About This Book:
Goodreads Summary
✥Stand-Alone
✥Release Date: 5/11/2004
✥Format: Paperback
✥Setting: Lakeview, NC
✥Page Count: 281
✥Genre(s): Contemporary, Romance, YA, Chick-Lit
✥Date(s) Read: 6/24-6/27
✥Rating: Book: 3/5 Audio: 3/5 Narrator(s): Katharine Powell
My Thoughts:
(There are some slight spoilers here. If you haven't read it, then read at your own risk after this)
Audio:
I liked the narrator but she sounded like she should have been reading for a New Adult book. She sounded a bit older for a Young Adult book.
Book:
When a book ticks you off..but then, begins to redeem itself. Reminding you of yourself and your own children...maybe that's a lot of why I was so mad. And the fact that a teenager not listening and you want to shake their eyeballs out their heads. #thelifeofaparent.......
What Did I Think?
This is at least my second attempt at reading this book. I'm not quite sure what it is about Sarah Dessen books that makes them so hard for me to read but yet, I can't help but want to read them. I learned to just listen to them over sitting down and reading the books. Although, when I do listen to them, the book isn't too far off (unless I'm out shopping, etc).
This book though, one person that got on my last nerve throughout, was the mother! Even when she was in the right, she aggravated me! Mostly the aggravation came because of her initial attitude when the story started. If I didn't know any better, I'd think Dessen has issues with her mother going by what I remember about her books (and/or one of her parents...maybe both..I don't know. Of course, I could be wrong and this is a total assumption).
As the book progressed and hit over mid way through, Halley was getting on my last damn nerve! As a mother, she was truly pissing me off with the "Mom, it doesn't matter". Lying. Spending time with boys she shouldn't sneaking out. Maybe because I am a mom who has dealt with the craziness that is a teen....twice. Two different sons with two different issues. Maybe that's why it made me so mad but at the same time, even if I had "perfect" children, it would still make me mad. The disrespect. Both her and her friend are a hot damn mess. I was rooting for Halley's mom in many areas because of nonsense. This book had me wanting to yank characters out of the book and shake their brains out their heads, fixing it and pushing it back in, "fixed". lol
I continued to read because I had made it over halfway and wanted to see how things turned out and hoped both girls.
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