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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
my one complaint is i wish the book had been longer. i wanted to see more of the characters. but even with five characters telling their stories over four years, i felt like i knew them, saw change and development, and really appreciated how their voices progressed through the book.
A book about 5 people that spans 4 years. They're not necessarily friends, but they're all somehow involved in each other's lives via different degrees of separation. Each character gets maybe 2-5 pages per chapter. It hits highlights for each of the characters.
The stories themselves are interesting. But it seems like a chapter ends right when something is beginning to happen. You see flashes of their lives and maybe skip months before you see a "main character" again. It feels like the book avoided a lot of emotional moments for all the characters. We never truly got to see the reactions to break ups, divorces, deaths, etc...
I did like the author's writing style. And each character did have a very specific voice. 3 stars.
The stories themselves are interesting. But it seems like a chapter ends right when something is beginning to happen. You see flashes of their lives and maybe skip months before you see a "main character" again. It feels like the book avoided a lot of emotional moments for all the characters. We never truly got to see the reactions to break ups, divorces, deaths, etc...
I did like the author's writing style. And each character did have a very specific voice. 3 stars.
If the Breakfast Club were spread out over all of high school you'd get this book, about five random members of one freshman class whose high school experience is covered in quick check ins. There are probably a few too many characters and the ending isn't the strongest but I liked them all a great deal and I'll be damned if I didn't read the whole thing in one sitting.
And seriously. Infinite In Between is a pretty rocking title for a book.
And seriously. Infinite In Between is a pretty rocking title for a book.
3.5 stars. The perfect read to make you nostalgic for high school. I loved how the author chose snippets from each of these characters lives through each year of high school, and how the character when in and out of each other's lives instead of working off a group of friends from the get-go. For a book that's over 400 pages, it moved really quickly and I was always happy to pick it up to see what was going to happen next.
definitely not what i expected, and a quick read despite its length. though i enjoyed reading this, i don't think it stood out as wildly exceptional.
love of my life. oh my gosh 6 stars for this one. MUST MUST MUST read for high schoolers, specifically freshman and those about to enter high school. it's the perfect illustration of the teen mind and how it works. cliche at parts but when it is it's justified in a way that shows that sometimes life can be expected/anticipated. between the five characters, everyone can find someone to relate to.
Things I love:
1. YA lit
2. Stories about disparate people coming together
3. YA lit about disparate teenagers coming together
I really liked this book. It wasn't perfect, but I liked it. I liked that we weren't told everything about everyone. You had to piece some things together. Being gay wasn't an Issue. Having sex wasn't an Issue. A minor character (not one of the 5) getting pregnant wasn't an Issue. It was just high schoolers being high schoolers. You know, being dumb and falling in love and just being teenagers. So yeah, I really liked this book.
A conversation I liked between Whitney and Jake:
"'...Hey, I wish we had hung out more in high school. Why didn't we?''
'I was hiding,' Jake said thoughtfully.
'Me too.'
'You?"'
'In my own way.'
Hearing that made Jake wonder if they'd all been in hiding, if he hadn't been the only one who'd felt alone for so much of high school."
1. YA lit
2. Stories about disparate people coming together
3. YA lit about disparate teenagers coming together
I really liked this book. It wasn't perfect, but I liked it. I liked that we weren't told everything about everyone. You had to piece some things together. Being gay wasn't an Issue. Having sex wasn't an Issue. A minor character (not one of the 5) getting pregnant wasn't an Issue. It was just high schoolers being high schoolers. You know, being dumb and falling in love and just being teenagers. So yeah, I really liked this book.
A conversation I liked between Whitney and Jake:
"'...Hey, I wish we had hung out more in high school. Why didn't we?''
'I was hiding,' Jake said thoughtfully.
'Me too.'
'You?"'
'In my own way.'
Hearing that made Jake wonder if they'd all been in hiding, if he hadn't been the only one who'd felt alone for so much of high school."
Aaaaand we're done. Not much of a story in this one.
This book is express the problems you face in high school. This book is about 5 teens who write letters to their future selves in the freshman orientation group. Each one of them face their own difficulties.