Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
Publication Date: April 5th, 2016.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
“Perfect days are for people with small, realizable dreams. Or maybe for all of us, they just happen in retrospect; they’re only now perfect because they contain something irrevocably and irretrievably lost.”
“Last night, we IM’d so late, I fell asleep with my computer on my lap and woke to his words dinging on my screen. Three things, he said: (1) good morning, (2) I have keyboard marks on my face. slept on the “sdfg.” (3) you leave in 24 hours, and I’m going to miss you.”
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?
This book undeniably reminds me of those butterflies I had during those high school years back in the day. Such rush on the very first date, everytime going to school just wanting to look good so as not to give any bad impressions. Such young love. Everyone’s had their shares of crushes and getting heartbroken over boys and girls was certainly inevitable during those times.
Julie Buxbaum undoubtedly nailed on making the characters alive. Despite it being a young adult novel, like most young adults’ I read, it was far from being cheesy and cringy, I tell you. I love how adorable Jessie and SN’s three things were. Their connection with each other, how they are closely related to each other, and the fact that SN was always there through her ups and downs, it just felt genuine, I don’t even know how to put it.
And not to mention the twist!! Oh my God, I love how she twisted the whole story up but I can say that I hate it at the same time too cause it just made my curiosity in regards to who SN really was even bigger than it already was!
All in all, I really love the ending! It just couldn’t be better. What To Say Next, is totally a book I look forward to reading. I am certain that this book is just as good as this was.
