I won't go into too much detail here, but I love Sarah Dessen's books - I think she writes some of the most honest and self-aware teen fiction out there. Her stories are always fairly similar (new relationship with outcasty boy helps young woman grow up, surrounding various personal issues), but they ring true and I enjoy them.This one wasn't one of her best, I have to say. Especially following on the heels of Lock and Key, which was excellent. It was a fairly interesting story of an overachieving student who comes out from under the influence of her family and learns to be herself over the course of a summer (isn't it always?), but it didn't really give me too much new. That said, her characters were, as usual, real in their dimensions, and not dumbed down for kids.
Overall, fun but I wouldn't break into Chapters in a ravenous frothing mass or anything. 3 obsessive grad students trying to seduce their prof out of 5.
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