Title: Since You've Been Gone
Author: Morgan Matson
My Rating: 3.5 stars
Genre: Young Adult; Romance; Contemporary.
ISBN: 9781471122668
Published: July, 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's
Pages: 449
Author: Morgan Matson
My Rating: 3.5 stars
Genre: Young Adult; Romance; Contemporary.
ISBN: 9781471122668
Published: July, 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's
Pages: 449
“It just gets hard, always being someone's second choice”
The first thing I have to say (and please don't get me wrong) is that since the first moment I started reading this book, when Emily described Sloane and everything that Sloane did reminded me of Alison DiLaurentis of 'Pretty Little Liars'... and that's so but so strange since the main character name is 'Emily', and she's brunette... just as Emily of 'Pretty Little Liars', and I'm not going to talk here about 'PLL' because that's not what this is about... I just got curious because I didn't know if Morgan did that on purpose or not, if you didn't I'm so sorry, but I couldn't help thinking about it.
BUT, let's stop talking about it because the similarities are only on the beginning of the book, they'll stop... eventually!
“I somehow knew that the particulars didn't matter. She was my heart, she was half of me, and nothing, certainly not a few measly hundred miles, was ever going to change that.”
SO... Emily met Sloane two years ago, they became BFF and they were like package deal (where one of them was the other was there too), but Sloane disappeared at the beginning of the summer without saying a word to her best friend. She left a list for Emily... the list of thirteen things that she wanted her to do... and those things were crazy things like: apple picking at night; ask for Mona; hug a Jamie, kiss a stranger; steal something; go skinny-dipping... - those kind of things.
This was an unexpected summer for Emily and that was the idea! Sloane wanted her to do things that she would never normally do... just after that she could find Sloane wherever she was!
While she was trying to fulfill all that was on the list, Emily had some help... some unexpected help... of Frank Porter to check things off Sloane's list.
“All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.”
This time, what I have to say is that I didn't love this book... this is NOT my kind of read (at all), I enjoyed reading it but I didn't love it, I can't say that I liked it that much!... I didn't.
This was not a slow reading at all... when I started reading it I was kind of afraid because I don't like to read the same book during more than 2 days (don't ask why... I seriously don't know), and I have the 'small' edition of this book... that is that 'Simon & Schuster' paperback edition that is like 129 x 197cm, and believe me when I say that the font size is very very small... so it was like a nightmare because: realistic fiction is not my favorite genre; 449 pages with small font size is not my first picking at all and read a 'big' book with small font size in less than 3 days?!... oh yeah, this was not getting better!
But here I am... I finished the book, basically I started yesterday morning and I finished it today morning! That was better than I was expecting so I'm not complaning...
SO, although I didn't love it I scored it 3.5 because this was not that bad, I've read so much worse realistic fiction books... so this 3.5 is turning into a 4... not because I loved it (as I said before) but because I enjoyed it and because I've read worse.
The first thing I have to say (and please don't get me wrong) is that since the first moment I started reading this book, when Emily described Sloane and everything that Sloane did reminded me of Alison DiLaurentis of 'Pretty Little Liars'... and that's so but so strange since the main character name is 'Emily', and she's brunette... just as Emily of 'Pretty Little Liars', and I'm not going to talk here about 'PLL' because that's not what this is about... I just got curious because I didn't know if Morgan did that on purpose or not, if you didn't I'm so sorry, but I couldn't help thinking about it.
BUT, let's stop talking about it because the similarities are only on the beginning of the book, they'll stop... eventually!
“I somehow knew that the particulars didn't matter. She was my heart, she was half of me, and nothing, certainly not a few measly hundred miles, was ever going to change that.”
SO... Emily met Sloane two years ago, they became BFF and they were like package deal (where one of them was the other was there too), but Sloane disappeared at the beginning of the summer without saying a word to her best friend. She left a list for Emily... the list of thirteen things that she wanted her to do... and those things were crazy things like: apple picking at night; ask for Mona; hug a Jamie, kiss a stranger; steal something; go skinny-dipping... - those kind of things.
This was an unexpected summer for Emily and that was the idea! Sloane wanted her to do things that she would never normally do... just after that she could find Sloane wherever she was!
While she was trying to fulfill all that was on the list, Emily had some help... some unexpected help... of Frank Porter to check things off Sloane's list.
“All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.”
This time, what I have to say is that I didn't love this book... this is NOT my kind of read (at all), I enjoyed reading it but I didn't love it, I can't say that I liked it that much!... I didn't.
This was not a slow reading at all... when I started reading it I was kind of afraid because I don't like to read the same book during more than 2 days (don't ask why... I seriously don't know), and I have the 'small' edition of this book... that is that 'Simon & Schuster' paperback edition that is like 129 x 197cm, and believe me when I say that the font size is very very small... so it was like a nightmare because: realistic fiction is not my favorite genre; 449 pages with small font size is not my first picking at all and read a 'big' book with small font size in less than 3 days?!... oh yeah, this was not getting better!
But here I am... I finished the book, basically I started yesterday morning and I finished it today morning! That was better than I was expecting so I'm not complaning...
SO, although I didn't love it I scored it 3.5 because this was not that bad, I've read so much worse realistic fiction books... so this 3.5 is turning into a 4... not because I loved it (as I said before) but because I enjoyed it and because I've read worse.