It follows a fifteen year old girl who is six foot tall and feels very awkward about it. Hey dad is getting married again after cheating on her mom. Her sister is also getting married. And the world ends up just falling apart on her. But then get sister's ex-boyfriend confess into town and is the only person who seems to be listening to her instead of The Bride.
The story goes on... And it takes forever to get there. The exposition is soooooo long. I got to page 70, bored for most of the way, and skimmed for most of the rest of the 130 pages of the book looking only really at the dialog that happened. It was so long winded. On more than one occasion am entire paragraph took up more than a single page.
Will I was sad for her situation, I found I didn't really care for Haven at all. For at least the first quarter of the book, Haven said maybe 20 lines of dialog. Maybe? Her sister was annoying and somehow we are supposed to like her because "she's right" at the end. Her mom was probably the one that seemed the most real, but even she seemed to be on the flat side.
Then the over arching theme-ish thing was not very well done. The were many examples of it, but it just felt, again, flat to me. It was too simple and while Haven saw it in the lives of others, she never actually enlightened it herself. Sure she probably had a crush on Sumner back then at age ten or twelve, but I don't think her situation fits.
Ugh, I was disappointed. Sarah Dessen's books do get much better later on, but this was probably get poorest on I've read. Which mean she has become a much better writer through practice and experience.
Read her others, not this one.
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