Sadie has been in love with her best-friend Garrett for two years, which is why she's so excited to be spending six-whole-weeks at a camp for aspiring writers with Garrett. He's just broken up with his latest girlfriend, so this is finally Sadie's chance to turn their friendship into more. Garrett pretty much occupies all of Sadie's free time. They do everything together. Sadie basically built her world and identity around Garrett, discarding her previous friends, and likes for Garrett and his p More...

Some books just have every perfect element. A narrator whose voice is so authentic, so perfectly matched to their story, so absolute spot-on with every emotion and reaction. A romantic comedy-esque plot that's maybe done to death in some people's opinions, but not exactly in this way and doesn't have everything wrap up in a pristine, pretty bow so that it ends up actually feeling like a real ending. A cast of characters that are so funny and unique and perfectly utilized in a way that makes each More...

A big thank you to Abby McDonald and Heather Wilks-Jones for sending me a copy of this book. From the moment I saw this book cover on good-reads I knew I had to read it. I am so HAPPY I got that chance. This is one of those books you can't down once you start reading it. It is like a train wreck you can't look away, you want to but you just can't. This is how Sadie is with Garrett.

Lord this book had me laughing one minute and crying the next. Poor Sadie is in love with Garrett and he has no idea More...

I should start off by saying that I love books that stay true to their title and cover, just as this one does.

Sadie is very likable, with her love of books and wit. The way Sadie describes her feelings for Garrett Delaney, after their initial encounter at the coffee shop, makes her eventual love for him believable and sweet. But that’s just it - Garrett never reciprocates her feelings. When he goes to a writing camp for six weeks, he merely “misses” Sadie and, at the same time, admits that he wa More...

Blurb:

Can a twelve-step program help Sadie kick her unrequited crush for good? Abby McDonald serves up
her trademark wit and wisdom in a hilarious new novel.

Seventeen-year-old Sadie is in love: epic, heartfelt, and utterly onesided. The object of her obsession - ahem, affection - is her best friend, Garrett Delaney, who has been oblivious to Sadie's
feelings ever since he sauntered into her life and wowed her with his passion for Proust (not to mention his deep-blue eyes).

For two long, painful y More...

Pretty good. Read it in 5 hours. I guess I have to start trusting White Pine Award recs instead of the Goodreads suggestions. Couldn't find anything to satisfy a craving and White Pine saved the day.
Book reads very well. The protagonist is a bit mature for her age, but I actually enjoy someone who isn't ashamed to apologise.
The characters were well thought out. I felt there was more to them than the writer let on, and it gave me some freedom in my imagination. It is the first book that I read More...

Book Review
By: Sydney Laplow
When you see the words "Getting Over" in a title, you may think "Oh another one of those books" and then you go look for another book to read. (Well that’s what I do anyway) Once you read "Getting over Garrett Delaney" you won’t think that any more. It starts off with a seventeen year old girl named Sadie, sitting alone in a cafe, when a hunky guy named Garrett walks in. It’s love at first site, but only in Sadie’s eyes. They become best friends and do everything tog More...

When I read the first few chapters of “Getting Over Garrett Delaney,” I was both excited and extremely pissed off. I have had a Garrett Delaney. Like Sadie, I have analyzed every touch as a sign of affection. Like Sadie, I have catered my attire to the likings of a boy. Like Sadie, I have found it almost impossible to get over a boy I have never actually dated. Thus, I was excited to have found a book about an experience I have had and pissed off because I thought Abby McDonald had written the b More...

I adored the overall message of this book.

Sadie starts out hopelessly, head over heels in unrequited love with her best friend, Garrett Delaney, who as it turns out is a bit of a pretentious poetry-spouting hipster. But when Garrett goes away to writing camp for six weeks and Sadie is pronounced too young to go, she starts realising just how much of her life revolves around him--that she needs to get over him and start being Sadie, not a female Garrett clone.

Books like these can turn out whiny a More...

If you have ever had a crush on someone you know you can't have, then this book is perfect for you. I really enjoyed this book, it's full of fun, romance and craziness. The main charecter sadie, has had a crush on her best friend garret forever, but when its finally time for garret to graduate she realizes they'll probably won't ever be anything more than friends. for their whole friendship she has been doing what ever he wants to do, liked whatever he llikes, and disliked whatever he disliked. More...

Getting Over Garrett Delany was the cute summer read I have been looking for. Sadie was a girl in love/obsessed when she realizes that the apple of her eye is never going to come around. So, she embarks on a 12 step plan to get over him and move on with her life. The plot was endearing and relatable. What girl doesn’t want advice about how to get over her insanely unattainable crush? Seriously though, the book was well written with a cast of mixed characters and a plot that kept me flipping page More...

4.5 stars
This story wasn't quite what I expected and I say that in a good way. This isn't a breezy teen romance, but a story with depth, both in the characters and in the plot.
Sadie has been in unrequited love with her best friend, Garrett, for two years. He sees her as his best buddy, but she wants more and he is clueless about her secret feelings.
What I liked was that there isn't a romance that heats up to get her over him. She must do it on her own and little by little, with some back steps More...

At the risk of sounding painfully old, I think this book holds an amazingly good message for young women. Come to think of it, I know some adult women who would probably benefit from it.

'Self-actualization' is the term that comes to mind when I sit and ponder how to describe this story, and I suppose it's telling that that exact term is used fairly early on in the book. Sadie's struggle with her addiction to Garrett, and her subsequent attempts to get out and live her own life were touching and More...

Okay. I absolutely love YA lit. I can't help it. I guess I've just never really forgotten what it was like to be 15, or 17, in this case.

This book was wonderful. Hands down. Just a great story. I sympathized SO much with the character, because I was SO MUCH like her when I was a teenager. Melodramatic, hopelessly romantic, and while I didn't completely lose myself in my unrequited love, I lost myself enough to know exactly what she felt like. I have DEFINITELY experienced that "...This is just n More...

When Sadie Allen and Garrett Delaney happen to meet at a coffeehouse, it's love at first sight for her, and she spends the next two years trying to make him see her as a potential love mate. But that first meeting actually hints at what it is to come since Sadie isn't reading her usual diet of chick lit but happens to have a collection of Pablo Neruda poems with her. Garrett defines her by her reading tastes, and if his assumptions about Sadie are wrong, she simply begins to change who she is, d More...

From the very first time Sadie laid her eyes with Garrett, she knew he was the one. Him being the new boy in town, her being the awkward fourteen year old girl with no experience with guys at all, they struck a conversation and BAM--the connection is made, they became friends, best friends.

Now seventeen, after two years of friendship, all Sadie wanted was to be more than that...but she never did anything to voice out her inner feelings to the oblivious Garrett but to be around him: she is his li More...

He was the one I’d been waiting for, sent by the heavens to make my life infinitely better and exquisitely painful all in one fell swoop.
- Sadie
I looked over at him and knew that this was the start of my own real-life love story.
- Sadie
None of that tourist trash. We’re going to see the real America.
- Garreth
I guess even fate finds a way of destroying your hopes and dreams, leaving your heart dashed on the cruel rocks of life — just ask the poor souls in all those Greek myths.
- Sadie
what we turne More...

This book will have a lot of teen appeal because of the subject matter. I’m sure every girl has, at one time or other, suffered through unrequited love and tried hard to get over it. I’ve had unrequited love aplenty (more infatuations, actually) in my teens and now I can afford to look back and laugh over all those silly moments, but I wished I had a book back then to help me through those moments of noble suffering...

Why did I pick this book as an adult? For nostalgia, mostly and of course, I’m More...

I related so much to Sadie! I loved all the characters, even when I was disliking them (if that makes sense--ie. Garrett)- some of the stand outs were LuAnn and Kayla-- good girlfriends are a necessity! The romance with Josh was believable, it wasn't rushed, and it was pretty darn cute! But I also really liked the message this book sends to girls- that we don't have to define ourselves based around the guys we like. Try new things! Explore! We are always changing and discovering new aspects of o More...

From the moment Sadie saw Garrett Delaney she knew that they were perfect for each other. How couple they possibly not be together? Fast forward two years and Sadie and Garrett are inseparable...as best friends. They share everything together...movies, music, and clothing styles. Only problem is that Sadie is still madly in love with Garrett. Too bad he is so busy dating every other girl but Sadie to notice. Now Garrett is off to writers camp for six weeks and Sadie is left at home. Will this be More...

I gave it three stars because I can some what relate. I have never been as extreme as to keep everything that he has ever given me but I have pined after a guy who doesn't reciprocate my love. Of course when I got over it and started to ignore him, he didn't confess his undying love for me *NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I WISHED* That usually only happens in books but hey a girl can hope. The steps make sense. One would have to mould them because not every situation is the same but it helps to have t More...

This was a lot better than I thought it would be, a lot different too. I had a few theories when I first started this and it turned out so much different than I thought. And it was better for it. Sadie has been head over heels in love with her best friend... who pretty much sees through her as if she weren't standing right in front of him when it comes to romantic feelings. While I thought I was going to get a romantic ya book, it was a coming of age and self discovery for a girl whose life for More...

Oh, boy...does Sadie have a problem or what? Getting over her best friend? Yup - that's gonna be toughie.

Okay. Here's what I think: Anyone who' ever crushed on, fallen in love with, or gotten dumped by someone will love this book. It's the kind of book that's meant for young adults but will mostly be circulating among the older crowd. It's experience talking. Mine, yours and your friend's whom you talked out of contacting that no-good love interest of hers. I mean, really. That's pretty much why More...

Getting Over Garrett Delaney is about a girl who.. Well, is getting over Garrett Delaney. Sadie has been Garrett’s best friend for two years, however the first time she laid eyes on him at the coffee shop; she believed that he was the one. However, two years later and they’re still only friends, which frustrates her to no end. When Garrett goes away to summer camp and Sadie gets a job at that same coffee shop, she finally decides that she has had enough. The gods of unrequited love aren’t choosi More...

I really enjoyed Getting Over Garrett Delaney, my first book by Abby McDonald. Sadie's dilemma is one that I'm sure a lot of teen girls can relate to, whether they've been best friends with their crush or crushing from afar. I might not have picked it up had it not been nominated for an award, but I'm so glad I did. I also liked that the theme of letting a guy rule your life wasn't only evident in her, but extended to most of the girls in her new circle as well for slightly different reasons. It More...

Getting Over Garrett Delaney by Abby McDonald. This novel is about a girl called Sadie who is in love with her best friend, Garrett. Her life seems to be based around trying to impress him. She listens to the music he likes; wears the clothes he likes girls wearing. All in all, she in head over heels for him and would do anything to be with him. During the summer, Garrett goes to camp while Sadie stays in town and works at a coffee shop. She misses him so much, until he calls her to say that he' More...

GLORY HALLELUJAH. SOME GOOD CHICK LIT. FINALLY. No whining girls. No pathetic pining. And absolutely no inane hysterical rants. YESSSSSS

Okay, so the blurb of this book left me kind of skeptical at first. A girl who decides to use self-help books to get her to stop hopelessly pining for a guy? It sounds sketchy, and cheesy, and overly . . . peppy. But the characters are surprisingly real. There's no set stereotype or generalization. Again, this is some hands-down good chick lit to add to my list More...

Is it better to exist or to live?

Seventeen-year old Sadie Allen has spent the last two years pining for her best friend, Garrett, but when he heads off to literary camp for the summer withut her, she decides to kick her unrequited crush for good, with the help of her co-workers, another boy and her own summer-twelve-step program

This book reminded me a lot of Robin Brande's book Fat cat, a fictional self-hep manual that pretty much relates it back to the protagonist's life. It is exciting, fun More...

Loved this book. I enjoyed watching Sadie grow as a person and move on. I was able to connect really well with the characters. Everyone has had some kind of crush or obsession that just becomes too big to comprehend and we all need help getting over it. For Sadie it was getting over Garrett Delaney. The 12 step plan was so fun to read. I got so excited that I photocopied all the steps. Even though Sadie and the people around her were going through some hard times they never gave up on each other More...

Story of my life. Really.

The main character, Sadie is so eerily like me. She likes books and stuff, and in love with her best friend, Garrett Delaney for two years. So something happened and she decides that enough is enough, she cannot wait for him anymore, and she has to get over him for good, so she devises a 12-step plan to do that.

I love, love, love the support group that helps Sadie throughout her quest; her friends at work, and her childhood friend Kayla. I myself have a big group of gi More...