You Say It First

m.c. 17/18

rating 2.5; i think i just wasn't in the mood for this story
also - not much happened ??

If you like argument and more arguments, sub-subplots, and toxic relationships, then this is the book for you.

Honestly this book started off so nice but ended so different from what I expected it to be. I expected cute, instead I got angry.

PROS
+I like reading Colby's POV more than Meg's, I felt like I connected to him more than Meg. Mostly because he works a minimum wage job and works in “poor” town, aspiring for more.
+I like that Meg phonebanks and is good at her job. We need more books about voting and the different ways to register.
+Tris, Colby's dog, is really cute and I like that she was a Pit Bull. We need more pets and Pit Bulls in YA.
+Colby's a virgin. It nice for the boy to be the inexperienced one for once.

CONS
-I'm still trying to figure out exactly why the two MC we're attracted when they first met. All of took was one phone call and suddenly they couldn't stop thinking of each other voices. It didn't make sense at all

-On that note, their entire relationship was infuriating. It was so toxic. They always picked a fight with each other and ONLY talked about politics. Barely anything else. They were BOTH so annoying and didn't deserve each other. I HATE their relationship.

-Colby had better relationship with his friend Joanna. She was the better and more healthy option. She was way more compassionate than Meg too. When Colby lied about his mother being sick, this was Joanna was compassionate. She even offered to give her soup. I wished they had gotten together even for a little bit.

-I couldn't stand Meg's friend Emily, she was kind of selfish and didn't put much on their friendship. I didn't feel like they were best friends.

-Meg was politics and nothing else. Everything to her had a political element. She even turned a conversation about a movie into a political fact. She had really no other personality outside of politics, no hobbies are mentioned. She even lied to her mother, drive 8 hours to a town she doesn't know, with a boy she doesn't know and be all feminist and tell everybody what to do and what they should care about. She was obnoxious, infuriating, and exactly why people don't like radical feminists today.

-the third person POV was a big weak point of the book. I didn't feel what the characters felt and there was more telling than showing. I don't see why at least one of the POV couldn't be in first person. Bad choice.

-and if IK hear the phrase ,”Nobody can pull the rug from under you if you decide the rug doesn't exist in the exist first place.” again... the phrase is repeated so many freaking times throughout the novel

I was gonna give this book three stars but as the book went on and the couple we're supposed to root for got into yet ANOTHER argument. I couldn't do it anymore. I didn't care about the characters and I certainly didn't care about their relationship, which by the way will not survive in the future, no what the ending implies.

Esto no va hacer una reseña porque lo único que tengo que decir es que:
El libro está bueno pero siento que le falto ESE algo para que me terminara de gustar. Además, siento que el final fue lindo pero a la vez ?¿? Pero dentro de todo para pasar el rato es buen libro, no se si entrara en mis favs de este año.

Meg knows exactly what she is doing and where she is going with her life, with a good boyfriend, a great best friend, plans to attend Cornell next year, and a part-time job registering voters at a call center. And then a call sends her to Colby in a small-town in Ohio, and everything changes.

I like the dynamics of the relationship between a liberal-minded, politically-minded young woman who comes from an affluent home with a young man from a working-class environment with conservative friends and family.