If He Had Been with Me

This waffles between a 2.5 and a 3 for me. I think it has strength in capturing the trickiness of figuring out who you are as a teen & the pull of doing what you really want versus what's acceptable or expected (or edgy). However, sometimes I felt like the character do not act like teenagers at all, especially the male main character.

Additionally, spoilers here- I don't love the way teen pregnancy is handled. It felt weirdly disconnected from the current times and almost romanticized in a way? Missed opportunities for discussions of safe sex and consequences of choices.

Also- I really dislike how it seems like we're supposed to blame “the other girl” for most of the bad in this book.

It's not an unpleasant read, I just kinda felt like it was meh.