Sarah Dessen - Someone Like You

Pros: Deep characters, good handling of hard issues
Cons: Plot is a little predictable, some of the characters are one-sided

"I heart Sarah Dessen!" I'd never heard the name before, but my friend Jo insisted that Sarah was one of her favorite writers. Jo is a 21-year-old writing major working on her senior project, a young adult novel. This requires her to spend hours in the ...

Pros: -Fresh without trying, a few funny moments in a mostly heavy book
Cons: -Characters sometimes self-absorbed with their one-sided view

Someone Like You handles a lot of various topics including stereotypical teen traumas like teen pregnancy, sex, alcohol, parents, and the meaning of friendship. So what else is new? Not much, but Sarah Dessen manages to write common themes and make them ...

Pros: Easy to connect to... anyone who has ever had a friend will understand
Cons: Ending Could Be Stronger( but I wont give it away)

This book is a strong book with set forward characters and a plot which is amazing.
It is a story of two best friends. One of which becomes a teenage mother and the other who is testing out her own love life. It shows growth of teenagers in a...

Pros: This book is very entertaining.
Cons: However, it is more for a younger generation.

"Someone Like You" touched my heart in many ways. While reading the book, I found it easy to relate to the characters. Scarlett and Halley were much like my best friend and myself. "Someone Like You" is a story of two best friends who go...

Pros: Good, interesting book.
Cons: Author not widely known.

Someone Like You is a great book. It's about two friends who after all they've been through, are still best friends. One of the girls' boyfriend gets killed, and then she finds out she's carrying his baby. The other girl is struggling to get through...