Rest of the Story

3.75 stars :)

Sarah Dessen never disappoints! I love reading her books because they put me in such a happy mood but her books always have such a sad story in them, my emotions are all over the place when reading them haha

My least favourite Dessen book but it still amaaaaazing!

Not to be mean but Emma Saylor wins the gold medal for dumbest Sarah Dessen protagonists, narrlowly beating out the one girl from Once and For All, which I didn't even think was possible.

A little more predictable than I'd expect, the main character was fully developed, but the side characters were a little more 2D.

Overall, a very different story than her others, which is welcome.

I did not like this.

Sarah Dessen has been pretty much hit or miss for me but this actually was r/im14anddeep personified into a book. I really didn't like the main character and we didn't spend NEARLY enough time on the secondary characters.

17 year old who acted like a bratty 14 year old.

Another strong effort by YA Queen Sarah Dessen. I really liked Emma and identified with her struggle to learn more about her late, alcoholic mother's life when she makes an unexpected summer visit to her family's lakeside home. There are numerous visit secondary characters, a swoony boy (he's the only one to get Emma's sense of humor - how perfect is that?), and a rich tourist/working class resident conflict slightly reminiscent of Dirty Dancing (without the dancing). Emma's father was a bit unrealistically overbearing, and the pacing flagged a bit in the last quarter, but those a minor quibbles in a very enjoyable summer read.