3.13 AVERAGE


A satisfying unfolding of a pretty simple story that's more complicated than I wanted it to be. But reminded me that the girls we were are not the women we become and THANK GOD there is more to life than our small towns and our big mistakes.


Team Imogen

3.5

This book was horrible from start to finish.
Molly, the girl who ran away after her mother wrote a book detailing her having sex with her boyfriends brother. Yeah, it was bad. Yeah, life sucked a little bit the worst part? Molly did not grow up in the year since she was gone.
Molly still made the same mistakes, hurt people with no care for anyone but herself.
Everyone else in this story was way too immature and annoying. And what is with the underage drinking going on? In public too?
I tried to like Molly, I really did, but she deserved all she got in the end.

I seriously couldn't put this down and finished it on the way back from a school trip. i have to thank one of my friends for choosing this book for me to read instead of the other. the chapters were short and its just an amazing book

NOPE NOPETY NOPE. Hated this so much. The writing was great but honestly? The plot killed it. I liked the message it was trying to convey but WTF. I agree completely with the double standard as she was the one who suffered through all the judging but how did you love them both? Most of the time they were assholes and everyone was just so immature, I just could not. Also why the FREAKING HECK would you regret what you did and then DO IT AGAIN. I don’t care if you’re a girl or a guy, if you’re willingly leading people on knowing what a mess is going to be and how it will hurt them you don’t deserve my time. And THEY ALL DID THAT. They had all had some kind of ulterior motive that was supposed to make me sympathetic and I just couldn’t. I tried to understand I really did but honestly I didn’t see it. I didn’t even understand why WHY would she like them again. I felt as if there were no reasons. And the mum? She was the most laughable of them all. She hurt her daughter constantly and acted as if nothing was wrong. I just wished the boys were at least likable so I could understand her indecision between them but honestly I would’ve dumped them both and go find me a GOOD CARING DECENT PERSON in Boston. They even let you take all the blame for it. Boy bye.

I honestly can't even rate or review this book. Sometimes I hated Molly, other times I felt for her. The ending sucked.

Honestly, this was a strange read for me- it definitely left me thinking, but also in a funk.

While this book may have some important things to say about the double standards women and men are upheld to when relationships go south, I felt a lot of it was lost because it was hard to like the main characters.

I almost couldn't finish this book because halfway through I just wanted to shake the main character until her teeth rattled. It's hard to root for someone who makes the same mistake over and over. She almost redeemed herself on the end though. I liked the first book by the author a whole lot better.

solid three stars. i liked it enough to enjoy reading it, not enough to think about it much after reading.

Very good book! I loved it and I loved how it ended realistically.