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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
This book was awesome, but more than that I read it at exactly the right time. After a long, confusing, and kind of "bleh" day, I zoomed through the second half of this book. No spoilers but I sobbed. Multiple times. Sometimes though it is just cathartic to cry, and books make more sense than life right now. If I can just read about these characters struggles, and successes, and cry with them and come out on the other side feeling better, then I think the book has worked it's magic. It was also just an amazingly powerful book, about figuring out who you are, and how your family does, or doesn't define you.
Wow this book. It hooked me from the beginning so much so that I read the whole thing in one sitting. I did not expect to enjoy this as much as I did. It made me laugh and cry. I will definitely be checking out anything that Jeff Zentner writes in the future
Love. LOVE. Perfectly depicts the South. Characters are so real. I really appreciate that the book shows a realistic portrayal of teens without resorting to sex, drugs, or alcohol to bring drama. Love that there's a positive parent relationship in addition to the problematic ones. Religion is dealt with in a sensitive, nuanced way as well.
I was not a fan of this, it just didn't hold my attention.
I was not expecting to love this book- I'm stingy with my full 5 stars, and it wasn't until about eighty pages in that I realized this was definitely going to be one. I laughed out loud at least ten times, and cried two or three times as well. It made me feel everything. And there was a reference to my favorite line in the entirety of Freaks and Geeks, so basically everything about it was perfect.
Good writing, but the kind of contemporary novel I very very much would not read for fun.
This was recommended by a customer at the bookstore, and it did not disappoint. It's been a while since a book made me bawl.
This wonderful book is about so many things. It's about rising above the atrocities of horrible parenting. It's about friendship, real friendship that touches your core. It's about grief and about withstanding the hundreds of little pushes in the wrong direction that it might bring. It's about perseverance and resilience. It's about living your life for yourself, and finding the little things that matter the most and can sustain you, no matter what. Not only was this a fantastic book for young adults, fut for old adults, too.