A truly wonderful story! The characters are incredibly well developed and the chemistry between Sana and Jamie is electric. The use of poetry throughout the story as a plot device and to set the mood for scenes is especially impressive.
One of the things I found most effective in the story is one of the aspects many reviewers seem to dislike the most: the cheating storyline. Like it or not, things like that happen in life. It isn't often that you find a YA story that handles that type of storyline, either with the main characters OR with the main character's parents, well. I felt that this novel handled both of them well, with one impacting the other, and portrayed Sena's actions accurately. She made errors in judgement; she allowed peer pressure to influence the level of trust she put in Jamie; and her upbringing and tendency to avoid conflict, at least that is how I perceived it, prevented her from keeping the situation from spiraling out of control once she realized how massive her mistake had been. (Not that Jamie was blameless either... her actions contributed to the situation as well.)
I was particularly impressed with the depiction of Sena's parents relationship. It gave the story a cross-cultural aspect that many readers might have trouble identifying with. The decisions made by Sena's mother are not the decisions most American or European women would make if faced with the same situation, though, frankly, her behavior isn't that different from the way things were for women in aristocratic and upper class families world wide for the majority of the past few centuries. Putting the needs of family first isn't that odd. It is just more firmly ingrained in some cultures than others.
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This is a book that I've wanted to read for years but I let the negative reviews on Goodreads stop me from picking this up. It just seemed like everyone had an some sort of issue with it but now that I've read the book, I'm honestly scratching my head wondering why?! Is this book the most perfect book? No and, neither are the characters but it talks about so many important things and is so realistic and relatable and so *important* that I think people are letting the little things control the reading experience when this book is so much more than that.This book deals with a topic that we all hate: cheating. And honestly, it's messy. I can't say that I love the choices that these characters made, because I didn't. But I can say that I understand them.I think this photo excerpt from the author's note really encapsulates what this book is aboutSo read this book! Because it's important and it's deals with ugly decisions and messy teenage feelings and I think it can make us think about things that are often brushed aside. I especially think this is an important book for teenagers to have in their hands.
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This is a book that I've wanted to read for years but I let the negative reviews on Goodreads stop me from picking this up. It just seemed like everyone had an some sort of issue with it but now that I've read the book, I'm honestly scratching my head wondering why?! Is this book the most perfect book? No and, neither are the characters but it talks about so many important things and is so realistic and relatable and so *important* that I think people are letting the little things control the reading experience when this book is so much more than that.
This book deals with a topic that we all hate: cheating. And honestly, it's messy. I can't say that I love the choices that these characters made, because I didn't. But I can say that I understand them.
I think this photo excerpt from the author's note really encapsulates what this book is about
So read this book! Because it's important and it's deals with ugly decisions and messy teenage feelings and I think it can make us think about things that are often brushed aside. I especially think this is an important book for teenagers to have in their hands.
This book deals with a topic that we all hate: cheating. And honestly, it's messy. I can't say that I love the choices that these characters made, because I didn't. But I can say that I understand them.
I think this photo excerpt from the author's note really encapsulates what this book is about
So read this book! Because it's important and it's deals with ugly decisions and messy teenage feelings and I think it can make us think about things that are often brushed aside. I especially think this is an important book for teenagers to have in their hands.
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