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Have you ever just stared at the ceiling for a straight 10 minutes after reading a book, contemplating its ending? Well, this book does that to you because it is beautiful.At first you'd probably look at it as another Young-Adult High School cliché love story about a boy who meets a girl and he falls deeply in love. But it's more than that, it's not just about love, it's about life itself and the things that change how you see it. A friend read this book before I did and she was disappointed at how ordinary it was, but two days later she told me that she was wrong. What's so good about it is how Robyn Schneider used to the whole book for character development and connects all loose ends at the end. She definitely made a funny and heartbreaking story all in one book. Amazing! I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is lost and young in this wonderful and terrifying world we live in. And! I love how there are a lot of references to Gatsby and Harry Potter. Robyn Schneider is a great story-teller!
I did enjoy this book but not in a pure, I can't put this down, kind of way. There were a lot of things that didn't make sense for me. I don't know who the audience of this book is, or who would see themselves in it's pages. Not a popular jock, who would be like who cares about this former popular jock, or a nerd- who wouldn't care to read the words of a once popular jock. The portrayal of girls as kind of messed up and shallow wouldn't exactly make me recommend it to them either. The apex of the plot especially, where a tragedy I thought might bring the characters closer together pushes them apart. Maybe it's realistic by being kind of fizzly at the end of the story, but the fizzle is not very poignant or interesting. I don't feel like this book actually taught me anything, and even the big ideas are inconsistent. What does the panopticon honestly have to do with anything at all in this book? It is not tied together well.
A great YA read -- using for book discussion group at school.