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295 pages, Paperback
First published August 2, 2011
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“No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.”
I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.
“Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.”
“He was tortured, brilliant, funny, gay . . . basically my dream guy.”
“Even the gay part?” he said with the ghost of a smile—which for all I knew was what passed for hysterical mirth with this guy.
“Especially the gay part,” I said. “I’m weird that way. “
“How’s that working out for you?”
“I’m beginning to think it’s not a good long-term romantic strategy.”
“Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out.
And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.”
“You have a nickname, too?” he asked me.
“I could tell you, but then I’d have to shoot you,” I said apologetically.
He nudged Juliana’s elbow with his. “Will you tell me?”
“No way. She knows where I sleep.”
“Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents’ clout.”
Elise Benton moves with her family to California and with her sister Julliana continue their education to a new high school where their mother is the principle.There Juliana mets Chase and they immediately have a connection.Elise is forced to sit with her,Chase and Chase's friend Derek at lunch.Derek is a little hostile to everyone else and that makes Elise to dislike him and later refuse to go to the dance with him.She meets Webster and they start hanging out and he makes her believe Derek is the bad one between the two of them(reminds you any character?).Elise and Derek come closer when they realise that someone broke up Chase and Julliana's relationship.After that pretty much they start to become something more than friends(as you already have guessed,I guess).
I think everyone will enjoy this book(I know I did).The characters had a development,Elise stopped having prejudices and realised that everything is not what it seems and Derek stopped having so much pride and seeing in the other people that everyone wanted something from him or they hang out with him cause his parents are famous.The writing was very good and the book is definitely not a epic fail.