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One Week (2012)

by Nikki Van De Car(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

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Romance

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Booktrope Editions

review 1: I downloaded this as an Amazon.com freebie and what a delightful surprise. The story centers around a young woman, Bee, whose father is well known in Hollywood. The father fixes her up got a date with a Hollywood hottie, Thom Derrek, which does not go well. Bee leaves her fathers house with just the clothes on her back. On a spur of the moment she decides to get on a train and head to New York. Bee meets a nice young man, Jess. Bee and Jess on their way to New York have several adventures and meet some very nice people.Jess and Bee form a close relationship which scares Bee. Jess feels protective and concerned about Bee. This is such an enjoyable story with great character development.
review 2: "For the record, my name isn't actually Bee . . . I realize ... morethat some might say that the name Bee isn't much of an improvement, but I was five and it got my point across. Someone messed with me, I stung them." Thus begins the 7-day journey with Bee, a sharp-tongued, quick-witted, spoiled Hollywood teen who has decided to run away from home not so much to find herself, but to get away from the "self" her fame-addicted father is trying to make her.Naive and annoyed, Bee finds herself boarding buses and trains and buses and trains, all in her attempt to make it to New York, where she imagines her life would be much improved, private, and full of dining out minus the paparazzi her dad constantly alerts when she goes out. But between her fear of her weird fellow travelers, disgust in finding there's no "first class" on busses, and her disbelief that she's left her home without anything useful in her bag beside her toothbrush, her only solace across the miles is some strange kid with black-dyed hair who is her sometimes friend (or is it boyfriend . . . ) and who she calls "Goth Geek" until she learns his name is Jess.With little money and even less confidence, the two travel toward New York encountering an array of colorful people along the way. Perhaps the most colorful are the people they themselves become on their journey. Bee grows from a snide, self-centered borderline brat into someone who resembles someone thoughtful, responsible, transparent. And Jess transforms from an morose kid struggling with a past mistake into one taking control of his future. Whether Bee and Jess can take their 7-day relationship together and make it last a lifetime, well, that's anyone's guess.I liked this book because it managed to be fresh among the many other coming of age, teen love stories flooding the market. I attribute its welcomed approach almost exclusively to Bee, her character, and mostly her voice. She's funny, a pain in the butt, full of vibrato, and ultimately unsure, a little scared, and wanting desperately to be seen and loved by her overbearing, attention-seeking father. I like Bee. She's complicated and interesting, and was enough for me to keep the pages turning and finish the read in an afternoon. less

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