Tell Me Three Things

“Not feeling like I belong anywhere has made me crave constant motion; standing still feels risky, like asking to be a target.”

With all that's been going on in the world and especially in my country this week I needed to read something light and sweet to lift up my mood. Nothing better than a good infusion of coming-of-age sprinkled with a bit of romance to do that.

This story has been told many, many times before, it relies on many clichés, so it gets no points for originality, however, the combination of cuteness, angst and humor were in the perfect doses to send to sleep my grumpy critical gnomes and just enjoy the ride. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for mysterious online correspondence stories, after all Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda was one of my favorite books last year. Sure, there were some eye-roll worthy moments, at times the humor relied quite heavy on stereotypes about L.A., mean girls, etc. but overall ‘twas a fun book.

I figured who SN was, from the beginning, even though the author kept introduction characters to mislead us, the were obvious signs. It didn't bother me though, I went along with it and waited with excitement for the moment when Jessie would figure it out too.

I have no idea why I enjoyed this so much. But I couldn't put it down and it put a big ‘ol smile on my face. You can picture me like this.