I’m a little torn about this book. While there were various aspects I loved, I don’t think I liked the main character. To be honest, when I start to question the book, I don’t think to examine the main character, yet here I am…
Title: Tell Me Three Things
Author: Julie Buxbaum
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release date: April 5, 2016
Genre: Young adult, contemporary, romance
Length: 328 pages (U.S. hardcover)
Synopsis: (from Goodreads) “Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week of junior year at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much-needed help?
It’s been barely two years since her mother’s death, and because her father eloped with a woman he met online, Jessie has been forced to move across the country to live with her stepmonster and her pretentious teenage son.
In a leap of faith—or an act of complete desperation—Jessie begins to rely on SN, and SN quickly becomes her lifeline and closest ally. Jessie can’t help wanting to meet SN in person. But are some mysteries better left unsolved?”
I am on the fence about this book. I debated between 3 and 3.5 stars, but I think I’ll just settle for the general “I liked it” consensus and give it 3 stars. Now…how to put into coherent words what I did and didn’t like? That’s always the question…haha.
Truthfully, the main reason I continued reading was I really wanted to find out who SN was. Jessie and her friends all had their own opinion on who it was, but I wasn’t convinced it was either of them. But in the end, SN definitely wasn’t who I thought it would! But damn straight, if it didn’t make me smile like a little girl.
