Helpful Score: 6
This was a wonderful book. Could be very true for some teenagers these days. Shows the strength of a friendship meant to last. I love how there are happy times and sad times all woven together beautifully in this book. I highly recommend this book.
Helpful Score: 3
I loved this book, If you didn't know this is one of the books used to make the movie How to Deal. But I find in this book that Halley is much smarter than she was in the movie but then again Macon is more of a jerk.
Helpful Score: 3
wonderful coming of age story...gave much insight as to what teens are facing today at school, in their frienships and extra activities.
Helpful Score: 1
Such a sad and good good book.
Helpful Score: 1
One of the best books ever! I gave up a Friday night to stay in and read this book. I cried, laughed, and cheered with this book. Everybody should read this book about love, loss, and life.
Helpful Score: 1
Very nice story. A really easy read
Helpful Score: 1
Excellent book for young teens.
Helpful Score: 1
i really liked this book.short,entertaining read
Helpful Score: 1
Coming of age story of two girls whose friendship is tested by pregnancy, romance, and teenage issues. Quick read but a good story. I'd wished you learned a little more about the characters in the "future" but otherwise enjoyable. Good rec. for a teenage daughter or niece.
Helpful Score: 1
One of my favorite things about Sarah Dessen is how realistic she can be when it comes to how it felt to be a teenager. Its something that I think we tend to forget as adults, but reading one of her books really brings me back to how it all was. In fact, I would say that any parent to a teenage girl would be wise to pick up some Dessen as a method to better understanding their daughter.
Although Scarletts pregnancy is certainly an important part of this book, the story is shown from Halleys perspective. This gives a great insight into what its like for a teenager going through a lot of different things high school is hard enough when everything is as normal as possible, let alone dealing with your best friend being pregnant, and having your first relationship with a bad boy.
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Although Scarletts pregnancy is certainly an important part of this book, the story is shown from Halleys perspective. This gives a great insight into what its like for a teenager going through a lot of different things high school is hard enough when everything is as normal as possible, let alone dealing with your best friend being pregnant, and having your first relationship with a bad boy.
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Book was awesome, really goes through not only the topics that face teenagers but also tries to help with the solutions.
on page 65 there is a error. it saya "And landed right at out feet." Im pretty sure its supposed to be our* feet.
this is one of the greatest books I've ever read. I love all of Sarah Dessen's books, she's definitely a young adult author to look forward to.
Scarlett makes this book unable to be put down.
I really enjoyed this, although it was more of a revisit with my high school days than I normally seek out for reading material. I was very impressed with both the writing and the characterizations. A quick, enjoyable read which I would recommend to anyone who's ever gone to high school.
Someone Like You is a journey between two friends, Halley and Scarlett. The story is narrated by Halley, who is a high school student that lives a fairly strict life. Her father is the morning DJ at a local radio station and her mother is a family therapist who specializes in dealing with teenagers, too bad it doesn't mean that she is excellent with dealing with her daughter. In the beginning, Halley takes a phone call at camp from her friend Scarlett. Scarlett tells Halley that Michael, Scarlett's boyfriend, was killed in a motorcycle accident. This pulls Halley back home to take care of Scarlett. Michael's death springs on a lot of changes in both Scarlett's and Halley's lives.
Scarlett ends up being pregnant with Michael's baby. She decides to keep the baby. This pulls her relationship with Halley closer as Halley becomes the birthing buddy and they go to doctor's appointments, birthing classes, etc. together. Scarlett's pregnancy is big news around school because she was not the kind of girl that pregnancy was expected from. Scarlett becomes the strong one that keeps everything together through the novel. Even though she is pregnant, and clearly not a role model for young ones, her resolution and level-headedness throughout the story keep Halley in line and give the novel a positive motherly figure.
Halley, on the other hand, turns to a rebellion that was unlike her. She pushes against her very controlling mother and begins to date Macon, Michael's old best friend and the school's rebel. Halley begins to experiment with life on the wrong side of what her parents approve of. She questions when to lose her virginity, as many girls do at her age. She feels like she is in love with Macon, but is worried that he doesn't love her. Macon drives a wedge between Halley and her parents because her parents feel that he is a bad influence on her. In reality, I think he is just giving her a chance to explore other parts of herself. Halley and Macon's relationship is consistently on rocky ground because he is pushing her to have sex, and she is struggling to fight off that temptation. This of course leads to more issues and Halley is forced into finding out what really matters to her.
This was not one of my favorite Sarah Dessen books, but it was written very well. She has a way of drawing the reader into her characters and relating the stories to all of us regardless if we have been in those situations or not. Someone has said that you can hear a story about something that you were not at, but it was described so well that it becomes a story of your own. It's as if you were there participating in the event and you can share that story and elaborate upon it just like someone that truly was there. Dessen gives the reader the story in that way. The reader becomes such a part of it that they can then share themselves in the same manner. Someone Like You reminds me of the days in which I was in high school observing those around me. The only thing that I didn't particularly care for was the fact that the teenage pregnancy was played off as if it was completely normal. Towards the end it is somewhat seen as a bad thing, but overall I think it almost encourages the behavior. As a teacher, I have a hard time with that type of promotion in any sense. The pregnancy is never talked about as if it was a bad mistake by anyone other than a parent. What about Scarlett's problems? I guess I'd like to know what happens to Scarlett after the birth of the baby and then see if I still feel the same way.
Scarlett ends up being pregnant with Michael's baby. She decides to keep the baby. This pulls her relationship with Halley closer as Halley becomes the birthing buddy and they go to doctor's appointments, birthing classes, etc. together. Scarlett's pregnancy is big news around school because she was not the kind of girl that pregnancy was expected from. Scarlett becomes the strong one that keeps everything together through the novel. Even though she is pregnant, and clearly not a role model for young ones, her resolution and level-headedness throughout the story keep Halley in line and give the novel a positive motherly figure.
Halley, on the other hand, turns to a rebellion that was unlike her. She pushes against her very controlling mother and begins to date Macon, Michael's old best friend and the school's rebel. Halley begins to experiment with life on the wrong side of what her parents approve of. She questions when to lose her virginity, as many girls do at her age. She feels like she is in love with Macon, but is worried that he doesn't love her. Macon drives a wedge between Halley and her parents because her parents feel that he is a bad influence on her. In reality, I think he is just giving her a chance to explore other parts of herself. Halley and Macon's relationship is consistently on rocky ground because he is pushing her to have sex, and she is struggling to fight off that temptation. This of course leads to more issues and Halley is forced into finding out what really matters to her.
This was not one of my favorite Sarah Dessen books, but it was written very well. She has a way of drawing the reader into her characters and relating the stories to all of us regardless if we have been in those situations or not. Someone has said that you can hear a story about something that you were not at, but it was described so well that it becomes a story of your own. It's as if you were there participating in the event and you can share that story and elaborate upon it just like someone that truly was there. Dessen gives the reader the story in that way. The reader becomes such a part of it that they can then share themselves in the same manner. Someone Like You reminds me of the days in which I was in high school observing those around me. The only thing that I didn't particularly care for was the fact that the teenage pregnancy was played off as if it was completely normal. Towards the end it is somewhat seen as a bad thing, but overall I think it almost encourages the behavior. As a teacher, I have a hard time with that type of promotion in any sense. The pregnancy is never talked about as if it was a bad mistake by anyone other than a parent. What about Scarlett's problems? I guess I'd like to know what happens to Scarlett after the birth of the baby and then see if I still feel the same way.
As a teen I could not put it down. It was amazing and held my attension. I would recomend this to all.
I enjoyed some of Dessen's books in the past, so I thought I'd give this one a try. It sucked me in big time. It was a refreshingly real look at the struggle that teen girls face dealing with pressure from guys, pressure to drink, and pressure to be who their parents want them to be. I was tempted to knock some sense into Halley partially through the book, luckily Scarlett did it for me. Encouraging book, complete with happy ending, but I'm not going to lie and say the whole story was happy. Life's struggles aren't happy. Definitely worth reading though.
Another great review from my prolific reader. She has four or five books by Sarah Dessen and so far the two she read are five star books! There is good character build and the stories are very enjoyable. Happy reading!
Great book! Fast read! Amazing!
I recently finished reading this book and I enjoyed it. It was a quick, easy read and was quite entertaining. If you enjoy teen novels, or any of Sarah Dessen's books then i highly reccomend that you read this.
I really liked the book. It is a typical teenage story but with its little details that make it unique. The beginning is not that what you would call interesting but the end is amazing. I would definitely recommend this book.
