Huntley Fitzpatrick
Hardcover | Pages: 422 pages Rating: 3.72 | 21991 Users | 1991 Reviews
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| Original Title: | What I Thought Was True |
| ISBN: | 0803739095 (ISBN13: 9780803739093) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.huntleyfitzpatrick.com/books.html |
| Characters: | Gwen Castle, Cassidy Sommers |
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Gwen Castle has never so badly wanted to say good-bye to her island home till now: the summer her Biggest Mistake Ever, Cassidy Somers, takes a job there as the local yard boy. He's a rich kid from across the bridge in Stony Bay, and she hails from a family of fishermen and housecleaners who keep the island's summer people happy. Gwen worries a life of cleaning houses will be her fate too, but just when it looks like she'll never escape her past—or the island—Gwen's dad gives her some shocking advice. Sparks fly and secret histories unspool as Gwen spends a gorgeous, restless summer struggling to resolve what she thought was true—about the place she lives, the people she loves, and even herself—with what really is.Particularize About Books What I Thought Was True
| Title | : | What I Thought Was True |
| Author | : | Huntley Fitzpatrick |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 422 pages |
| Published | : | April 15th 2014 by Dial Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Romance. Realistic Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.72 From 21991 Users | 1991 ReviewsCritique About Books What I Thought Was True
I really enjoyed the romance and the setting of this book, it was so cute to see the two come together, after a rocky past. The downside was the pacing. The romance plot was slow to begin with, and was resolved by 75% through, which left a quarter of the book to pull the loose ends together for the subplots that I didn't care about as much as Cass and Gwen's relationship. A lot was going on, and I felt the book could have been at least fifty pages shorter, but I was absolutely LOVING the firstActual rating: 3.5 Just sex. Am I never going to be anything more than somebodys strategy, a destination marked off on a road map and then passed through for someplace better? This book came as a surprise. I expected a light summer read, and I got a whole lot more than that. This is not a fluffy book. It's quite a bit darker and more serious than my anticipated YA Contemporary brain candy (because sometimes I just don't want to think). I have to admit it was rough going at times, because this
In honor of Kissing Day, a little taste of kisses from WHAT I THOUGHT WAS TRUE."He is absolutely still, motionless.Very, very slowly, I lift my own hand, slide it up to rest on top of his and squeeze. His breath catches, but he still doesn't move. There's another flash of lightning. One Mississippi. Two Mississippi. The way to count out a storm. Another beat of silence, then I turn my face to the side and catch his mouth with mine.Someone pinch me.
***Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***What I Thought Was True by Huntley FitzpatrickPublisher: Dial Books for Young ReadersPublication Date: April 15, 2014Rating: 4 starsSource: Kindle copy bought from AmazonSummary (from Goodreads):Gwen Castle has never so badly wanted to say good-bye to her island home till now: the summer her Biggest Mistake Ever, Cassidy Somers, takes a job there as the local yard boy. He's a rich kid from across the bridge in Stony Bay, and she hails from a family
4.5 starsOriginally posted at Writer of WrongsThis boooooooooooook. I closed this book with a happy sigh and an aching tightness in my chest, equal parts enchanted and sad. What I Thought Was True was just what I was expecting from the author of My Life Next Door, a book I love to pieces. This book, set in the same town and world as MLND, captures the bittersweetness of summer. How it bridges the end of something with the beginning of something else, how it seems to symbolizes your past and your
Meeeehhhhhhh....I'm actually kind of upset. I wanted to like this. But Gwen? Oh, my god, what a bitch. Running around with a chip on her shoulder about being poor, being completely unfair to people who don't deserve her shit, giving her cousin a pass for being a total douchebag....I couldn't like her. I couldn't like her cousin. And I couldn't like Cassidy for actually liking her.
Since my first language is Portuguese, reading the book I kept trying to understand why Gwen called her grandmother "vovó" but her grandfather was simply Grandpa Ben... Makes no sense. specially because he was the one who came from Portugal not her.Overall a nice read but the book kind of lost me at the last three chapters. I would've added a few Cass's POV chapters because, clearly, Gwen offers us a skewed and prejudiced version of herself. it would've been nice to see her trough Cass's eyes.
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