English language

Published June 25, 2013 by Simon Pulse.

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1 star (1 review)

At a party near the end of senior year, seventeen-year-old Simon Cross imagines his life with and without Cassie, the girl he has yearned for since they were freshman, and begins to discover the unpredictable wonders of life his best friends, Ben and Coop, have urged him to explore.

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So many awful stereotypes and tropes in one place.

1 star

Genuinely couldn't make myself enjoy this book. I liked the two-path writing, showing how events can be different; I just couldn't like the rest of it. There were far too many teenage movie tropes (which even the book itself was aware of because it made comments on that, and that felt wrong), the use of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope is something I almost always hate, the main character is actually more like an obsessive stalker than a person in love (and that should always be discouraged), and it was all just uncomfortable in so many ways.

Subjects

  • Interpersonal relations
  • Love
  • Dating (Social customs)
  • Parties
  • Gays
  • Fiction