One more success for the amazing Ellen Hopkins

I love this story. It's entertaining and intriguing. It has love, friendship deception and sex. Very great adult novel. I have never been disappointed by Ellen; she continues to deliver book after book.

I didn't mind the narration of the book. I was a little confused because I thought with 3 characters and 3 narrators they would have one for each character...That is not the case. Some of the impressions of the male characters and teenage parts were hard to read and very obnoxious but not bad enough to ruin the story.

If you are familiar with Ellen Hopkins or if you are looking for a REAL to life racey adult novel for women...give this a shot!! :)

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Great Book, terrible narrator

The story was awesome, characters very layered and interesting but the woman who read the Andrea part nearly made me pull the plug on this.

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the ending was a little lackluster (spoilers)

I love Ellen Hopkins. have since I was a teenager. this book did not disappoint. slice of life, heartbreaking. however, there are a few loose ends that i wish got tied up. I'm listening to "tilt" now to learn more.

I wish holly found out about Andrea's affair with her husband, but I also really dislike holly's character. she is arrogant, selfish, and borderline narcissistic. shes always going on about things she wants to say to her kids, but never does. just do it, coward.

in Andrea's defense, if my friend was in a wonderful relationship and used me as a cover to cheat on her husband, I would resent her too. but what happened to their relationship in the end? When Andrea began questioning her paternity, but that thread was never explored, it was like drama for dramas sake.

It's like everything was leading up to shelby's death, but only two characters mention her, and only one mentions any real attachment to her. it was a little hard to keep track of Andrea's love life with so many different suitors, all of which she finds something wrong with. I know that's kind of the point, but geez girl, live a little.

there are some inconsistencies with character development. Marissa's first introduced as almost hating her daughter. a very bitter, sarcastic character. I liked that. it was interesting for a character to break the "suffering parent" archetype. But as the story went on it was obvious how confused and ashamed she was. Shane was introduced as a complete asshole kid, but has a complete shift into arguably the best character. it was almost like Ellen was trying to set up Marissa's family life as extremely dysfunctional, due to their lives being overtaken and navigated by a sick daughter. but then it took on a more stereotypical flavor, like Ellen forgot what direction she wanted to go with it. on the flip side, I absolutely loved the storyline with shelby's illness. I actually cried when she died.

there are a few characters who are introduced, and then nothing comes from them. like Sahara. Holly was warned about her attachment problems and I wish that was explored more. and what happened with Brian, really?

also, maaaybe listen to this one with headphones. lots of sex.

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you feel lots of emotions

it was a good story .. made me laugh and cry. in would get angry and annoyed.. I even got turned on 🤣

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I finished the book.

It was fine, I guess I was intrigued enough to find out what happened to the characters. Like other reviewer’s, I didn’t understand the portion of the book where the person broke down the meaning of a word or phrase. I think any person reading a book can pick up on things via context clues if something is that confusing. None of the words or phrases were confusing. It was very unnecessary. The book was okay, it was my first time reading the author.

Perfect

As always, Ellen Hopkin’s books are so perfectly written. This was just another success of Hers.

Not her best.

Love Ellen Hopkins and was expecting more in her adult book but her young adult is actually way better in my opinion. The only one who made this story was Marrisa, I thought she was awful at the beginning but she grew on me especially all the problems she kept facing. I wanted to stop reading but the end made up for it. I started crying. Not her best but still not the worst I’ve read. A little hard to follow with narrators a bit confusing until the middle of the book you put together who is who.

Where did I read this plot before….

So… this story is the exact same story as tilt, just under the moms POV. Was a bit hard to finish.

good but with some flaws

good read but could not stand the random chick talking in the middle between people. I skipped it every time. It's a definite miss for me

The ending was great...

This one took me awhile to stay into. The ending had me in tears.