A review by joyousreads132
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta

4.0

I love Ms. Marchetta. I really do. Her books always leave me educated a bit more about life after reading. I'm giving this book four stars, which to my Marchetta standards, really is rating it low. Don't get me wrong, four stars is still great. But there was one part of the book I didn't like which is too bad because it didn't happen until the very end. So really, I was enjoying this book for the most part and then, whammo! She killed it for me. There was no premonition that it was going to happen...it just did. I didn't buy Jacob's pile of rubbish bullshit for breaking up with her.

The thing is, no matter how angst-ridden, heart-wrenching, sobs-inducing her stories are, she'd still managed to give each one their happily ever after. This one sort of got her happy ending but not really.

Nonetheless, I love the way she writes the evolving stories of family, friendship and love in Australia (makes me want to pack up my family and move there!).