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Alex, Approximately

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Once he starts to open himself up to Bailey and the possibility of knowing her, we get to discover the other facets of his personality. Es gab außerdem trotzdem kleine Details in der Geschichte, die noch für Überraschungen gesorgt haben. There was a lot to really like about this read - it is very easy to read for a start, and I read the whole book in only a day, so it's pacey enough to keep you interested. Though I enjoy her generally simple writing, there were times when I didn’t grasp how she intended certain words to be expressed.

There are a lot of different, sometimes dramatic, threads here, but the plot never feels overcrowded. As it's too often the case, important issues are completely thrown off a cliff for the sake of the romance, and I'm not here for that : in Alex, Approximately, we have Davy, Porter's ex-best friend, who's got chronic pain since a surfing injuring and who starts doing drugs. When I heard it was a retelling, I was like "Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuu, me is definitely interested like please sign me uppppppp! Only Bailey is a lot more cautious than that so she doesn’t actually tell Alex she’s moving to his hometown, despite his invitation to meet him at the annual film festival at the end of the summer.I just wish that there was much done with this great story, i seemed to figure the whole thing out half way through and spent the second half waiting for Bailey to figure it out too. Now we just have to wait for the dumbest protagonist in world history to figure out what has been increasingly apparent since, like, page 5. Also, even though it's literally so obvious who Alex is, they tell you in the freaking description of the book. Her books have earned multiple starred reviews, been Goodreads Choice Award Nominees, and have been included on annual Best Books lists from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly.

So let’s talk about why this book is garbàge, using the Caraval review structure I only whip out when books got a whole lotta sh*t goin' on. I understand I can change my preference through my account settings or unsubscribe directly from any marketing communications at any time.

Alex, Approximately is the second book I've read from Jenn Bennett and I think I loved it even more than the first. Classic movie buff Bailey “Mink” Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by “Alex. That’s an addiction that is almost impossible to break, and, we’re told, the sh*ttiness of Davy’s family life only spurs him more toward drugs. I also really liked the depiction of Bailey's approach to intimacy and sex, balancing the shyness about approaching a first time with wanting sex and instigating intimacy in a way that wasn't ashamed by those wants and needs - it's a really healthy approach for the sort of audience this book is written for.

Longtime, long-suffering followers know that this is the section I use for books that contain small mistakes or irritations that just don’t make sense. Classic movie fan Bailey “Mink” Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online as Alex.It states that Porter and Bailey are “archnemesises” but they literally only hate each other for maybe twenty pages. I wish this story line had been given a bit more depth, so that it wasn't as black and white as Davy becoming a villain due to his vices, but I can totally understand that there was just too much going on to tackle that too. Bailey has just moved in to her dad’s place in California, and a lot of her growth is focused around this setting. I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with the way the ""trust"" conversations enfolded because somehow their trust looks very much like "you must tell me everything at all time" and what happened to keeping some kind of secret garden?

so so often i feel like YA heroines are either super stubborn or have big doormat energy and Bailey was neither. This is a book that I'll be reading over and over again: when I need a pick me up or to get out of a slump or just need to grin like a loon the way I am right now. And as the summer months go by, Bailey must choose whether to cling to a dreamy online fantasy in Alex or take a risk on an imperfect reality with Porter. An engrossing, amusing and sweet story that should appeal to anyone who likes their romance to be a bit smarter. It's not long before Bailey and Porter's verbal sparring turns into something more, and while it becomes clear to the reader that Porter is Alex, neither he nor Bailey have any idea.Gleichzeitig aber sucht sie auch nach Alex, ihrem Chat-Freund, den sie zwar noch nie gesehen hat, mit dem sie aber auch eine enge Freundschaft verbindet. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I never knew how comforting reading these YA books was until I hit my first reading slump after a year of non stop reading.

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