First 30% - while not so interesting in itself, it does hint at an engaging story and succeeds in drawing you in
30%- 70% - Feel like this is a 4 star read
70%-90%- ohkay?? Or not.
last 10%- Was this the end or do I somehow have only the first part of the book and there's a whole second part left? ( )

First 30% - while not so interesting in itself, it does hint at an engaging story and succeeds in drawing you in
30%- 70% - Feel like this is a 4 star read
70%-90%- ohkay?? Or not.
last 10%- Was this the end or do I somehow have only the first part of the book and there's a whole second part left? ( )

A little slow at times but still a compelling and interesting story about a teenage girl working to figure out who she is and where she belongs. I feel like this is a bit of a hidden gem of queer YA fiction. I read it way back at the beginning of high school but I hardly ever hear it talked about. Some of the plot points are outdated (the food delivery service that functions via walkie talkies for example) but

To be continued i have to get off this bus and go to work... ( )

Could've been a fascinating story of the two main (well, I say "main", but what do we know of Kate other than how she's hot and wears nice clothes?) characters figuring out who they were and what their relationship could become … but it really didn't seem to make much of an effort to get there. It featured a handful of half-formed characters, trailed along multiple vaguely interesting but confused storylines, and then sort of petered out towards the end, with the climax squeezing itself in and then… nothing… really… resolving? In almost two hundred pages, I feel like the book never really manages to say anything. Which is a shame, considering it's potential. ( )

Damn. ?áAre ppl who are gay *still* made to feel like outcasts? ?áNobody I know would be uncomfortable to admit that they're gay, or to learn that a friend is. ?áAnd yet, this book isn't all that old....

Well, anyway, if a teen still needs assurance/ support, they could do worse than to read this. ?áI particularly liked it because Lissa is not particularly *adorable* - instead of fitting the stereotype found in all the other YA queer books I've read, she is 'normal' in the sense that her realization that she is gay is only one of the things she's thinking about & dealing with. ?áIn fact, at first I didn't esp. like her, and almost stopped reading. ?áBut as she figures herself out, and matures, and as we get to know her better, she becomes more appealing.

I like that the theme of knowing, and being true to, oneself is present in many characters. ?áLissa's little sister is a bit of a construct to fit a role, but I still like her a lot. ?áThe adults are even more cardboard, but at least they're not cliches. ?áAnd there are interesting details I've not seen done in other stories. ?áThere's a fair bit of discussion of lucid dreaming, from a scientific pov, and a little bit of spirituality, too. ?áAlso, the Matisse cover is a much better one than the candy one, because the reader is given a good little bit of help understanding/appreciating Matisse's style.

There is some drinking and a little bit of cruelty, but these kids aren't 14, and so it doesn't seem egregious to me. ( )