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Same Difference

av Siobhan Vivian

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Feeling left out since her long-time best friend started a serious relationship, sixteen-year-old Emily looks forward to a summer program at the Philadelphia College of Art but is not sure she is up to the challenges to be faced there, including finding herself and learning to balance life and art.
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This was a fast read, and the story went along very smoothly. It's about Anke, a 16-year-old girl, caught between choosing the life she wants, and the life her wealthy parents and friends want. ( )
  amyghilton | Jul 27, 2016 |
I did like reading this a lot more than A Little Friendly Advice. It’s not an absolutely stunning book, but I was able to get into the story more and relate to the characters more in here.

I really liked Emily, as she felt like a normal, average girl who just wants to try something different for the summer. There’s no tragic backstory, no missing parents—Emily’s just average. I even liked the fact that while she’s a good artist, she recognizes the fact that she’s not “OMG SO SUPER SPECIAL” and has a long way to go to being truly great and that she has her strengths and weaknesses in art. It’s a nice added detail that adds to the realism. And I also really related to Emily’s identity crisis of not being “arty” enough to fit in with the rest of her classmates and that her suburban life isn’t very impressive compared to Fiona’s or Yates’s life in Philadelphia. And while there’s contrived teenage girl fights, I like that Emily’s more willing to hold the olive branch out and mend her relationships with Meg and Fiona.

I do like Yates, and I think he’s nice. Not so much a fan of him being the love interest. I could buy Emily getting a massive crush on Yates and Yates helping her out during the summer course, but once they move into an actual relationship, I started to get a little squicked out. The one positive thing I do like about the relationship is that it doesn’t go without consequence—even when Emily and Yates both deny having done anything, Yates is still stripped of his position and loses some of his opportunities. Again, it’s more of a realistic touch than most other YA novels would do.

Fiona is a tough one for me, especially with her juxtaposition with Emily’s other friends. I liked that she’s the girl who tries too hard to be mature and worldly, and while that impresses Emily in the beginning, it doesn’t last very long. It is infuriating that Fiona doesn’t learn anything from being torn down in front of her peers, but again, it’s a very teenage reaction. (If anything I’ve picked up on Siobhan Vivian so far, it’s that she grasps the teenage mindset very well: you rarely learn anything quickly as a teenager.)

And I do like the growing distance between Emily and her other friends here. It’s easy to write off a scene like Emily yelling at her friends for drawing obscene pictures in her sketchbook. But I liked that there’s that wall between the two groups, and that Emily definitely didn’t appreciate it. I like that they have to acknowledge this growing apart. The only relationship I didn’t get a good grasp on was with Emily’s family—we really only get to see her mother and sister, and even then, they only pop in and out of the story. I felt that there could have been more done with them, especially toward the end of the book.

Overall, it’s a solid read. I like the bits of realism—some may knock Emily for not being very interesting, but that’s what made me like her in the first place. I’d say it’s worth checking out if you want something different in realistic YA novels.
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  princess-starr | Mar 31, 2013 |
Its about a girl who wants to be artist. She made alot friends in the city. Her friend have a drug problem. She won the art contest. This book is a lot of action plus drama. If you like drama and you will like it.
I like this book because it about an artist. It s a city like book. 7th graders should read it . It's same difference a friend and you. ( )
  aiyana.aeas7527 | Jan 5, 2012 |
Emily has it all: a perfect house, a BFF who lives across the street, and a neighborhood Starbucks that serves the girls twin frozen peppermint mochas before they order. Seems like the idyllic teen life. While attending a summer art program in Philadelphia, Emily learns more than she bargained for. There is a whole big wide world outside Cherry Hill where everything isn't rosy and sunny. Emily learns to find her voice and learns about herself. ( )
  bookwoman0122 | Jun 14, 2010 |
Emily is not happy with her life the way it is, but her discontent lurks beneath the surface. In her attempt to sweep away her dissatisfaction, she slowly becomes immersed in this new artistic world, letting go of her life in Cherry Grove little by little. I think her reaction to the vastly different worlds she travels is a common one. It’s the old adage that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Because things are getting difficult in Cherry Grove, she teeters to the other side of the spectrum, somehow convinced that things will be better if she leaves her past behind her. But problems creep in, and instead of dealing with one set of problems, she’s forced to deal with two. Her story is about her figuring out that she needs to balance who she was with who she is becoming, and discovering how to do just that.
Emily is fairly passive, afraid to really speak her mind for fear of not being understood or upsetting someone. Because of this, the book is powered by her internal reactions and perceptions. As the story progresses Emily slowly finds her voice. She doesn’t make a radical personality change; she’s still low-key and quiet. But she’s grown as a person and come to a greater understanding of who she really wants to be.
Meg and Fiona, her friends representing Cherry Grove and Philadelphia, respectively, both annoyed me, to be honest. I don’t mean that they were written poorly, but the characters themselves were annoying. Meg was whiny and clingy; I could see why she would be hurt by Emily’s absence and changes, but she was pretty selfish herself and wasn’t willing to listen to Emily until she yelled loud enough to be heard. Fiona was overbearing and arrogant; even though Emily found her to be inspirational, I think Emily’s personality was too weak for Fiona and she’d always feel somewhat inferior and submissive to Fiona. Vivian does a good job of exploring the reasons behind both her friends’ behavior, and I think the way the relationships stand at the end of the book fits the story well.
Because, for better or worse, I was a lot like Emily when I was sixteen, I found the story to be a quick and attractive read. The development of Emily’s talent for art over the course of the book gave me something to grab onto. However, I can see how others might find the pacing to be too slow. There is a romantic subplot to the story that I thought was a sweet addition, but Emily’s struggle to find herself was the real draw for me. ( )
  ericajsc | Feb 13, 2010 |
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