This series is beautiful and devastating, somehow making me laugh and cry, tugging at my heartstrings in the best way.

The next few lines are spoilers for the end of the book, but I can't in good conscience not mention something that is so deeply problematic to me: Audrey and Harry's relationship is very off again, on again, and what finally kills it is when she found out that he got a blow job by a girl Audrey was jealous of, and they split up. I had been looking forward to this book coming out since the summer when I read Holly’s extract in Hannah Witton’s book ‘Doing It’. Amber goes to America to work at a camp with her mother and encounters her own troubles with guys as well as a difficult relationship struggle between herself and her mother. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.There is a new Holly Bourne book coming out in October but and I’m actually going to the launch event at Waterstones Piccadilly which includes a copy of the book! The first in a duology, this tome holds some of the best description I’ve ever read with such brilliantly constructed characters. Special thanks to NetGalley and HMH Books for a Young Readers for sharing this powerful ARC with me in exchange my honest review. While in her other books the stories were just normal - as boring and predictable -, here the normality is a positive thing: Audrey is a normal girl with almost-normal problems, and she falls for Harry, a boy with normal problems; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That was the moment a piece of my heart broke off and got thrown into his, where it would lodge for ever.

But I don’t think that justifies being happy when she gets insulted for no reason when she’s actually being pretty decent and friendly. reading is an escape for me - it's for me to forget about the pains of my own life, the burdens that I may be trying to avoid, and find the happiness of love with characters that I let into my life. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone, but I am curious to see why people love it so much if anyone wants to share that with me. Audrey is your average girl, she has a lot going on in her life, she's just broken up with Milo, she doesn't know where she stands with her friends, doesn't really get any support from her dad or brother and we see her life played out over a few months. I think the book portrays him quite well, his appeal (charm, mixed in with him being total crap) is clear.

She's just gone through her first breakup, she's seen her parent's divorce, she's read all the books and watched all the movies. With fantastic chemistry between the two protagonists (who I knew I would be rooting for from their first meeting! Escritura brillante, una trama original que se burla con cinismo de las películas románticas, y un final inesperado hacen de este uno de los mejores YA contemporaneos que he leído. I guess I did even though the main purpose of the book is to contradict everything about romantic movies. It’s time for another Holly Bourne book, and if you’ve been following along my reviews, then you know what to expect by now: incisive, excellent narration from a teenage girl who is at a turning point in her life, some kind of crisis moment, and a lot of honest discussions about mental health, sex, romance, and friendship.

The subjects are pretty much the same - friendship, love, problems with parents, feminism -, but there is something new and fresh in her narrative style, something better. Bourne acknowledges the complicated realities of being a teenage girl on the cusp of adulthood, portrays all the stresses and obligations a young adult must weigh even as she tries to figure out her feelings about friends and lovers.

against the father who left you and doesn’t realize you quit the one thing that made you happy, then when can you?