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Despite acknowledging all its flaws, I can't help loving this series. I had so many thoughts running through my head while reading but all I can say now is that it's hard to let it go.

Really, really sweet. The kind of book that makes me all smiley-faced after reading. I'm just a sucker for romance.

I do have to comment that I don't feel that the characters were really that fleshed out. The minor characters felt too much like props to the main story. Maybe it was the length? The whole story felt a bit rushed and too much for me to imagine as real, even in a book sense.

(The rating's mostly how I felt immediately after reading. It might change.)

I thought it was sweet, but not enough to hold my attention long enough to finish it. (I don't like reading slowly.) Some moments felt a bit meh-ish and, while this has nothing to do with the book itself, I don't like that the back cover stated it as Romeo & Juliet with a happier ending.

Definitely a light read.

Something about this book rubbed me the wrong way.

I would say that I don't really like books that deal with unfaithfulness because they all seem similar, but that would be a lie because I still read them.

Instead, I just get really frustrated. I had the same problem with Susane Colasanti's take. Lots of times when I wanted to pull hair.

The ending was kind of disappointing for me. There was a lot of build up towards THE MOMENT but it was never really detailed and I was expecting something more surprising based on the synopsis.

All in all, it's still good for those who enjoy books about high school drama, or aren't looking for a heavy read.

Galley courtesy of Simon & Schuster's Galley Grab Program!

So good and I'm just getting started.

edit: Okay so I thought Invincible Summer was amazing, but Gone, Gone, Gone is a whole new level. It feels more intense and wonderful and ohhh. I love it crazy, I love it sane. I can't even be coherent right now.

Thanks Simon & Schuster for having the amazing Galley Grab program that let me read this and be awed.

I liked that there was time taken to build the story, but it seemed a bit draggy and I found myself skipping just to see what happens in the end.

I wanted to make a huge review. I really did. But I don't think my words can give it justice.

This was beautiful. So worth all those months and weeks of waiting. To sum up my feelings: I would sleep with this book if I could.

Wow. Just... wow.

Probably would have never touched this book had it not been for school. Still find it an okay read so far, although my version's about 436 pages and most of it is scientific description. Meh.

I liked it better than I thought I would. I wish the book emphasized on Will a bit more because the synopsis on the back gave me the impression that he was a more important character.

Still not sure how to review this.

I felt frustrated with Kaylee throughout the course of the book. While I understood that Nash had lost her trust in a serious way, I was upset that she couldn't at least let him reach out for help. I found it hard to relate with her in this book because of this. I read the last three books really close together which had made it easier for me to sink into it, whereas here the wait was months after and therefore my understanding of the story could be tainted.

My favourite part of the book was probably Tod. He really helped Kaylee throughout the entire book, which I think proves what she said at some point (that the hero complex skipped him) isn't entirely true.

All in all, while it took a few hours later for the story to finally sink in, it definitely left me craving for the next one. :)

As a book I picked up in an op shop during my last trip to Australia, this novel already came wrapped in a coat of nostalgia. (Not literally, if that's what you were thinking considering the whole op shop part.) I think I'm just a sucker for interestingly structured books, so that was a plus.

I haven't reread it in a while though, so I may sometime this year.

This series totally had one of my favourite concepts of any middle-grade book. I just wish I could find it again.

I read this years ago and now I can't remember what I think of it.

idgi.

Isn't this part of an already published anthology?

First Sarah Dessen book I picked up, so it's a bit sentimental :)

This was one of my absolute favourite books when I was younger, but I sold off my paperback ages ago (along with Holes). Kind of regret it.

there are echoes of the plot of spanglish by the end of this, just in the barest of bones.

recently saw an nyt readers' choice list which put this at no. 7 and have mixed feelings about it lol. i'm a huge fan of gabrielle zevin's work and have been ever since memoirs of a teenage amnesiac (still a YA novel close to my heart) and i love game dev stories, so it was really disappointing for me to not be able to get into this one. i feel like it might partially be because it reminds me a lot of the mythic quest episode ‘a dark quiet death' which i felt explored a similar theme in a much better way!

highly recommend any of gabrielle zevin's other works still, though. still happy if this is someone's gateway to the rest of her bibliography.

Sigh, if only there was an actual novel about Celie.

Haven't picked up this series since primary school. Desperately want to again.

I listened to the audiobook of this, and it made the reading - or rather, listening - experience a really memorable one. Perhaps if I had just read the text, I would have enjoyed it less but right now I truly can't give it anything less than 4 1/2 at least! The book was a real treat. :)