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I must make a comparison to Sarah Dessen. Sarah Dessen's books deal with teenaged girls finding their way in the world while fixing some flaw or issue in their lives. Her books are consistently great - so consistently great that some say they are formulaic. I, for one, love Sarah Dessen. Maybe it's the romance maniac in me, or maybe I just love how she always amazes me with her writing. She's like that annoying kid in your AP English class who always picks up on the simile or metaphor before you...
Quick review for a quick read. I'll admit that Deb Caletti seems to draw me into her stories because her characters always feel very vivid and draw me in whenever I pick up a book by her. "The Story of Us" was a good read, if a bit convoluted in terms of the narration. In parts it worked, in others it didn't. It's the story of Cricket (a.k.a Catherine) - a young woman who's in between a number of different relationships and weights in her life. Her mother's getting married to Dan Jax (a man who'...
I want to start out by saying that the writing itself was great. She's a great writer. She kept me reading even though I found myself hating how the story felt way too dragged out, the boy part not the wedding part. And I didn't know what the hell was going on between her and her long time boyfriend, Janssen. I still don't think I do. The book is almost over before you learn the reason for the break. It seemed like there wasn't enough interaction with the other characters to me, with the excepti...
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I hated this ending. All this build-up was a let down. You could relate but no one spoke up. Geez, what a great relationship and an awful ending
So this book was given to me by a friend, and I was expecting a nice, light contemporary read. And it definitely was a light read! It was great to be reading while I was reading other intense books.BUT this book ended up being only about a 2.5-3 stars for me. I'm a little iffy on the exact rating.There were some great things about this book:1. I loved the letters that Cricket was writing to Janssen - especially all the lists about why dogs are amazing animals! It was a nice way to have almost li...
This story is constructed in an interesting way. We meet Cricket's family--her, her brother Ben, and their mother--in the present as they are all packing up to go to the beach where their mother is marrying Dan Jax, or so Cricket and Ben hope, since their mother has a habit of leaving her fiances hanging the closer the wedding comes. However, all of our exposition about the characters' histories is given to us through letters Cricket writes to her ex-ish-boyfriend and her brother's best friend,
After enjoying the powerful Stay, I eagerly picked up this latest release from Caletti, anticipating another great story (and hearing Taylor Swift in my head; I love this song!) Would this "look (sic) a lot like a tragedy now"?Well, sad to say this was most definitely not to my taste for many reasons. The premise I expected was a character narrating the romance and break-up with a guy. That's part of it with main character Cricket tracing her relationship with Janssen up to and past the awful th...
The Story of Us is about a girl named Cricket and we follow the story in her point of view as she encounters many changes in her life all in the course of one week. She has graduated high school and is going to college in the fall. She’s moving from her childhood home, due to her mother’s 4th engagement to a man named Dan, and they are getting married in one week. She’s also leaving behind her longtime boyfriend, who she doesn’t want to break up with but really has no choice. I must admit as soo...
Ugh, this book is terrible. The characters aside from the protagonist barely have one dimension, let alone more. She alternates being emo and mopey, and boringly annoying, while maintaining an aura of artificiality as a character. The book felt like a professional author didn’t write it. There is zero atmosphere-building. The chapters with her letters to her luv were inserted awkwardly and while it was a way to show her relationship with him, it helped slow down the pace of the book even more by...
another Cricket, uh? But this' one's a girl. Me likes the name, it'd be my third son's name, just after Milo and Rufus ;)
I probably should not have bothered to finish this. It was boring and not particularly well written. It's supposed to be YA, not Animal Planet.
Review Courtesy of Dark Faerie TalesQuick & Dirty: The Story of Us feels very personal, yet puts into words many things that people think about, but rarely voice.Opening Sentence: I found out something a out myself as all those boxes piled up: I hate change.The Review:The novel starts out with Cricket, who just graduated high school, moving away from her childhood home since her mother was remarrying. Cricket’s whole life seems to be changing since she is moving, starting the next chapter of her...
