About This Book:
Goodreads Summary
📍Stand-Alone:
📍Release Date: May 11, 2004
📍Format: Paperback
📍Setting: Colby, NC
📍Page Count: 374
📍Genre(s): YA, Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
📍Date(s) Read: 8/2-8/3/19
📍Rating: Book: 4.75/5 Audio: 4.75/5 Narrator(s):Stina Nielson
☕Reread: 2
☕N.E.W.T.'s Magical Readathon: An "E" in Herbology-Read a book between 350-390 pages
My Rambles:
This is the first book I ever read from Sarah Dessen and I loved it! That's what made me pick up more of her books. I haven't found many of hers since that I loved as much as this one (until recently..one came really close: Once and For All). The other books I liked but not something I would go out of my way to really recommend individually. I would probably just give her name as a whole if they wanted individual books after this one and Once and For All.
So, when I needed a book for the N.E.W.T.'s readathon and my other "fell through" and I went searching for something that fit the prompt and I was happy to see this fit the category and the fact that my local library had the audio book made it that much better. I always listen to her books because it's hard for me to just sit and read them. I think this was about the time I started liking audio books because they get me through books much faster but I really started getting into them within the last couple of years or so (listened to/read this book the first time sometime between 2011-2013..for whatever reason, the date(s) I read them isn't on Goodreads right).
rambling again huh? This time audio books!?!?
ahem....
I came across this book during a time I think I needed it and also realized that I loved contemporary romances around family. At the time, I wasn't reading romance that much, as fantasy had completely taken over my life within the last 2-4 years (Read Twilight in about 2009 when the first and/or second movies were coming out..either on DVD & the 2nd to theaters...whichever...another ramble..sorry)...
This was my start again, to getting back into romance, but this time, a different type of romance. Before, I read a lot of the "Urban Romance" I think it would be called (Nikki Turner, etc), then, as I was getting my fill of those, I found YA Fantasy (YA period) ever since (about 10 years ago now..read them over the summer). It's not that I had never read YA before and knew that some of the ones I read before were focused on younger folks (Teens), I never knew that it was called "YA" until much later (and sometimes, I still struggle telling what is what in genre lol). But, since reading this, I wanted to get more into regular romance but it was hard because I was so used to reading books with some type of action in it that it took a while for me to get past that and now that I am used to reading regular romance, it can still be a bit hard and miss that action.
But, over the last couple of years, I have read more romance, found some great books, a favorite author and looking forward to more!
What did I think of it this time? Did I like it as much as the first?
I still really loved the story. A lot. I think my feeling for it was more nostalgia but at the same time, I knew why I loved it..I'm still not quite sure how I feel though...The love is there...yet, there's the part of me that's a little older, reading it again, seeing the imperfections (that I may have noticed before but just didn't remember), I think that's what got me going back and forth on how much love I have for it. That's why it got a 4.75 because I don't give 5's as easily as I used to but it definitely isn't a 4.5 starts. Although, there was one part, although you got the idea of what happened, it would be nice to know what may have been said/done..but maybe that's just me being nosy..lol..
This is a book that would more than likely be re-read again in the future.
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