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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
Really good! I love a good love story that actually not a story about romance. Also, when do you get a YA with a groovy omniscient third person narrator? Not very often!
Title: I’ll Be There
Author: Holly Goldberg Sloan
Series: Yes
Cliffhanger: No
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Rating: 4.5
HEA:
This is one of my favorite books that I have read this month. None of the others have come close.I am going to try to make this review short so I don't give too much away. It is best to just read it and experience the awesomeness for yourself.
What I loved about this book is that it is different than a lot of books that I have read lately. It doesn't rely on sex and unrealistic drama. This book is more subtle and has more meat on it's bones so to speak. Sam and Riddle were amazing together. Reading about them and their lives and relationship together was great. They have had a hard life but are always there for each other. Emily was not like a lot of female teenage characters that I have read. She wasn't obsessed with boys and popularity. She was refreshing.
The only issue that I had was towards the middle-end. There was a little more drama in the “everything that can go wrong did go wrong” way. Also I wanted more with Emily and Sam together and even Emily and Riddle. And the different perspectives became too short for how much it jumped around at one point.
I’ll Be There is a great book and I highly recommend it if you haven't read it already. When I finished it I wanted more. I was so sad that it ended that I actually wished for it to be part of a series . . . I just noticed that it has a second book!!!! Probably should have checked that :)
Author: Holly Goldberg Sloan
Series: Yes
Cliffhanger: No
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Rating: 4.5
HEA:
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YesThis is one of my favorite books that I have read this month. None of the others have come close.I am going to try to make this review short so I don't give too much away. It is best to just read it and experience the awesomeness for yourself.
What I loved about this book is that it is different than a lot of books that I have read lately. It doesn't rely on sex and unrealistic drama. This book is more subtle and has more meat on it's bones so to speak. Sam and Riddle were amazing together. Reading about them and their lives and relationship together was great. They have had a hard life but are always there for each other. Emily was not like a lot of female teenage characters that I have read. She wasn't obsessed with boys and popularity. She was refreshing.
The only issue that I had was towards the middle-end. There was a little more drama in the “everything that can go wrong did go wrong” way. Also I wanted more with Emily and Sam together and even Emily and Riddle. And the different perspectives became too short for how much it jumped around at one point.
I’ll Be There is a great book and I highly recommend it if you haven't read it already. When I finished it I wanted more. I was so sad that it ended that I actually wished for it to be part of a series . . . I just noticed that it has a second book!!!! Probably should have checked that :)
Story of two homeless brothers escaping their unstable father and finding a family.
This one won't be out until May, but add it to your wishlist. An unbelievable look at coincidence, fate, destiny, and crossing paths, you won't be able to put it down.
-sam just happens to be extremely hot and a guitar prodigy, sure
-emily and sam fall in love despite fewer than ten lines of dialogue exchanged between them, half of them monosyllabic, although we're told they talk a lot on the phone and when they hang out, fine
-bobby is the creepiest little shit but he gets his comeuppance because he has a bad prom, i guess
-emily actually groans out loud because her flea market prom dress that she didn't even try on fits her perfectly and makes her look like a fashionable model when she wasn't even trying, okay???
-emily just happens to see sam at a bus stop and that's how he's found and how he gets his memory back, are you kidding me with this??!?!?!?!
-emily and sam fall in love despite fewer than ten lines of dialogue exchanged between them, half of them monosyllabic, although we're told they talk a lot on the phone and when they hang out, fine
-bobby is the creepiest little shit but he gets his comeuppance because he has a bad prom, i guess
-emily actually groans out loud because her flea market prom dress that she didn't even try on fits her perfectly and makes her look like a fashionable model when she wasn't even trying, okay???
-emily just happens to see sam at a bus stop and that's how he's found and how he gets his memory back, are you kidding me with this??!?!?!?!
Sam hasn't been to school since the second grade when his schizophrenic father took him and his younger brother Riddle and went on the lam. Since then, they've moved every time his father starts getting paranoid and Sam and Riddle are on their own for pretty much everything. Our story starts when Sam walks into a church and hears a girl singing a solo he's sure is meant just for him. And everything begins to change.
The brilliant storytelling drew me into this book and didn't let me go until the last page. There's a little something for everyone here - contemporary, adventure, thriller, romance - and it's told in a way that feels somehow classic. This is a story you won't soon forget.
The brilliant storytelling drew me into this book and didn't let me go until the last page. There's a little something for everyone here - contemporary, adventure, thriller, romance - and it's told in a way that feels somehow classic. This is a story you won't soon forget.
“For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.”
Okay so I read this years ago (I was maybe in 7th grade) in my school's library and I remember loving it to bits that I just needed more. And 7th grader me at that time was still reading Geronimo Stilton books and I remember being surprised at how much I enjoyed it.
I was touched by the relationshipSam had with his brother, Riddle. I simply loved the character development here and the writing style was one that got me intrigued and got me to love this book despite me not being fully dived into the genre yet.
I am not sure is this is a suitable read for YA or Middle Grade because I just simply cannot remember.. . but this is definitely something that readers who are looking for a family based and contemporary based plot will enjoy.
Full Review: http://wp.me/p8IxRn-4H
Okay so I read this years ago (I was maybe in 7th grade) in my school's library and I remember loving it to bits that I just needed more. And 7th grader me at that time was still reading Geronimo Stilton books and I remember being surprised at how much I enjoyed it.
I was touched by the relationshipSam had with his brother, Riddle. I simply loved the character development here and the writing style was one that got me intrigued and got me to love this book despite me not being fully dived into the genre yet.
I am not sure is this is a suitable read for YA or Middle Grade because I just simply cannot remember.. . but this is definitely something that readers who are looking for a family based and contemporary based plot will enjoy.
Full Review: http://wp.me/p8IxRn-4H
