kaitburesh 's review for:

Once and for All by Sarah Dessen

3.0

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I'm starting to think Sarah Dessen just isn't for me. This was fine - especially since I listened as an audiobook and had no real expectations. I was looking for something to play while I did things around the house and was driving and this fit the bill. My biggest gripe, and I think this is a Dessen trademark, so again - this is probably a reader taste issue rather than a plot issue, but my biggest issue is that Luna is this super broken character because her boyfriend, with whom she spent a sum total of 12 hours with one time, was killed in a school shooting. This boyfriend she loved so much, but was too sick to attend the funeral for and whose family she has no relationship to - likely because of the aforementioned 12 hour history. Then this Matthew McConaughey type comes along and he and his love "save" her from her own sorrows. I just don't buy it. I likely would have loved this 10 years ago, but I think I'm just beyond it now.