¡3.5 estrellas! Este libro, Una Noche Para Recordar de Sarah Dessen, fue súper lindo y me encantó cómo era mitad romance y mitad historia de madurez y vida cotidiana. La razón por la que le di 3.5 estrellas es porque sentí que se movía un poco lento en algunas partes. Si el libro hubiera sido unas 100 páginas más corto, creo que sería una lectura de 4 o 4.5 estrellas. ¡Pero es una lectura de verano perfecta! Y estoy emocionada por ver la película.

Lo que más me gusta de las novelas de Sarah Dessen es la facilidad y la naturalidad con la que me transporto a una época más joven, una época despreocupada. Cuando las preocupaciones de adulto se olvidan y el amor joven es lo único que importa. *Suspiro.*Sin embargo, he notado que las novelas de Sarah Dessen son muy formulistas. A ver, lo entiendo: si algo funciona, ¿para qué cambiarlo? Y aunque me he acostumbrado a sus historias y me siento cómodo con ellas, me gustaría que de vez en cuando rom...

Leer a Sarah Dessen es como entrar a una tienda con aire acondicionado después de un día caluroso y húmedo bajo el sol. Leer a Sarah Dessen también es como beber un batido helado después de un maratón largo y agotador. Y, finalmente, leer a Sarah Dessen es como comer comida reconfortante: siempre sabes lo que vas a obtener, un gusto delicioso y satisfactorio.Auden acaba de terminar su último año de instituto y espera pasar el verano como de costumbre: quedándose en casa y estudiando, mientras oc...

Incluso más que John Green, Sarah Dessen repite los mismos elementos argumentales una y otra vez:1. UN VERANO,2. UNA CHICA ADOLESCENTE MAYOR QUE ESTÁ REPRIMIDA DE ALGUNA MANERA -- secretos familiares, secretos personales, expectativas de otros, su propio cinismo o necesidad de control3. CONOCE A UN GRUPO DE PERSONAS PECULIARES -- familia lejana, una banda de rock, compañeros de trabajo, un nuevo grupo de amigos4. INCLUYENDO UN CHICO INUSUAL -- generalmente artístico de alguna manera5. HACE ALGO ...

3.5 stars ”Maybe it’s true, and being a girl could not be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.” Although the story was a bit slow, it was written nice and easy. I really liked the premise and the characterization of AudenShe grew up under the strict tutelage of her intimidating, condescending mother while her barely visible dad always manages to escape his daddy roles in the guise of perfecting his craft in writing. I ...

Peoples, this book ain’t worth it.Number one: THERES NO PLOT. LITERALLY NONE. This author was all like, ‘oh let’s put a normal teenage girl who has low self esteem!’ AHEM.BASICALLY HOW ALL CONTEMPORARY NOVELS GO.And let’s not forget about that boy! Of course Dessen went for the typical approach. Meaning- BIKER DUDENow, see I thought it’d be some great guy who’s hot and sports a six pack and all..basically my dream guy in every book.DA HELL TO THE NO.This dude.......*restrains from wanting to str...

And the award for my most vanilla book of 2016 goes to...I think I get it now. The whole appeal with Sarah Dessen and the million or so romance books she's churned; she's no Stephanie Perkins but reading her work is just so easy. Or at least this one was, my first one yet.But more than easy, it was boring. Mundane. Unexciting. VANILLA.Just like vanilla ice cream, it's enough to have me gobbling it up in one go, but doesn't quite manage to leave a satisfied mark like chocolate would. (Of course, ...

not the best sarah dessen, but, you know, not the worst.there's kind of an interesting exploration of feminism and female gender identity in here??? which is not exactly what you'd expect. like, when this book started out by describing the protagonist's mom with this paragraph: "She was an expert on women in literature but didn't much like them in practice. Partly, it was because so many of them were jealous," going on to describe her unbeliiiiiieeeeevable intelligence, success, beauty, and rock...

Cross-posted from my blog review . Auden is your classic overachiever: she’s studious and entirely too serious. What’s more, she deprived herself of a normal high school experience—one with friends and fun—opting instead for the academic route. Which did indeed work, because she got into a great university, the one she’d be attending come August. In the meantime, there is the whole summer stretching before her, and suddenly, spending it at home with her holier-than-thou, my-feminism-is-better...

This is pure Sarah Dessen. It's a comfort to read her work, because you know you are going to come away with something to think about. I'm afraid I didn't like this one as much as the others. It's because well... it feels a little like I'm reading the same story. Tons of others have mentioned it, but she seems to be sticking to a very strict formula. Which I wouldn't mind too much if the characters didn't seem so similar. They all are so reserved and issue driven. One of the reasons I think that...