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Crash Test Love (2010)

by Ted Michael(Favorite Author)

4.25 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0385735804 (ISBN13: 9780385735803)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

review 1: I liked the book. It was a quick read, because once I started I didn't want to put it down. I read it and pictured it like a movie in my head. One of those unrealistic teen dramas. Henry is a player, crashes sweet sixteens, and doesn't get tied down. All of this changes when a girl named Garrett moves into town. All Garrett wants is to be a part of the J squad. But to do so, she has to make Henry fall for her, and then humiliate him by dumping him. The only thing I didn't like was Garrett's use of song titles at random points in the story.
review 2: I’ve read this book which really grabbed my attention and after the end, I felt like crying. Don't get me wrong, it was a really enjoyable book, but...I’ve seen some of the reviews afterwards which said that the... morey couldn’t connect with Garrett, who was one of the two main characters. I couldn’t, either. I think she was a stupid and annoying. (contains spoilers)What’s the book about? Well, there’s Henry - man-slut, typical shallow high school guy who loves to crash Sweet Sixteen parties. He doesn’t like for emotions to go in way of his life, hooking up with random girls. Then there’s Garrett - girl, who’s recently moved to Long Island from Chicago, where she left her best friend Amy and currently-ex-boyfriend Ben. Trying to fit in the place and find some friends, she meets up with J-squad, the pack of three most popular girls in school, who make a bet with her. She has to make Henry, who she accidentaly met on a party, fall in love with her and then dump him in front of everyone just to show him the heartbreak he made every girl go through.And when Garrett agreed to do this, that’s when I stopped liking her. At first, that was in no way her business. I knew that there was this rumor going around school that she hung out with Henry on the said party, but she claimed herself that she didn’t know who started it, him or his friends and still she agreed. I am, in no way, supportive of playing with other people’s emotions, even if they deserve it or not. I don’t think that she should play the God, decide whether he should suffer or pay for whatever he did.Well, Henry and Garrett then became friends and started to feel something more for each other. Henry was really such an ass at the beginning, but then you get to know him better and his backstory and what made him the guy he was and you learn that his emotional walls were built up by the departure of his mother, who left him and his dad suddenly to start a new life.And then there was Garrett. By that time, she was really getting on my nerves. He sacrificed everything for her, he tore down his walls, he opened up to her and told her that everybody leaves him and that stupid girl was still stupid enough to go on pretending that everything’s fine. She wanted to fit in so much that she threw away her building REAL strong friendship with Henry just to be a part of three shallow, ignorant girls who made her PROVE she’s worthy of their friendship. At the end, he found out she was using him to win a bet and she found out he made out drunk with one of the members of J-squad. But what she did was so much worse. She claimed she loved him, but that the thing she needs is to find herself and put herself above the needs of any other guy. And that was really a selfish thing to do. Henry was the one who helped her find herself, so for me, she just used him to be a fake friend of shallow girls, used him to feel better about herself and then dumped him, heartbroken.I don’t think she loved him. Because in no universe would someone do that. If she knew he is completely different and she felt something she’s never felt before, she would want to work hard on this. She wouldn’t let it just slip away like that, she would fight for it. But I guess she was just a weak character.I hated what she did to him, what the author made her did to him. Yes, he found himself, he stopped pushing everyone away and started to really feel, but I think Garrett broke him beyond repair. I think that they were meant to be, although she stated otherwise. She just didn’t want them to be more. And she hurt people in the process.I really, really hated her guts. I think she didn’t grasp the fact that you have to fight for something in your life, you can’t just wait for things to fall in your lap and she didn’t fight. She was like “oh, okay, I hurt him, he doesn’t deserve me” and she let it go, because she was too weak to hold on to what’s important. less

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