Forever

Reader reviewed by Pam

Forever is supposed to be an adolescent's first taste of a novel containing a realistic sexual relationship. I don't think that Judy Blume was very successful at doing this unless she thinks that all adolescent relationships are shallow and immature. It seems more like she was writing this book with mild young adult porn to up her popularity vote with teens. Everyone says that Lady Chatterley's Lover is one of those "no-no" books, but if anything, I think DH Lawrence in his ADULT novel portrayed the sexual content in a more tasteful and poetic way than Judy Blume ever did. (Granted, the time periods in which these novels were written are drastically different.) Face it, she was just using the Piers Anthony approach of capitalizing on new-found sexuality in teens to sell her book. Not saying Pier Anthony is all bad.