and most of all to not be afraid to let your family and those that truly care help you through life's most difficult of challenges, simply put as adults most of us have absolutely no idea of what our offspring face on a minute by minute, day by day basis, and we have to find our own way (which is often difficult in its own right) to be there through it all for them , in good times and bad.
This was my first Susan Vaught book, and I have come back to download others of hers after reading "Going Underground." As a retired school teacher, I've always enjoyed young adult fiction. This story pulled me in from the beginning. I only read at night, so I often went to bed early just to get back to the story. Del is very likable and believable as the main character. I could feel his anguish. I was shocked at what happened to him. Fred the parrot is my next favorite character. She brought a lot of humor to a very serious topic. I could hear her noises and feel Del's love for her, and hers for Del. I liked the strong relationships between Del and his parents. You don't always see that in teens, but they stood by him, and they were part of the slight handful of people who truly cared for him through his trials and tribulations. All the teen girl characters were well-written and seemed real. Susan Vaught writes in a compelling and highly-readable style. Loved this book!
A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to get his sh¡t together three years after being convicted of sexting with his girlfriend.

Cases like this occur in real life and it's good the author wanted to highlight the gross miscarriage of justice in such cases.

Unfortunately, I found the character weak. I wanted someone who would FIGHT the injustice, while this guy just accepted it and moped. "It'll get me nothing but more trouble," he tells himself whenever he lets himself start to believe he's allowed to have normal feelings. Woe is me. I didn't buy it.

I was far more interested in the backstory, revealed in a few miserly driblets of flashback. After the final one, he says, "The story of my fourteenth year ends with Dad demanding a lawyer." Excuse me? No, it doesn't. That's where everything happens that puts him in the state-of-mind he's in three years later. It felt like I was reading a sequel to a novel that had never been published and I really would rather have read the first installment. We never even find out what happened to the girl who got him in trouble!

The book deals almost exclusively with the three-years-later story. There are some interesting developments here -- mainly dodging a girl who's too young for him and will bring him nothing but trouble, and building a relationship with a new girl, age-appropriate, who also has a dark past that has ostracized her. Even this material is marred by incessant interruptions to describe every sound or movement his pet bird makes or every nuance of a "cool" song he's thinking about.

A lot of promise here, but the real story was in the parts the author left out.