Jenny Pox By J. L. Bryan
The book I read this quarter is called Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan. It’s a self published book I got for free on my kindle, and it’s 309 pages long. Jenny Pox is classified as horror in the kindle store, but the blurb didn’t seem to scary or graphic. It told me Jenny Pox was about a teenage girl named Jenny who couldn’t touch anyone without making them sick with a disease/infection nicknamed “Jenny Pox”. At the time, I was going on a sort of shopping spree for free books, so I bought it along with about eight other self published books. I could have ended up never reading Jenny Pox, as I never got to reading half the books I bought that day. But about a month later, when it was time to pick a new free reading book this quarter, I decided to read
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I was really perturbed by almost everything in this book. The description of “Jenny Pox”, a kind of infection that caused puss leaking blisters to break out all over a person's skin, nauseated me. I think I gasped out loud when she described a girl’s encounter with Jenny. “A thick red rash of swollen pustules covering her face, hands and arms...one big bump on her cheek burst and leaked a fat teardrop the color of Elmer’s Glue” (page 13). When I heard that Jenny killed her mother and the doctors who delivered her at birth, I felt real sympathy for Jenny. But what the blurb failed to mention is that Jenny is not the only main character, and she is not the only one with a sort of “Jenny …show more content…
While Jenny can spread disease, Ashleigh can spread love. This could be a great, world changing power, but not the way she uses it. She uses her power to manipulate people and has a detailed plan to basically take over the world. I hated Ashleigh with a passion. I wasn’t too huge a fan of Jenny, but Ashleigh was terrible. And along with that, Ashleigh can also spread lust, causing some of the scenes to be very graphic.
The third main character is the boyfriend Ashley has wrapped around her finger. His name is Seth, and though it seems like he’s just another boy who’s smitten with Ashley, but he has my favorite power. The power to heal. Predictably, Seth is the only one that can touch Jenny, they fall in love, etc. Seth isn’t a very complex character.
The ending of this book kind of killed it for me. I was happy with this slight ew-factor to the writing and the crazy motives of characters. I thought that was why it was considered horror and people were just being a little dramatic. At the end of the book, Jenny has a sudden change of heart. The whole book, Jenny never wants to hurt anyone. But when their small South Carolina town finds out about her powers, out of necessity she fights back. But she goes too far, killing nearly everyone. Seth’s heart is ripped out. I was reading in a panic, praying this was just one of Jenny’s nightmares. But sadly, it wasn’t. All in all, Jenny Pox scores a 4.5 out of
I was really perturbed by almost everything in this book. The description of “Jenny Pox”, a kind of infection that caused puss leaking blisters to break out all over a person's skin, nauseated me. I think I gasped out loud when she described a girl’s encounter with Jenny. “A thick red rash of swollen pustules covering her face, hands and arms...one big bump on her cheek burst and leaked a fat teardrop the color of Elmer’s Glue” (page 13). When I heard that Jenny killed her mother and the doctors who delivered her at birth, I felt real sympathy for Jenny. But what the blurb failed to mention is that Jenny is not the only main character, and she is not the only one with a sort of “Jenny …show more content…
While Jenny can spread disease, Ashleigh can spread love. This could be a great, world changing power, but not the way she uses it. She uses her power to manipulate people and has a detailed plan to basically take over the world. I hated Ashleigh with a passion. I wasn’t too huge a fan of Jenny, but Ashleigh was terrible. And along with that, Ashleigh can also spread lust, causing some of the scenes to be very graphic.
The third main character is the boyfriend Ashley has wrapped around her finger. His name is Seth, and though it seems like he’s just another boy who’s smitten with Ashley, but he has my favorite power. The power to heal. Predictably, Seth is the only one that can touch Jenny, they fall in love, etc. Seth isn’t a very complex character.
The ending of this book kind of killed it for me. I was happy with this slight ew-factor to the writing and the crazy motives of characters. I thought that was why it was considered horror and people were just being a little dramatic. At the end of the book, Jenny has a sudden change of heart. The whole book, Jenny never wants to hurt anyone. But when their small South Carolina town finds out about her powers, out of necessity she fights back. But she goes too far, killing nearly everyone. Seth’s heart is ripped out. I was reading in a panic, praying this was just one of Jenny’s nightmares. But sadly, it wasn’t. All in all, Jenny Pox scores a 4.5 out of