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Afterparty Ann Redisch Stampler Books

Grade: B

Formerly Good Emma's friendship with Siobhan is a result of a perfect storm. Shortly after moving to a ritzy section of LA with her obsessively overprotective psychiatrist father, she starts a swanky private school on the same days as Siobhan, who never met a rule she didn't try to break, Emma's mother died years ago of a drug overdose, and her father expresses disapproval for Emma by shaming her, anyone can see how she'd fall prey to mean-girl Siobhan, how she didn't figure out that Sib going after the guy she liked wasn't a friendly gesture, the manipulation, the controlling behavior. But at some point the bullying, abusive behavior should have been obvious. Except for that perfect storm.

Stampler has such an engaging writing style and gave Emma an intelligent, ironic voice that made me like and root for her, even when I wanted to shake some sense into her, even as she made poor decision after poor decision. I wish I could have given her a big hug, and taught her how to talk about her thoughts and feelings, something I would have thought her father would have done a better job of. I wanted to get into her father's face and ask him how he seemed to nothing in all those years studying and had so little success in applying that information.

AFTERPARTY is a novel ripe for a sequel with so much mystery around her background. For instance, we learned Emma's mother, a drug addict, was a patient of her father's before they married. Hello ethical violation! I wondered if her mom was actually dead. Why did they move so frequently? Why did her father change her name slightly every time? I'd definitely like more.

I didn't particularly like the ending and resolution of the conflict. I didn't hate it, but I thought it was too easy.

Themes: friendship, school, mean girls, drinking and drug usage, partying, parent/child relationships, lies, first love

I liked, but didn't love, AFTERPARTY. I will look for Stampler's future books.


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Afterparty Ann Redisch Stampler Books Reviews

I did enjoy this book, however I did not enjoy the ending. I was expecting something a bit more dramatic or some sort of plot twist. It was just the kind of ending that left things kind of open-ended, which I don't really enjoy. The book is based around two main characters, Emma, the good girl and her best friend Siobhan, who is a bad influence on Emma. The girls end up making a pact, but after a while, Emma starts getting annoyed with Siobhan's behavior. Eventually, a boy Dylan, comes between the girls, which creates a great deal of drama. Overall, I did enjoy the book and I did enjoy the author's writing style and I do plan on reading more of her work in the future.
Afterparty by Ann Redisch Stampler is not your ordinary, average contemporary story, there are quite a lot of resemblances to the movie Mean Girls, which keeps this book interesting.
Emma and her Father have finally settled down in California after constantly being on the road with her Dad's job, on her first day at her new school she makes friends with Siobhan, and it's not long before these two are inseperable, Siobhan soon has Emma lying to her Dad, sneaking out to parties, skipping school, drinking and smoking weed, seeming to become more mentally unstable as time goes on, Siobhan proves what kind of a friend she really is when she hooks up with Dylan, a boy that Emma has had a crush on from her very first day.
Starting to realise how mean and spiteful Siobhan really is, with the more Emma tries to distance herself the worse she becomes especially after Emma starts dating Dylan herself.
It's when against her better judgement she goes to the Afterparty (a yearly huge party), which she and Siobhan had been planning to attend for most of the year, that tragedy strikes.
When Emma finally comes to realise what the pact that she made with Siobhan really meant it will change both their lives and leave them both fighting to live.
While I did enjoy this I found that I couldn't seem to stand most of the characters in this story, and unfortunately that meant that I couldn't really seem to care what happened to quite a few of them.
While I did like the concept, the characters let me down.
Sometimes it feels impossible to find a way to talk with your teens about the tough topics. When my daughter started talking about Afterparty, by Ann Reddish Stampler, I realized that Ms. Stampler handed me the perfect opportunity. I read the book along with my daughter and found us having very open conversations about the impact of peer pressure, drug and alcohol use, and sex that as parents we want to talk about WITH our kids not AT our kids. Afterparty is well written, believable and compelling. As a Middle School principal and as a parent, I can't recommend this book highly enough.
This book really knocked me over in the best way. It's a can't put down read with a dark, psychological vein running through it. Ms. Stampler does such a good job of portraying the dynamics at play in a teen's quest at finding her own identity outside her family of origin. It's also a really glamorous read - taking us through Los Angeles in all its glory and a little of its grit. It's a story about a toxic friendship, and how even the most poisonous relationships can feed us in ways. There's a love story, urban glossary scenery and a heroine you can really root for. Buy it! Read it! Ms. Stampler is a true talent. It's written for teens, and I think teens would love it! I'm far from being a teen, and I loved it too. It's a bit of a cautionary tale for us over-protective parents.
Grade B

Formerly Good Emma's friendship with Siobhan is a result of a perfect storm. Shortly after moving to a ritzy section of LA with her obsessively overprotective psychiatrist father, she starts a swanky private school on the same days as Siobhan, who never met a rule she didn't try to break, Emma's mother died years ago of a drug overdose, and her father expresses disapproval for Emma by shaming her, anyone can see how she'd fall prey to mean-girl Siobhan, how she didn't figure out that Sib going after the guy she liked wasn't a friendly gesture, the manipulation, the controlling behavior. But at some point the bullying, abusive behavior should have been obvious. Except for that perfect storm.

Stampler has such an engaging writing style and gave Emma an intelligent, ironic voice that made me like and root for her, even when I wanted to shake some sense into her, even as she made poor decision after poor decision. I wish I could have given her a big hug, and taught her how to talk about her thoughts and feelings, something I would have thought her father would have done a better job of. I wanted to get into her father's face and ask him how he seemed to nothing in all those years studying and had so little success in applying that information.

AFTERPARTY is a novel ripe for a sequel with so much mystery around her background. For instance, we learned Emma's mother, a drug addict, was a patient of her father's before they married. Hello ethical violation! I wondered if her mom was actually dead. Why did they move so frequently? Why did her father change her name slightly every time? I'd definitely like more.

I didn't particularly like the ending and resolution of the conflict. I didn't hate it, but I thought it was too easy.

Themes friendship, school, mean girls, drinking and drug usage, partying, parent/child relationships, lies, first love

I liked, but didn't love, AFTERPARTY. I will look for Stampler's future books.