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Interview with Herta B. Feely
Author Hertha B. Freely
First, I want to thank Herta B. Feely and NetGalley for
providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.
Saving Phoebe Murrow a novel by Herta B. Feely is a
incredibly intense book that must be read by any parent or guardian that has a
loved one in middle school or high school! This is a story that will really
make you sit and think what is your child really doing on social media? What is
really going on with them that they are not telling you? This is a chilling
book of todays reality of the online world and what effects it has on your
children. This is not a light-hearted book-this is an emotion filled-gut wrenching
book. You will want to hug your child and have a discussion after reading this
book.
Saving Phoebe Murrow hits on some very sensitive and taboo
subjects. Some of these may trigger some of the readers. Some of these subjects
are cutting, cyber bullying, infidelity, underage drinking, fake Facebook accounts,
attempted suicide.
My heart went out to Phoebe Murrow during this whole book!
She just wanted what ever girl wants in school to be accepted by her peers. To
go to the dance, the parties, to have the guy of her dreams ask her out. Life
kept throwing her curve balls left and right. Reading this book It reminded me of
my times in school and how difficult it was. I can’t imagine going through
everything Phoebe went through with the pressures of Facebook. I just wanted to
give her a hug!
I had a love hate relationship with Phoebe’s father for few
different reasons. I loved the career path he had being in the political eye.
However, when he should have been concentrating on his daughter he was out
sinning!
I was not a fan of the character Sandy at the beginning of
the book. By the end of the book I despised her for so many reasons. I don’t think
there has been a character in a book I can honestly say that I hated more than
I did her! Herta did an amazing job with this character.
This book was dedicated to the memory of Megan Meir. Herta B.
Feely read an article in 2008 about a woman whom posed a fifteen-year-old boy
on social media to prey on a vulnerable thirteen-year old Megan Meir. They both
lived in the same area as each other. In 2006 this woman (Lori Drew) launched a
cyber-bullying attack on Megan through Myspace (this was popular prior to Facebook),
and Megan ended up taking her own life.
Hertha was deeply saddened by Megan’s death, and appreciated
her effort to fight cyber-bullying by creating a foundation in honor the memory
of her daughter. Please visit www.meganmeierfoundation.org
for the website contains resources for parents, teachers, and teens whom deal
with cyber-bullying.
According to the National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, “There were 7,296 counseling sessions with young people whom talked
to ChildLine about online bullying and safety last year.” Cyber-bullying has
become a huge problem with texting, social media and electronic devices. There
needs to be something done about this. A good website for this would be
Cyber-bullying Research www.cyberbullying.org
Saving Phoebe Murrow is a book that is going to stay with me
in my heart way after I am done reading it. The storyline, the characters, and
the concept of the book you just cant forget. Plus, Herta B. Feely just became
one of my favorite authors. She did an incredible job researching and writing
this book. I would gladly read and review for her any day!!!
RIP Megan Meiers
Cyber Bullying NEEDS to stop!!!!
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