By: Laura Buzo
Genre: YA Contemproary
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Coffee Beans: 3/5
Cover: Plain-Jane, but
appealing
Instalove Factor: Not
present
My Personal Recommendation: Not
a bad way to spend your time
Disclaimer: I received this
book free from the publisher in exchange for this honest review
Publisher’s Summary
Love is awkward, Amelia should know.
From the moment she sets eyes on Chris, she is a goner. Lost. Sunk. Head over heels infatuated with him. It's problematic, since Chris, 21, is a sophisticated university student, while Amelia, 15, is 15.
Amelia isn't stupid. She knows it's not gonna happen. So she plays it cool around Chris—at least, as cool as she can. Working checkout together at the local supermarket, they strike up a friendship: swapping life stories, bantering about everything from classic books to B movies, and cataloging the many injustices of growing up. As time goes on, Amelia's crush doesn't seem so one-sided anymore. But if Chris likes her back, what then? Can two people in such different places in life really be together?
Through a year of befuddling firsts—first love, first job, first party, and first hangover—debut author Laura Buzo shows how the things that break your heart can still crack you up.
From the moment she sets eyes on Chris, she is a goner. Lost. Sunk. Head over heels infatuated with him. It's problematic, since Chris, 21, is a sophisticated university student, while Amelia, 15, is 15.
Amelia isn't stupid. She knows it's not gonna happen. So she plays it cool around Chris—at least, as cool as she can. Working checkout together at the local supermarket, they strike up a friendship: swapping life stories, bantering about everything from classic books to B movies, and cataloging the many injustices of growing up. As time goes on, Amelia's crush doesn't seem so one-sided anymore. But if Chris likes her back, what then? Can two people in such different places in life really be together?
Through a year of befuddling firsts—first love, first job, first party, and first hangover—debut author Laura Buzo shows how the things that break your heart can still crack you up.
My Review
This book had its moments. It was good, but in the end
rather un-impressionable and somewhat forgettable.
It’s about the Amelia, who’s just turned 16 and has fallen
in love with an older boy she works with, Chris. The thing is, it will never
work between them. Chris knows this, and Amelia knows this, but part of her
still holds out hope. And part of him is sort of interested.
I think what appealed to me most about this book was the
fact that the author was able to capture that part in a young girl’s life with
such realistic accuracy. Falling for the older guy, knowing nothing’s going to
come from it, but holding out hope for it anyway.
It’s told from two different points of view, Amelia’s and
Chris’, so we get both sides of a situation and what’s going on inside their
heads. In the end, you cheer for, somehow--beyond all socially accepted and
legal odds--that they would find a way to be together. But that’s not
realistic. The ending that the author wrote, however, is.
Happy reading, my friends!
--Me
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