Tribbs Trouble (Good Reads)

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Please enter the message. Please verify that you are not a robot. Would you also like to submit a review for this item? You already recently rated this item. Your rating has been recorded. Write a review Rate this item: Preview this item Preview this item. Grass Roots Press, Trouble had so much potential. For the first hundred pages or so, I really thought it would be a new favourite. It had some good points. The author did a great job making the dialogue, social interactions and thought processes of the teenager characters realistic and relevant. There are countless people in the world actually like these characters.

Of course, the fact it was set in an average area in the UK made it easier for my Irish self to relate to than some of the American stuff I read. Non Pratt also made the two voices distinct and full of life. Considering the POVs switched every few paragraphs it was both necessary and welcome. The characterisation was good. I liked Hannah and Aaron and I could at least sympathise with the rest of them.

But despite all those positive points, as the book went on I genuinely started to find it weak and distasteful. The blurb and the text state that Hannah is smart. But she really is not. She is does badly at school. She only handles herself socially by putting down other people and portraying herself as really sexual. There was no character development.

While both characters issues are eventually brought to the surface, we never see them learn from them or behave differently than they did before. Plus, once all their baggage is out in the open the reader never sees the consequence of that. The revelation is all we get. I expect young people to act like young people and that includes make less than perfect choices and mistakes and everything else. Nor do I think books have to teach lessons or guide kids in any particular direction. However, I think it does everyone a dis-service when authors are straight up unthinking and irresponsible with how they write teens.

If I surveyed the parents of like a hundred 15 year old boys, how many of them would allow him to pretend to be the father of the child of another 15 he just met? What if the kids father was a teacher in the high school they both attended? What if the boy was severely emotionally damaged and just vulnerable in general? And when Hannah finally revealed that her 18 year old stepbrother was the father of her child, oh her parents were mad.

But no-one mentioned how it was, you know, technically rape. The age of consent in the UK is There were a bunch of weird ideas about sex in this book. In places, it felt voyeuristic. The details were too much, imo, when it came to kids. Not the crass banter or the casual sex. Just the way the author handled it. It was very matter of fact about the fact that these people were all having sex, which I appreciated. And it was always the physical ones rather than the mental or emotional ones. Did we need to know how she felt? And for a book that took such a warts and all approach, there was no mention of masturbation which really was the ideal solution.

It was weird about consent. It was weird about promiscuity. Then we find out that Jay was the first guy Hannah slept with it and there was only what, two, others after. And somehow that changed how people saw her situation? Idk it was weird. I found it problematic. As characters, Hannah and Aaron deserved better. Not to mention, it was far longer than it needed to be. The story arc was basically non-existent. There was no real resolution. The style was annoying. I hope you like checking back and forth with both characters constantly and there were lots of niggling little things that pulled me from the story.

What were they going to do after the baby was born? Why was Tyrone such a babe-magnet? And most importantly, why was Hannah always worried about the caffeine content in hot chocolate? View all 6 comments. Nov 06, Stacey prettybooks rated it it was amazing Shelves: Hannah and Aaron are fifteen-year-old students, attending the same school and studying for their GCSEs, yet they couldn't be more different.

Hannah is quick-witted, smart and loves to have a good time although not quite as much as her peers like to think she does , but school work is rarely on her mind as much as boys are. Aaron is a quiet boy who prefers to keep to himself, hiding from the world, trying to overcome what happened at his old school. He can barely think about it himself, let alon Hannah and Aaron are fifteen-year-old students, attending the same school and studying for their GCSEs, yet they couldn't be more different.

He can barely think about it himself, let alone tell anyone else. He avoids making friends and instead volunteers at a retirement home, looking after an old man, Neville, who doesn't even seem to like him very much. Hannah and Aaron are unlikely friends, but when Hannah falls pregnant, Aaron steps up and tells everyone that he's the father. I've said before that I find British young adult contemporary novels to be much gritter than their American counterparts.

Although I love the 'really cute' or 'really sad' contemporary novels that I tend to go for, Trouble is neither. It's a brilliantly written and wonderfully authentic and realistic novel to add to the top of the pile of this increasingly popular genre. It's also interesting to see just how different the two covers are. If cigarette smoke was removed from the cover for John Green's Looking for Alaska , I'd love to know what they'd make of sperm on the cover of Trouble! I think it's a fantastic cover, by the way.

Trouble stands out because it does not shy away from the awkward, uncomfortable and often harsh reality of teenage life, but it's still funny and touching, with two endearing characters that you'll enjoy spending time with. Trouble is a novel about normal British teenage life, but it looks at a controversial issue: It isn't judgemental or stereotypical and it avoids being unrealistic or idealistic which I feel Juno falls into, even though I enjoyed it. It's easy to stereotype pregnant teenagers, but Non Pratt looks behind these stereotypes to tell the story of two fantastic individuals.

I rarely give books five stars, but Trouble is so incredibly honest, tackling a lot of troubling no pun intended! Its honesty also comes from its unique narration. Alternative perspectives are not uncommon, but I've not come across one that has such short chapters — sometimes only half a page long — and I wouldn't have expected it to work so well.

Trouble seamlessly switches between Hannah and Aaron to gives us a genuine view of what's happening for both teenagers and shows us how easy it is to misinterpret someone else's intentions. We watch as both Hannah and Aaron develop as characters — Hannah realises she does not have to be who her friends expect her to be and Aaron starts to enjoy life a little more.

Trouble is an extremely fun, wonderfully British and compassionate novel with a serious side. I started to read Trouble shortly before attending the Walker Blogger Night , just to see what it was like, and before I knew it, I was dropping my current book and taking it to work with me. If you enjoy young adult contemporary, you will want to have Trouble on your shelves. Everyone will be talking about this year and you won't want to miss out.

Head over to the Trouble Tumblr to find out more about the book! Thank you Walker Books for providing this book for review! I also reviewed this book over on Pretty Books. I don't want to talk about it, I don't want to watch Teen Mom, I don't want to even think about it. I think it's connected to some kind of anxiety that I will get pregnant cringe cringe cringe super mega cringe even if I'm on the pill and I take it every single day at the right time and I'm super careful about it.

In my mind I'm always at risk. And now please, I'm done talking about this because I will probably freak out. Not that teen pregnancy is okay because some people can't even menage to take care of a baby at 40 years old, I don't think someone at 15 would be ready to do it. I'm rambling at this point. There was also a lot bullying to the point to be unrealistic.

The one who was bullying was portrayed as really stupid and ignorant but always found really smart ways to hurt the main characters. You can't be both okay? The book ended abruptly and a lot of things weren't resolved with that kind of ending. But I liked the writing. Before going into this I thought it was going to be a 'who was the father' mystery, so I was really surprised when that's not what it was, like, at all.

I really liked Hannah and Aaron and would love to read a sequel about their lives after the birth! Jun 04, Charlie rated it it was amazing Shelves: I fucking love this book. Some of the reasons why I love this book: This book is amazingly colourblind. I think perhaps two or three characters have their racial phenotype referred to.

Otherwise, it's a perfect example of being able to read the characters as whatever way you think of these people, with hints based on their names. Interestingly, I think to write this book in an American context wouldn't allow the author to do this. Racial identity in the UK is hardly a non- I fucking love this book. Racial identity in the UK is hardly a non-issue thanks, UKIP, really appreciate your efforts to bring back bigoted facistism , but the school where no one is really paying attention to their peer's races, or even cultural identity doesn't seem like a stretch from my North-East London point of view.

This is a really sex positive story, for one about teenage pregnancy. There's a misinterpretation of a scene of being forced, which gets resolved into something's that is both sex positive, about enthusiastic consent, and champions boys who call peers on bad behaviour.

Yes, there's examples of perfectly teenage behaviour, with lying about conquests and such, but that doesn't diminish the sex positivity.

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Most importantly, for a story with a pregnant yr-old, no adult ever shames her for having had sex, or getting pregnant, even if they judge her for choosing to have the baby. There are characters in relationships, there are 'in love with you' moments, there is deep love between characters, but there is never any moments where a romantic choice becomes greater or more meaningful than a platonic love. This is really about families of birth, families of choice, and the adaptation of characters to new situations. There are step families, and half siblings, and absent parents, and nuclear families.

And these are all as valid as who chooses you, if you choose them. They will move their own lives, they will make bad calls and then apologise for them, they will decide where their loyalties lie and follow through on it. Bad parents are allowed to be dropped, they don't have to remain as an influencing figure - these kids have agency to choose their story, and their parents have agency and mostly choose to do positive things.

On the sex positivity, it's not only teenagers who are sexual, sexually active, or horny and anything. There are extremely awesome elderly characters who are friends, and confidants, and still allowed to be sexual, to have pasts which aren't romanticised, and be interested in now, and not be examples of 'in my day,' as a contrast with modern sexual or social mores being pulled into play by grandparental figures. Sex was sex in the past, as it is now, and teenagers do it. The elderly characters not only have agency, and the trust of the teen characters, and pasts, but they are friends, not mentors.

That is something which I found completely awesome about Trouble. They are allowed to still be awesome in their own right. They're not just foils for the younger characters to learn. They are active, opinionated, sassy characters in their own right. The main villain, if she could be called such, is nuanced. She is reactive, and manipulative, and the realisations of Hannah about her feed into a detailed and sensible way to think about the classic teenage bitch stereotype.

She is not a stereotype, even as she ticks all the boxes. She is needy and insecure, and gets just enough flashback time in order to follow this through and for her to make sense, even in her villainy. Feb 17, April Aprilius Maximus rated it it was ok Shelves: I loved the writing but I feel like so much is unresolved and it ended quite abruptly! Ahh just so cute!!!! Everybody knows it, they have a reputation for it. Then Hannah finds out she's pregnant and no one to go to. She can't seem to be ale to tell her Her mother?

Not an option She goes to her grandmother,who she can trust not to tell her mother. Her best friend is slipping away from her, when she finds out, she's just pissed off becaause Hannah didn't tell her sooner and goes to Marcy, former teen model and school's queen B, who makes sure everybody know it via Facebook. Aaron is the new kid, nobody knows why he changed schools or where is he from. He doesn't stand slut-shaming or any kind of agression against a girl, he reads a lot and he's so damn sweet to accpet being a fake father.

But, of course, theres his dark secret ; he killed his best friend. Not killed killed like stabbed him or anything. His best went on an exchange program to France and cheated on his girlfriend, Penny, Aaron's best friend. He was defending her and they got into a fight and Chris got in the way of a car. Well, after the whole school finds out about Hannah's pregnantcy and starts guessing who the father is. Aaron goes to her home to talk to her and ends up being the fake father. It's believeble to them because the were alone once and every guessed they had sex but they really didn't.

For half of the book, the question is Who is the Father? They slept together on Jay's last night before going to college. Hannah was really in love with him. Hannah and Aaron start being friends Hannah sees him as a hero but Aaron doesn't let her in because of his past. However, later he starts to trust her, and tells her everything. Hannah decides to confess who the real father is to her family, she comfrots Jay but doesn't want to.

That's why she waits to get her family together and confesses. Hannah has made some mistakes but she's he first character i've ever read in a Ya novel who talks about periods, being horny and the fact that she really likes sex.

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The ending left me wanting for more,it was too abrupt. I want to know what happens after the baby is born with Hannah and Aaron's relationship although it was good enough for me. This and other reviews can be found on my blog: Book Blog Bird I picked up Trouble from the library, quite excited because it had been on my radar for a while. I think I built this book up in my mind too much.

I saw that it was about underage pregnancy and that it was all acclaimed and everything and I thought that it would This and other reviews can be found on my blog: I saw that it was about underage pregnancy and that it was all acclaimed and everything and I thought that it would be raising some really interesting moral questions and shining a light on teen and underage pregnancies, which is a perennially hot topic.

Firstly, I thought the writing was good. I liked the way the families were so supportive of their kids. There are so many YA books where kids are cut adfrift either emotionally or physically from their parents that to see multi-generational families being so close and loving was really great.

The popular crowd that Hannah is so distraught at being dropped from were so unpleasant that I just wanted to chuck a grenade into their midst. They had no redeeming features, as far as I could tell. The boys were a bunch of slut-shamers and the girls were all manipulative and evil. In any sense of the word. In fact, the only time her pregnancy is mentioned is when she has physical symptoms, like peeing and horniness. The age of consent in the UK is sixteen and Hannah was fifteen when they had sex, so technically that makes him a rapist, but this fact was completely skated over.

That just sat all wrong for me and I found the sex scene with him and Hannah a bit grim. I was making faces, and not good ones, and the fact that Hannah was completely in love with him made me like her even less. In all, the whole feel of the plot was like a soap opera and I hate soap operas , where the characters are always screaming insults at each other and getting into fights and having to be physically held back by their friends.

It just got a bit wearing after a while. I also found the lack of resolution in the plot a bit jarring. I wanted to know what was going to happen once the baby came home. I wanted to know how or if things were resolved with Jay. I wanted to know what was in the letter he wrote to Hannah. I wanted some resolution for Aaron with the people from his old life.

It was then that I became more aware of the book and noticed the high praises. I adore YA contemporary but sometimes when something different comes along — like Trouble appeared to be — I hesitate. I guess you could say I just needed a push in the right direction and going to the author signing was definitely the push I needed. After just a few pages I was quickly hooked and I found myself quickly devouring the story. So when he discovers that Hannah is pregnant, he offers to pretend to be the father. Like I said before, Trouble is an amazing read.

I loved how Non Pratt really captured the real life issues that teens go through daily. I loved both Aaron and Hannah. Together, they were perfect. I loved how the story ended but just felt as though it needed more. It ended too soon after a major moment. I wanted to know what happened next. An epilogue would have been fantastic! In all, Trouble was a pleasure to read and I wish there were more stories out like it.

Juno is a fun movie. Hannah Witton recommended this book in one of her monthly favourites videos. Hannah is an amazing YouTuber who vlogs about sex education, feminism, and relationships, including her lovely Drunk Advice series. Check out her videos.

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I have no trouble understanding why she liked Trouble. Non Pratt who I can only assume is just at good at wrangling dinosaurs as Chris Pratt has created a novel realistic in its portrayal of teenagers yet optimistic in its outcomes. This, of course, is one of the reasons I love to read YA. Hannah Sheppard not to be confused with Hannah Witton, above! They smoke, drink, and—oh yes—have sex. So I had flashbacks to teaching in England thanks to the setting of this book.

I definitely recognized the type of school Pratt describes, with registration and mock exams and the dreaded GCSEs. I also had flashbacks to my own time in high school, which is not that long ago; I dredged up memories of peers and friends and compared them with the type of life Pratt portrays here. I was never interested in engaging in these types of hormone-driven hijinks. How do you even read a book while having sex, anyway? That just seems awkward. And to this day I still have trouble getting myself in the mindspace of someone who finds all this stuff important or even interesting.

It all seems rather messy and sticky and unappealing. I was on the prowl. A summer of flirting with Tyrone and learning how to make a guy lose control had given me confidence. Somewhere along the way, women figure out that in order to get by in life, they have to start pretending to be other people. Pratt definitely shows Hannah, Katie, and the other year-old girls as confident.

In a lot of ways, this reminds me of Johanna from How to Build a Girl. Tired of being herself, Johanna finds the confidence required to create an entirely new persona in order to fit into the scene she wants to inhabit.

It is brutally honest when Hannah confides in us that she wants sex: But I want some diversity in my relationships. I want platonic friendships among genders. Trouble comes close with the relationship between Hannah and Aaron. I appreciate the ambiguity, especially towards the end. They are friends, yes. Rather than providing a trite epilogue, Pratt firmly reminds us that life gives no assurances: Hannah is only fifteen; there is so much more that will happen to her, good and bad.

The dual perspectives are a perfect juxtaposition. Both Hannah and Aaron are fallible human beings. They are foils for each other, calling each other out when the other is being an idiot, and generally supporting each other through some of the worst moments of their lives thus far. Although Pratt leaves the romantic status of their relationship up in the air, she establishes vehemently that whatever their feelings for one another, Hannah and Aaron are at the very least true friends.

And I like that. This is a book about empathy, compassion, and how crazy it is that women have to push babies out of their vaginas. One of the men actually asks if the doll is to scale. You can almost hear all the women let out their breath when she says no. View all 3 comments. Mar 19, Emma rated it it was amazing. This book made me cry in a coffee shop. Who would have thought that would happen with me. Full review to come. Oh how this book had so many feels, and I was on the verge of tears when it came to the end.

Trouble is a book that I've always been conscientious about reading because of it plot line and teenage pregnancy. Its not something I really want to read about when I see it on a day to day basis. But was I wrong, yes! Miss Pratt created a far more beautiful rendition of a con This book made me cry in a coffee shop. Miss Pratt created a far more beautiful rendition of a contemporary novel about love, consequences, but most of all friendship and sticking by each other in the toughest times of ones teens life. What I loved was that it wasn't always about Hannah and her pregnancy, both of these MCs have a story to tell and told through a dual perspective.

Hannah is your typical teenager, she likes a drink, she likes to party and she certainly likes having sex too. But one night, when she first took her V card, she didn't realise it was going to haunt her 4 months down the line when she becomes pregnant.

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She doesn't count on the baby daddy being around. So when a curious, new student named Aaron arrives she feels something right with him and before both too them know it, he's volunteered to be the fake baby daddy. I haven't read something like this before and I was typically a fan even when this book was first released. But one day it peaked my curiosity and I thought why the hell not.

I wasn't disappointed instead I was elated, happy, tearful, it was beautiful seeing new lives being born. Not just a new born but the start of something magical. There were moments in the book that made me inadvertently cringe. Especially in the beginning, I was certainly like 'Really!? I think Hannah was someone pretty much like that, But she certainly had some slutty friends naming one, Katie. I actually wanted to really slap her. She was nothing but a wannabe bratty child and she makes Hannah's life a living hell while she hasn't got enough on her plate already.

However let me highlight the WAS in that sentence. I think having another responsibility for not only yourself is something scary, frightening and is the unknown. Hannah comes a long way to accept that, and that's what aspiring in Pratt's writing and her character. Aaron has his own story, his own battles that have haunted him. He is lost and lonely. He meets his best friend in a residential home.

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Aaron felt safe and happy playing cards and spending with someone who needs some company, friendship. Aaron suffered happiness and sadness in such a short amount of time that he needs a focus. Hannah needs his support, a friend to rely on, and he wants to matter again, he needs to do something amazing. He becomes a fake baby daddy and he takes it with both hands and doesn't let go.

There is something deeper between them but friendship is the beginning. You find with this book you don't really connect with characters but you hear the, you listen to them, you hear their story which makes this a beautifully written and emotional novel to experience. If you know of anything similar in genre of this book. Please let me know. I want to hear people's stories like these to witness their happy endings. A book that makes me cry shows how truly amazing this author is. I need more and I can't wait to read Remix.

Rating - 5 This review can be found my blog Jan 29, Sarah Churchill rated it it was amazing Shelves: I enjoyed Trouble even more than I thought I would. At first I thought it was going to be a Juno-like story, but with characters that would fit right into Skins - not exactly people I'd relate to.

I ended up adoring all of the characters except the big jerks, obviously , and being drawn into the complex relationships. I loved the dual POV of both Hannah and Aaron; two very different voices that ultimately fit together like two pieces of a puzzle. The fact that they're both so quick witted made I enjoyed Trouble even more than I thought I would. The fact that they're both so quick witted made it all the more fun.

This isn't just a book about teen pregnancy, it's also about family, friendship, bullying, acceptance, forgiveness and overall It's left me all smiley: Just finished this and I'm laughing and crying at the same time!! When I started Trouble, I was skeptical and didn't know if I was going to finish it, but I kept reading because it had great ratings from a lot of people whose opinions I trust.

But WOW, I ended up loving this book. It's so original and beautiful in its own way. I SO recommend this one!!! Feb 13, Nomes rated it really liked it Shelves: While Trouble is written in an effortlessly engaging style I wasn't sure whether this would be my thing despite it having 5 star ratings from trusted friends.

Look, it opens with a dose of partying, alcohol, random sexytimes, attitude and angst, and some school mean girl undertones. I have definitely outgrown these themes they have never been my-kind-of-thing in YA but Hannah's voice was so refreshing that despite everything I continued on. And I'm glad I did.

I was hooked on voice from the st While Trouble is written in an effortlessly engaging style I wasn't sure whether this would be my thing despite it having 5 star ratings from trusted friends. I was hooked on voice from the start -- but, IMO, the first pages are the weakest. Things really gained momentum after a tenuous start and it soon became clear that this book is completely non-cliche, full of genuine heart, 3D characters and a plot that sails along unexpectedly whatever you assume this teen pregnancy book is about, it isn't. I love how Trouble is told in alternating POV -- like the plot, it is unconventional -- happily switching between Hannah and Aaron mid-scene, flipping back and forth in short bursts or sometimes holding one POV for extended lengths of time.

Also it would be criminal for me not to mention the swoon in an unexpected and unpredictable way. So many threads come together spectacularly in the last quarter of the book -- at this point the book really hits it's stride and the emotion and gut-punches are real and beautiful and balanced with ache and belonging and horror and hope.

And the ending was just fantastic although I could happily have gone on reading what happens next I liked this a lot -- it was engaging and a read I found myself heading back to, consuming it in a couple of days. I am impressed with this debut and have a feeling Non Pratt could easily become a fave YA author of mine. A shaky start for me that built in awesomeness to a spectacular ending.

So watching out for what Pratt has next. Thanks to Trinja and Emily both awarding Trouble 5 shining stars and fave reads of the year for bringing this book to my attention: I'd say 3 stars for the first half and 4. Apr 18, Kate KitKat rated it really liked it Shelves: Jun 29, Kirsty rated it it was amazing Shelves: I have been waiting to read trouble for a long time and I am delighted to say it didn't disappoint.

Trouble is the story of Hannah and Aaron. Hannah is 15 and pregnant and Aaron is the new boy at school who pretends to be the father of her child. It was the perfect read for me for several reasons. Firstly the voices of both Aaron and Hannah are spot on. The way they think, the way chat about things with their friends captures all those thoughts and feelings of a 15 year old and it draws you comp I have been waiting to read trouble for a long time and I am delighted to say it didn't disappoint.

The way they think, the way chat about things with their friends captures all those thoughts and feelings of a 15 year old and it draws you completely in. As a result I was the with them from page one and had to keep reading as I needed to know more about these characters.

Hannah is clever and funny and whilst she does necessarily use it in the traditional way at school you really get the feeling that she is the sort of girl you would have wanted to hang out with when you were at school. Aaron is absolutely adorable and I loved his loyalty and finding out more about his past and why he was the way he was. Not only were the two main characters spot on the whole host of secondary characters from the other kids at school to Aaron elderly friend Neville whom I must admit I have a special soft spot for were brilliantly well done too.

For me this book is all about friendship and the main characters learning what it is to be a good friend. As the book goes on you get to see shifts in the social groups both Hannah and Aaron associate with and it is brilliant to see them at that last stage of high school going into adulthood as they suss out which of their friends are true friends and deserve the loyalty the other can offer.