Forever

wish i read this as a j - ya level kid

This book is on the Banned Book display we have going on at the library right now so I decided to pick it up! I must say this book is great for anyone looking for a story about life, is your first love your best love? This book would be a great learning tool for anyone wanting to experience relationships and sex. This book promotes consent, addresses the responsibility that comes with being sexual active (like using contraception) and that the plot doesn't used sex = negative consequence. I recommend this book to responsible YA and up! Express your freedom to read and pick up a banned book this September! ~Ashley

One thing you must know is that this is my second time reading this whole book. Granted they were different editions, but I couldn't really tell the difference–besides the cover, of course.
The dialogue sort of gives you insight that the first edition was written in the seventies. Of course, I didn't actually belive that the first time I read the edition above. Katherine is pratical, but she's also somewhat of a romantic. Guess I should give you a heads-up now, before you read read it. There is some sexual content, very mild language–pretty much explains the seventies, doesn't it? But, hell, what do I know, I was born in the 90s. In fact, that's what makes it more cherishable to me, the book I mean.
Katherine's story is mostly about her experience and love relationship with her boyfriend, Micheal. It lacks, for me, a bit of depth between the characters' devotion for eachother, lacking emotion here and there. It is in first person but by the narration, it knid of makes me feel like it shouldn't be. Mostly because the characters in general play a big part in this one girl's first love experience. And at the first real challenge, first real seperation, where there was other people involved, makes Katherine question the difference between first love and true love? We all have our first love,–whatever and/or whoever it may be–does that mean you'll be together forever...
Recommended to all teens, all ages, because we should all be prepared–good Lord, I sound like my mother.