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“Strange how being the center of attention can make a person invisible.”
That line, from Shari Green’s FOLLOWING CHELSEA, perfectly captures both the spirit and the loneliness of its leading lady and first person narrator, seventeen year old Anna Richards.
Anna is not an easy girl to love, and she knows it. Abandoned by her father, tolerated by her mother, banished from school, and betrayed by both her best friend and her boyfriend, the reader might think Anna would welcome a change of scenery. But Anna’s not really like that. She clings to what is familiar: the Laundromat where she goes to find solace, the house her mother just put up for sale. She manages tension by secretly scrunching her toes inside of her shoes. Unable to wholly process the loss of so many people and things that had defined her world, Anna’s natural response is anger, her demeanor combative.
And yet, it’s only when she and her mother move away that things get really complicated.
Mom, of course, sees this as an opportunity for a “fresh start” for both of them. The only problem, Anna realizes upon embarking on her first days at her new school, is that Anna looks just like another girl at that school. A girl named Chelsea.
And everyone loves Chelsea. And Chelsea is dead—the victim of a drug overdose completely at odds with her so-sweet-girl-next-door reputation.
Hold on, O reader, before you make any judgments. This is not a ghost story, not a paranormal dream—in fact, there’s nothing overtly supernatural in the entire novel. Anna’s uncanny resemblance to the dead girl everyone loved is a matter of pure coincidence. Although Anna herself (and the reader who takes this journey with her, by extension) may feel rather cursed at every turn, there is no point within this striking and poignant novel that removes her from absolute reality. This is a world the reader can occupy without resorting to fantasy, a horror that fans out not from what our imagination may conjure but from an honest and sometimes merciless accounting of the way real people often are—and from what our own questionable choices may cost us.
Fortunately, Anna finds Doran, even as she decides to embrace her likeness to Chelsea and, if possible, exploit it. Doran is a “goth,” a “loser,” a fringe dweller that, at one time, Anna may never have even given the time of day. But he’s a brilliant artist, too—and soon becomes Chelsea’s tutor.
“You’re the densest person ever,” Doran tells her at one point, even as Anna seems to actually become the Chelsea everyone misses--and as her relationship with Chelsea’s old boyfriend, Ryan, morphs into something both delusional and dangerous. “”I’m your friend. Friends care.”
It’s a good thing, too. As FOLLOWING CHELSEA edges closer and closer towards its touching and dramatic climax, there are points along the way where the reader will feel certain that Anna can never recover herself. There’s a sense that she can never again be who she once was, nor the person she so unwisely chose to follow.
Without giving it all away, however, just knew that redemption and forgiveness—to the extent these things can be had at the end of an uncompromising novel such as this—are rendered with the same realism and grit as were the conflict that made them seem unattainable in the first place.
Highly recommended!


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Following Chelsea Shari Green Books Reviews

A poignant story about fully-drawn and conflicted characters, FOLLOWING CHELSEA grabbed my attention from the first line and didn't let me go. Green is a fresh new voice in contemporary YA fiction--one not to be missed!
Ok, I'm not sure how I really feel about this book. Some parts I enjoyed. The others I was like huh? The story follows Anna who doesn't have the best home life at the moment. She also doesn't have the best school life.

Her parents are going through what will soon be divorce. Her mom who's having a hard time, decides let's move to a new town. Totally fresh start. Anna who isn't happy about that goes anyway.

I really started to feel that Anna may be a little crazy. Chelsea is a girl who died about 3 months before she gets there. She looks a lot like her, so everyone is freaked out. Anna decides to jump into Chelsea's place. Trying to be her, have her boyfriend and her friends.

This essentially backfires on her. Which I guess would be the moral of the story. Don't try to be anyone else, but yourself.

I was on the fence about Anna. I didn't really like her. She was very obnoxious and didn't care. As it ended I did like her a little more but not much. My favorite Character was Doran. He was the artist and the only one she really truly became friends with.

This was a shorter read. I was left questioning some things. But it was good.....Lissa
Oh my....this was tender, filled with teenage angst, pain, and eventually recovery.

Following Chelsea by Shari Green was a beautiful YA Contemporary that tackled serious issues. The author did an incredible job of showing us how Anna navigated her way through them.

We're introduced to Anna her last year in high school in some serious hot water. It's right after this event that Anna loses nearly everything her best friend, her boyfriend, her childhood home, her father, and soon she's about to lose her identity.

Relocating seemed to me like a good idea, but when Anna and her mother move for a fresh start, Anna soon finds herself following in the footsteps of a ghost. She doesn't just bear an uncanny resemblance to Chelsea, she's practically her twin and finds herself the object of much speculation.

I won't giveaway the relationship between Anna and Ryan (Chelsea's boyfriend) but I will say the scissors...I cringed the entire time I read that part, screaming, "NO! NO! NO!" And I will only add to that that I get it, I could feel his pain, understand how Ryan had to deal with his sorrow and make his grief real so that he could eventually move on.

Ms. Green's writing was simply beautiful. There was never a dull moment and the ending was perfect, a conclusion with Doran that tied it all together nicely.

If you're a lover of YA Contemporary, Following Chelsea is a breath of fresh air and one to snatch up!
Anna’s life is undergoing a major upheaval. Her father is out of the picture, her mom wants to sell the house, her best friend betrays her, and Anna goes to a new school after disciplinary action at her old one. Also, she's not an easy-going person.

At her new school, Anna receives strange looks and reactions. People stare and murmur. It turns out Anna has a striking resemblance—a twin-like sort of resemblance—to a classmate named Chelsea who recently passed away. Chelsea was nice and lovable, unlike Anna. How Anna responds to this likeness is interesting. Will she turn into Chelsea, softening her personality so that she’s accepted at school, or will she butt heads with everyone? Chelsea’s boyfriend has a magnetic attraction towards her—will she fall for him as well?

This was a unique storyline. I never read a doppelganger tale quite like this before. I thought it would be paranormal because of the description, but this is pure contemporary. It was a quick, fascinating read. I’d like to read more from Green.
“Strange how being the center of attention can make a person invisible.”
That line, from Shari Green’s FOLLOWING CHELSEA, perfectly captures both the spirit and the loneliness of its leading lady and first person narrator, seventeen year old Anna Richards.
Anna is not an easy girl to love, and she knows it. Abandoned by her father, tolerated by her mother, banished from school, and betrayed by both her best friend and her boyfriend, the reader might think Anna would welcome a change of scenery. But Anna’s not really like that. She clings to what is familiar the Laundromat where she goes to find solace, the house her mother just put up for sale. She manages tension by secretly scrunching her toes inside of her shoes. Unable to wholly process the loss of so many people and things that had defined her world, Anna’s natural response is anger, her demeanor combative.
And yet, it’s only when she and her mother move away that things get really complicated.
Mom, of course, sees this as an opportunity for a “fresh start” for both of them. The only problem, Anna realizes upon embarking on her first days at her new school, is that Anna looks just like another girl at that school. A girl named Chelsea.
And everyone loves Chelsea. And Chelsea is dead—the victim of a drug overdose completely at odds with her so-sweet-girl-next-door reputation.
Hold on, O reader, before you make any judgments. This is not a ghost story, not a paranormal dream—in fact, there’s nothing overtly supernatural in the entire novel. Anna’s uncanny resemblance to the dead girl everyone loved is a matter of pure coincidence. Although Anna herself (and the reader who takes this journey with her, by extension) may feel rather cursed at every turn, there is no point within this striking and poignant novel that removes her from absolute reality. This is a world the reader can occupy without resorting to fantasy, a horror that fans out not from what our imagination may conjure but from an honest and sometimes merciless accounting of the way real people often are—and from what our own questionable choices may cost us.
Fortunately, Anna finds Doran, even as she decides to embrace her likeness to Chelsea and, if possible, exploit it. Doran is a “goth,” a “loser,” a fringe dweller that, at one time, Anna may never have even given the time of day. But he’s a brilliant artist, too—and soon becomes Chelsea’s tutor.
“You’re the densest person ever,” Doran tells her at one point, even as Anna seems to actually become the Chelsea everyone misses--and as her relationship with Chelsea’s old boyfriend, Ryan, morphs into something both delusional and dangerous. “”I’m your friend. Friends care.”
It’s a good thing, too. As FOLLOWING CHELSEA edges closer and closer towards its touching and dramatic climax, there are points along the way where the reader will feel certain that Anna can never recover herself. There’s a sense that she can never again be who she once was, nor the person she so unwisely chose to follow.
Without giving it all away, however, just knew that redemption and forgiveness—to the extent these things can be had at the end of an uncompromising novel such as this—are rendered with the same realism and grit as were the conflict that made them seem unattainable in the first place.
Highly recommended!