He spoke to me again. Boys were like that. Even if it was only in my dreams. Lindsay Lohan kicking his butt on the sidewalk after he tried to take her picture pure fantasy. Amanda Bynes dressed as the highway patrol, pulling him over to give him a traffic ticket. I was jealous. Lo and behold, here was my dream.
About Sean: check. Blowing me off, as usual: noooooooo! Not again. Sean would be mine, starting today. I gave Mom on my beside table an okay sign—the wakeboarding signal for ready to go —before rolling out of bed.
My dad and my brother suspected nothing, ho ho. The morning air was already thick with the heat and humidity and the smell of cut grass that would last the entire Alabama summer. I liked the heat.
And I quivered in my flipflops at the prospect of another whole summer with Sean. In past years, any one of the three Vader boys, including Sean, might have shown up at my house at any time to throw the football or play video games with my brother. They might let me play too if they felt sorry for me, or if their mom had guilted them into it.
And my brother might go to their house at any time. Well, Adam was my friend. For the past nine months, with my brother off at college, my last tie to Sean had been severed. But I never approached him. He was always flirting with Holly Chambliss or Beige Dupree or whatever glamorous girl he was with at the moment. I was too young for him, and he never even thought of hooking up with me. On the very rare occasion when he took the garbage to the road at the same time I walked to the mailbox, he gave me the usual beaming smile and a big hug and acted like I was his best friend ever… for thirty heavenly seconds.
It had been a long winter. Finally we were back to the summer. The Vaders always needed extra help at the marina during the busy season from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Just like last year, I had a job there—and an excuse to make Sean my captive audience. I sped up my trek across the pine needles between the trees and found myself in a footrace against my brother. But anyways, I was also annoyed with the fact that Adam got controlling, Lori kept kissing Sean making Adam jealous and then Adam starts fooling around with another girl.
But after all the kissing and dissing, I'd have to say the story does all go well together, just some minor annoyance and some really stupid character decisions. I love Jennifer Echols, who knows just how to write YA romantic comedy. It's the kind of book where you just settle in and go along for the ride - which is a rollercoaster kind of ride - fun and funny and a little bit wild.
I loved Adam. I love how in touch with his emotions he is : haha. Lori is also very cool - definitely blonde, but in the best of ways. Like most rom-com's you kinda know who the guy is supposed to be and what the happy ending will involve, so the main fun is seeing how it all goes down.
Echols writes in such a way that keeps the pages turning. It has to be said - Echols is the queen of the make-out scenes. The second book, for me, felt a little endless. I just didn't buy the premise even though in this genre I will normally go along with most things the conflict felt a little contrived and I didn't have that sense of the stakes being raised in such a way that it kept me turning the pages.
Still, definitely a fun read and teens probably wont have the same frustrations as I did in the the second half had to remind myself who the intended audience was. While I'm here though - giving a shout out to Going Too Far - which earned a huge 5 stars from me : Echols is still up there as a fave of mine :.
Katie Prouty. This is a twofer Hello, cute neighbor boys! Vader brothers! Lori is one of the guys. So she plans on making Sean jealous by fake dating his younger brother Adam. Insert love triangle. There are SO many cute and fun moments: wakeboarding at the lake, piggy back rides, secret handshakes, learning how to drive a truck, and sharing a soda and cheese fries.
TBND was an adorable young adult summer read! Just prepare your heart for a roller coaster ride with some precious moments in between the mess. Jessica Smith. I bought this book on a whim before going on vacation since it looked like a nice read for sitting by a lake. The Boys Next Door first half was pretty good.
I would probably give it 3 and a half stars. However it was entertaining and pretty cute. Endless Summer was really a sort of unnecessary addition. It kinda ruined the whole thing for me to be honest, because I started to feel the urge to bash Lori's head in.
If you can enter into the mood of the book, it does have its moments of pleasure. But if insubstantial characters, no plot whatsoever, and a total lack of organising guideposts no chapters, for one thing bother you enormously, I would skip it.
I was also seduced by the Danish author, as I had just returned from Copenhagen without managing to find a book translated into English which appealed to me. View 1 comment. Eso es lo primero que tengo que decir. La novela es de cierta manera ese retrato juvenil, un recuerdo de verano en la piel. Esta ausencia abre las posibilidades para todos y lo cotidiano se transforma. A poignant and atmospheric look at the moment in life when everything is possible.
The book slip-slides like crazy through time, which I loved. Mar 05, dana rated it it was amazing. Jan 06, M. Usually "ethereal quality " would have mostly good connotations for me, but this just felt gauzy and intangible. Couldn't get much sense of story. Jul 12, Julia Alberino rated it it was ok Shelves: translations , around-the-world-challenge. I kept waiting for this book to live up to the hype in the letter that was sent to me from the publisher when I got my copy.
Unfortunately, for me, it never did. I was bored. I've noted before that I did not read the book in Danish, but in the excellent translation by Gaye Kynoch.
Goodreads finally let me switch to this edition for my list. On the plus side, some of the characters the mother; the boy who might be a girl; Lars are interesting and I kept reading to find to what would happen to t I kept waiting for this book to live up to the hype in the letter that was sent to me from the publisher when I got my copy.
On the plus side, some of the characters the mother; the boy who might be a girl; Lars are interesting and I kept reading to find to what would happen to them. In my opinion, the author tried to do too much in too few pages and it was sometimes hard to keep track of whose story was being told at which time.
The book has been well-reviewed, so I guess it just wasn't my kind of novel. Mar 30, Justus rated it really liked it. With a title like this and an opening sentence that goes "The young boy, who is perhaps a girl, but does not yet know it" and you can be forgiven for thinking this is going to be a transgender teenage summer-love coming of age story.
It's not that. It wasn't that long again that I railed about "literary" books that think extremely long sentences and paragraphs along with little or no dialogue are a key ingredient to Literature, so it is somewhat surprising how much I liked this, given that Madame With a title like this and an opening sentence that goes "The young boy, who is perhaps a girl, but does not yet know it" and you can be forgiven for thinking this is going to be a transgender teenage summer-love coming of age story.
It wasn't that long again that I railed about "literary" books that think extremely long sentences and paragraphs along with little or no dialogue are a key ingredient to Literature, so it is somewhat surprising how much I liked this, given that Madame Nielsen often does the same though, not to quite the same extent as in Old Rendering Plant. And the day passes, as the day always passes, the mother goes out to her horse somewhat later than usual , the little brothers play, argue, fight, the four youngsters laze about The setup: a single mother and her teenage daughter and two younger sons.
A new boyfriend moves in with them. Two hitchhikers from Spain? A crowded house of, what is that? But the whole book is really just an excuse to get brief life stories of all the people -- these eight and several of those they come in contact with -- who meet during this "endless summer".
What holds all of them together is the recurring theme of missed potential in one's life. The boy who is maybe a girl The husband who inherits a fortune and squanders by mismanaging the vast, country estate he buys. The mother who has a brief summer fling of incredible passion The nextdoor neighbor golden boy -- handsome, smart, charismatic -- who is so full of ennui that even he's dying of AIDS he doesn't really mind. What makes all this work for me is that each of these little life stories is small enough to be touching without wearing out its welcome.
In another, different, book the author would have the cut the cast of characters in half but tripled the page count and worn us down with tedious details of these lives. No, said the mother, people are like that.
One flaw is the characters are always kept at a bit of a remove. It sometimes veers close to just being a bloodless biography of the characters -- you can see some reviews felt it went too far in that direction and they never connected with any of the characters. I didn't connect either but I'm not sure "connecting" was the goal. Madame Nielsen gives us a taste of that but also gives us a dozen stories of that potential never amounting to much.
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