Mary Sue: A Brief Summary

The main character in this book was Amber Sand, an unpopular teenager who happens to have a popular-as-heck boyfriend. To be honest, I didn’t think much of her at first, believing her to be a childish portrayal of a teenager. To be honest, I thought the entire book was childish (except the profanity...) and perhaps the book may have been better as a Juvenile Reader book. But that’s for another time.

Anyway, the features that first stood out to me were her inherent brattiness and complaining personality, and of course, the fact that she fit the description of a Mary Sue.

A Mary Sue is a term in the fanfiction or story world which represents a character with no flaws whatsoever or flaws that don’t consistently portray themselves in the story. However, they often have unintentional flaws in their character which may contradict their (idealized and otherwise perfect) personalities. They may have enemies or rivals, but the enemy will always succumb to them in the end. The male version of a Mary Sue is a Gary Stu, which Charlie Blitzman feels like to me as well. …show more content…
So how can this be? The author obviously wanted this novel to be one filled of romance, but to make the novel longer and appear to have more substance in it, of course the pairing needs conflict. Enter school Head Cheerleader and popular girl: Ivy Chamberlain. And after they get past that, the book’s still too short for a regular teen novel. Enter Amber Sand’s doubts and worries about her matchmaking “skills” not