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La Cienega Just Smiled (2011)

by Leslie DuBois(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0983522022 (ISBN13: 9780983522027)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Little Prince Publishing

review 1: Nothing Else Matters is a story that evokes a lot of emotions while you read it. Reyna and Scott are best friends, have been since they first met. Scott's mother is a racist and is just too much to stomach. Scott's mother doesn't seem to love or care anyone. All she wants is to make her son into the best athlete ever. She wants him to get to the Olympics and win the gold medal she never did. She has another son who she doesn't get along with. As a mother, character she's just dispicable. Scott is someone who is sweet but he has let his mother manipulate his life until he gets sick. Scott means well but he has never learn to stand up to his mother. Guess he's trying to win her love by doing everything she wants. He dates a lot but has always been in love with just one perso... moren. He just knows his mother won't approve so he has never taken a chance. Reyna is out to change the world by helping everyone she can. She lost her mother as a child and suffer from insomnia. She loves her best friend Scott but refuses to be someone else he dates and sleeps with. Reyna is very smart and since her mother died she has studied medicine and every kind of rare disease there is. She knows Scott like no one else and knows when he is sick. She gets him to go to the doctor but they are torn apart for a bit by racial tensions in school after someone in the school hangs a very demeaning banner after the president is elected. This is story that can't be read without feeling something. It's not your typical happy story that has its ups and down and then everyone ends up living happily ever after. It's why probably a lot of people don't like it. This is a story that makes you think. I highly recommend it.
review 2: Once again an amazing book from this author. It starts out as a regular ya book with the kind of young adults you basically expect but it then takes a turn into incredibly driven young adults who are faced with major life decisions, racial intolerance along with learning their self worth and a deeper love. There were a few laughs and tears and some excellent characters in an emotional moving story. less

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