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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
This Lullaby isn't my favourite of Sarah Dessen's books, but it is most definitely a Sarah Dessen book. If you're familiar with her, you know what I mean. Girl meets unlikely boy, they become friends/date, something happens and they stop talking for a while, then they end up together. Not the most original plot line ever but still worth reading if you enjoy her work, which I do don't get me wrong. But if I were to recommend a Sarah Dessen book to anyone it would more likely be Dreamland or Just Listen, which in my opinion are much better.
I can't exactly pinpoint what it is about Sarah Dessen's books that leave me completely and utterly cold, unaffected and a little bored.
Her writing is good, her characters ring true and the situations she write about as well, but I just...? Maybe it's too cheesy for me. Maybe it's too cheesy.
I remember caring about the story as I was reading it, caring about the main character and feeling scared for her, but when I finally finished the book, I was just... kind of unsatisfied. An "Is that it?" kind of feeling.
Bleh. So this was okay, but bleh.
Her writing is good, her characters ring true and the situations she write about as well, but I just...? Maybe it's too cheesy for me. Maybe it's too cheesy.
I remember caring about the story as I was reading it, caring about the main character and feeling scared for her, but when I finally finished the book, I was just... kind of unsatisfied. An "Is that it?" kind of feeling.
Bleh. So this was okay, but bleh.
One of my favorite books as a young teen, and honestly it holds up! The relationship is cute, the brash party girl main character is a nice departure from the norm, and the family stuff is really well done.
A little fluff laced with a little deep, i like this.
I remember seeing this book for the first time during a time when I had no idea what YA states for. It feels such a long time ago, but actually it isn't. I think it was 2007 when my host sister Ale tried to make me read this book, but for some reason I did not do so. I had read "The Truth about forever" by Dessen, I still remember buying it from the clearance section at Books-a-Million, but for some reason I did not get excited about this one after seeing it. And how stupid I then was.
"This Lullaby" introduces us to Remy who has stopped believing in love. You could think that is is because there are no guys in her life. But it is quite the contrary. Remy has had several boyfriends, I don't think that her fingers and toes would be enough to count them. But it is her mother's several marriages and their failures that has shown her that love is not all that glorious everyone seems to think it is. For years she has been the one planning the weddings and eventually settling the divorces. But now she is over with it. It is the summer after her high school and she is counting the months for her personal freedom= university of Stanford.
Everything changes when Remy meets Dexter. She first thinks that he is just one of her normal flings, one that lasts until she feels like ending it. But on many ways, Dexter is different. He is so unlike the "ideal" guy of Remy. He does things that she normally hates, but while she is with him, she is able to ignore those things. When her friends start to talk about love, she gets annoyed. But could what she feels for Dexter be love? Or is she even capable of feeling love? Does love even exist?
I really loved this book! Remy was an interesting character to read about because in a way she reminded me of myself. Remy is a control freak and she has totally lost her trust in love. I don't say that I have completely lost my trust in love, I think I have misplaced it (like Remy eventually learns as well) and I just need to find the person who can bring it back to me. My friends always laugh at me because I love romantic movies, books etc. but I am the one who is planning not to get married etc.
Dexter is completely adorable, and even though he has many traits I would not at first look, find attractive at all, I would eventually adore a guy like him. He is a bit of a slacker, but also artistic, funny and oh so optimistic. A total opposite of control freak, pessimistic Remy. It is really interesting to read how the chemistry develops between then, and how eventually, they become to be the perfect match, which Remy tries hard to deny.
If you are familiar with the other works by Sarah Dessen, you will love this one as well.
As a fan of contemporaries, it is surprising that it's taken me this long to finally reach for a Sarah Dessen book. But... I didn't really like much about the story or characters. I felt like Sarah Dessen was writing herself in circles. Like she was trying to prove a point, but then she did things that didn't prove her point?
The whole bar scene was really weird to me, and I just didn't enjoy it at all. The love interest, was not interesting, the characters were all whiny and annoying. I hated the main characters voice, and I definitely didn't feel the connection between her group of friends who, it seems like, have been friends for ages. I also want to mention that her mother's sub plot was entirely unenjoyable, and really ruined the story for me. Why was it necessary??? This Lullaby didn't really have a plot, which I thought was going to be okay, since it is a more romance driven story, but then the romance fell flat,and so all of it put together was just sort of less than what I was hoping it would be.
It was a whole lot of meh and now I am very hesitant to reach for her other works.
The whole bar scene was really weird to me, and I just didn't enjoy it at all. The love interest, was not interesting, the characters were all whiny and annoying. I hated the main characters voice, and I definitely didn't feel the connection between her group of friends who, it seems like, have been friends for ages. I also want to mention that her mother's sub plot was entirely unenjoyable, and really ruined the story for me. Why was it necessary??? This Lullaby didn't really have a plot, which I thought was going to be okay, since it is a more romance driven story, but then the romance fell flat,and so all of it put together was just sort of less than what I was hoping it would be.
It was a whole lot of meh and now I am very hesitant to reach for her other works.
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This is the second book I read from Sarah Dessen and I was not dissapointed. I like the type of young female characters she writes in her novels. They are unique and are not one dimensional. This Lullaby intoduces Remy Starr a young woman who was abondoned by her father at a young age and due to this never lets her guard down when it comes to letting guys get close. She seems really tough but deep inside she ia actually vulnerable. Her mother is a famous writer who has been married five times which adds to Remy's cynical attitude toward love and marriage. Things change though when she meets Dexter. Although not love at first the romance they build is sweet and innocent. Something Remy is not use to at all. I also enjoyed the best friends in the story.