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Te Vas Sin Decir Adiós (2014)

by Sarah Dessen(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Maeva Young

review 1: This is one of Sarah Dessen's many YA contemporaries, and I have to say I was not as interested in this one as the other novels by Sarah--at first. My favorites range from The Truth About Forever to Along For The Ride. The thing I like most about Sarah's novels are the writing. She just knows when to pull a heartstring, and to make you question your decisions about life, and just shows us how her characters are similar to us in real life.This book shows us the protagonist, Mclean, go through a divorce that split up her parents to entirely different worlds. She decides to go with her dad and his job to go around from place to place fixing up restaurants going down in shambles, and make them like new again. Each time they move, she finds something small to change, like her n... moreame. From Mclean to Eliza (short for Elizabeth--her middle name). Then she puts a new personality to that name and lives a life where she can pretend. Eliza-the preppy girl. Lizbet--the drama queen. Beth--the student council. And then when she was about to become Liz, she got stuck with Mclean in her current new town. There she meets a boy (Dave--neighbor) and makes new friends. Her life there seems to not find its place yet as she navigates through this new place, trying to figure out who she is in that town. But as Dave and friends start to grow on her, she puts down roots in a place she thought she would soon leave behind.Her dad tries to revive the current restaurant he was assigned to "rebuild" and her mom lives with her stepdad, the basketball coach, and two younger siblings. Mclean doesn't want to meet or talk to her mom again after what she did to make her family fall apart. But as time slowly moves forward, we see that Mclean finally accepts what happened and that not everything has been changed and forgotten.This particular book by Sarah seemed to start off a bit slow, and didn't drag me in as quickly as her other well known novels. Though the premise of the novel (with bits of food and travel references) and the character developments within every Dessen novel intrigued me to read this book and finally finish it. Overall, I liked it.This book was a good read, and I recommend this to readers who like books that are realistic fiction/YA/contemporary/chick-lit/romance/etc.
review 2: 2 1/2 stars, rounding up because it is cute even though it was massively predictable. This is only my second Sarah Dessen book and I think I have her formula down already. 1 teenage girl from a broken home, 1 identity crisis, lots of bad assumptions and misunderstandings on her part1 cute boy next door, friendship with boy next door who wants more, and eventually gets it in the end1 small, side plot adult "friendship" that ultimately blooms into a relationship1 slightly eccentric, high stress, over caffeinated characterat least 1 dramatic event caused by main character making said bad assumptionsand a not-super-sweet happy ending or concrete finish to the characters stories that makes you want to strangle the authorI'm hoping not all her novels are as similar in plot and character development. I pretty much had this one figured out after chapter 3. (Though, I did expect Dad to stay and help run the restaurant and not actually take the other job.) less

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