sarah dessen's just listen
in between settling-in things, fun rollerskating outings, and dealing with the dogs next door getting loose, i finally read a book! jenny kept telling me to read something by sarah dessen, but i could never remember which ones she recommended specifically so i just picked up her newest. which worked out well, since it featured music-obsessed dj types. aw, now i'm homesick! i did enjoy this quite a bit, though it unsurprisingly wrapped up extremely neatly (as YA novels are wont to do). i also really liked how dessen writes her characters--all the dialogue and everything seemed really natural, which is often a rarity in YA books. i definitely will be checking out some of her earlier works.
yay! i'm glad you liked it. i still haven't read this one yet but i'm supposed to be getting a copy from sarah at some point. hopefully.
ReplyDeletei know what you mean about YA endings, but i have to say that i like it better when they end neatly than when they end all messy and full of unbelievable problems.
i wasn't really complaining about the ending . . . just sometimes YA novels have this sort of abrupt ending thing going on, where all the plotlines resolve in ten pages. this wasn't on that extreme level--i liked the ending!
ReplyDeletei agree with you that nice endings are better than messy ones (are those indicative of the author's hopes to writing a sequel?).