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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
I have no idea why I read Sarah Dessen's books, because they're pretty much the same girl in the same character arc over and over. So the girl is named Mclean this time, and her quirky-but-alluring guy is a brainiac trying to be normal, and her parents-are-people-too moment is about her mom having an affair, divorcing her dad, and changing how she lives, and Mclean coming to terms with that. As always, the book was very well-written, but Dessen's books get less and less compelling the more I read, because the emotional climaxes are always basically the same. OH WELL.
Didn't like this one as much as some of Sarah Dessen's earlier books.
slow-paced
This is a really slow pace book, and seemed really dragged out a lot of the time. I still loved the main character, Mclean and felt like I had a connection with her, but I only picked this book up when I was bored. I almost put this as a DNF, but decided to finish this book one night. It's nothing special, and hoped the ending would have a plot twist or something. ðŸ˜
Sarah Dessen is the queen of young adult/coming of age books. At least to me.
So I wrote a book review on my blog! Read it here: http://distancesaway.blogspot.nl/2015/11/book-review-what-happened-to-goodbye-by.html
So I wrote a book review on my blog! Read it here: http://distancesaway.blogspot.nl/2015/11/book-review-what-happened-to-goodbye-by.html
I really liked this book because it was sweet, lol. McLean felt like a real person, she had her struggles and her good moments. She was thoroughly thought out, it felt like that with all the characters really. It was also a really good surprise to see the characters from Along for the Ride. I'm excited to read more from Dessen.
Sarah Dessen never disappoints. I do wish there was more to the love story, but I do understand that the plot didn't really call for it. It was a great story, and I really enjoyed reading it. ^_^
This book was just okay. Nothing very exciting really happened, and left me bored at times. Very much more dragged out than it should have been, but the storyline was cute!
This is the third book which I've read by Sarah Dessen as an author and, to start with, I really could not get into this book. I had read the first 114 or so pages at work and the writing just didn't draw me in as much as Sarah Dessen's other two novels had. Suffice to say, between Thursday (when I finished work before the New Year) and yesterday I didn't pick up the book once.
However, knowing that I enjoyed the two previous books I'd read, I picked up 'What Happened to Goodbye' once more, continuing from where I left off. I managed to read a good 200 pages of it yesterday, finally getting into the story that Sarah Dessen was trying to tell and absolutely loving it. Something clicked with me, from actually enjoying seeing Mclean's story from her point of view to enjoying learning about the people around her from her family to her friends and the people at the restaurant.
Another thing I enjoyed about the book were the nods to Colby and North Redemane, two places I had already read about in 'The Moon and More'. It was nice to have something familiar along the lines of the ume website which seems to be cropping up and linking the books together. Suffice to say, I did end up enjoying 'What Happened to Goodbye' even if it did take me a little while to get into it.
However, knowing that I enjoyed the two previous books I'd read, I picked up 'What Happened to Goodbye' once more, continuing from where I left off. I managed to read a good 200 pages of it yesterday, finally getting into the story that Sarah Dessen was trying to tell and absolutely loving it. Something clicked with me, from actually enjoying seeing Mclean's story from her point of view to enjoying learning about the people around her from her family to her friends and the people at the restaurant.
Another thing I enjoyed about the book were the nods to Colby and North Redemane, two places I had already read about in 'The Moon and More'. It was nice to have something familiar along the lines of the ume website which seems to be cropping up and linking the books together. Suffice to say, I did end up enjoying 'What Happened to Goodbye' even if it did take me a little while to get into it.
slow at first but ended up being a pretty good book.