It was alright. I didn't really see the point to it though since there was no important life lesson, or at least none that I could see. Both the girls voices sounded pretty much the same, but I guess that made sense because we usually talk like the people we hang around. That's another thing though, some of the language was over the top type teen slang. I'm not sure if I'm hanging with the dorks who don't use the latest teen slang, but we don't talk like that. Some of the slang sounds kinda old More...

Colasanti does a great job of telling a story in first person, in this case through three separate first person accounts and each voice is unique with different ways of expressing themselves. I really enjoy the way she crafts her stories.
Rhiannon is pining over the loss of her boyfriend, Steve and is consumed with trying to understand why he dumped her and how to get him back.
James, her best friend, is busy trying to console her and his girlfriend dumps him because he tends to put Rhiannon befo More...

The best part about Colasanti books are the genuine voice of adolescence in them. I mean, seriously, you have all the "likes" "ums" "uhs" etc in the right places. All the conversations seem believable between two teens and you don't doubt that teens would talk about the topics they do talk about. BUT that's what also drives me insane, it's almost like Colassanti takes the average teen and writes about him/her--so the dialogue is just....annoying. Of course not all teens speak with tons of likes More...

I've only read Waiting For You by Susane Colasanti, besides now this one, and I fell in love with that book. It was sweet, and had such deep emotion with teenagers who were real and endearing. I was excited to read all of her other books, hoping that they would all have that same type of feeling. Sadly, Take Me There didn't possess that quality. The writing felt so off, it was overly simple and juvenile, (which honestly isn’t all bad, as I loved the juvenile voice in Waiting For You, just here, More...

Reviewed by The Compulsive Reader for TeensReadToo.com

Rhiannon has just been dumped without a reason. She's miserable beyond belief. Nicole has just dumped her boyfriend with a reason. She's confused beyond belief. And James...James would do nearly anything to get Rhiannon to stop mooning over her ex and finally notice him as more than her buddy.

Over the course of a week, many things will happen to these three friends. There will be confessed secrets, messages on sidewalks, delivered flowers, a More...

This book truly states the everyday lives of modern day high schooler's agendas and relationships. It takes place from the point of view of three different people's perspectives that are all best friends. Every few chapters it switches points of views and tells the same story from different people's way of seeing it. This book gives examples of all stages of young relationships. One girl is suffering from sudden heartbreak when her boyfriend dumps her for the most popular/hated girl in school. M More...

I really enjoyed reading Waiting For You and When It Happens, because they were so easily relatable. There were some points I liked about Take Me There. I really liked Danny's character. He was fun to read about. I liked how sweet he was too. But I was not that much impressed, especially by the ending. I did not get why there had to be three POVs (Couldn't we just stick to one?) and why the author had to replay everything for every single POV. I think she probably wanted to emphasize every chara More...

I read the book take me there by Susane Colasanti. It is a really cute nonfiction book. That relates a lot to high school and teenagers. The writer does a really good job of using dialog that teenagers would use. The story it in frist person but there is three different narrators. Every chapter they switch. Each character is really different. I can tell Colasanti tried to make each main character an individual. Each of them are really different for one another but they a lot still relate and ar More...

What I loved most about this book were the personalities of the characters. I'm not just talking about the main characters but also the minor characters, the ones with the points of views you wish you could've read about. There were so many that I loved that this is going to be a really long review, sorry but I'd like to say this would be a review you'd want to read, not to be bias or anything.

I loved the personalities of Danny, Tatyana, and even Jackson. These were people the main characters, More...

Love Susane Colasanti books! Told by three different friends' perspectives; Rhiannon has been dummped by Steve and he hasn't really given her a reason why. Rhee's best friend Nicole has just broken up with Danny, she is not sure why; but Danny definitely still cares about Nicole. James is Rhiannon's friend and hates his life and just wants to get away to college so he can make lots of money after he graduates. There is drama, suspense and a whole lot of teen angst going on in this book. I truly More...

Rhiannon hat Liebeskummer und möchte sich am liebsten unter ihrer Decke verkriechen. Völlig unerwartet hat sich ihr Freund Steve von ihr getrennt, der in ihrer Beziehung keinen Sinn mehr sieht. Jedoch muss sie die schwere Zeit nicht allein durchstehen, denn ihre besten Freunde Nicole und James stehen ihr bei.
Doch schnell wird klar, dass auch die beiden ihr ganz eigenes Päckchen zu tragen haben: Nicole ist von der Männerwelt schwer enttäuscht und kann sich nur schwer wieder auf einen Mann einlass More...

Rhiannon hat Liebeskummer und möchte sich am liebsten unter ihrer Decke verkriechen. Völlig unerwartet hat sich ihr Freund Steve von ihr getrennt, der in ihrer Beziehung keinen Sinn mehr sieht. Jedoch muss sie die schwere Zeit nicht allein durchstehen, denn ihre besten Freunde Nicole und James stehen ihr bei.
Doch schnell wird klar, dass auch die beiden ihr ganz eigenes Päckchen zu tragen haben: Nicole ist von der Männerwelt schwer enttäuscht und kann sich nur schwer wieder auf einen Mann einlass More...

Rhiannon hat Liebeskummer und möchte sich am liebsten unter ihrer Decke verkriechen. Völlig unerwartet hat sich ihr Freund Steve von ihr getrennt, der in ihrer Beziehung keinen Sinn mehr sieht. Jedoch muss sie die schwere Zeit nicht allein durchstehen, denn ihre besten Freunde Nicole und James stehen ihr bei.
Doch schnell wird klar, dass auch die beiden ihr ganz eigenes Päckchen zu tragen haben: Nicole ist von der Männerwelt schwer enttäuscht und kann sich nur schwer wieder auf einen Mann einlass More...

Dylan met Wade during suspension at Downey High. They also spent eight months in juvie together and now, just when Dylan thought life was getting better, they are fleeing California and heading for Texas.

Dylan: He had feelings for a girl named Jess, but he didn't think he was worthy of her attention. He was illiterate and he was once a wannabe gangbanger and he'd been in trouble. He also had a father in jail on death row, a mother who was depressed and a grandmother with an attitude. I felt bad More...

This book truly states the everyday lives of modern day high schooler's agendas and relationships. It takes place from the point of view of three different people's perspectives that are all best friends. Every few chapters it switches points of views and tells the same story from different people's way of seeing it. This book gives examples of all stages of young relationships. One girl is suffering from sudden heartbreak when her boyfriend dumps her for the most popular/hated girl in school. M More...

Take Me There by Susane Colasanti tells three intertwined stories: Rhiannon, Nicole and James.

Rhiannon has just been dumped by her boyfriend. She is completely devastated and will do anything (read: ANYTHING) to get him back.

Nicole is Rhiannon’s best friend. Her and her boyfriend Danny have just broken up, but he is still in love with her. However, Nicole is in love with someone else…an older man.

James is Rhiannon’s other best friend. They’ve known each other forever. James’s girlfriend just dum More...

With every teen/young adult book I read, I feel like I'm growing out of the books, but not the genre itself.

I started this book yesterday and got about 70 pages in before I just got so completely and utterly bored.

I’m not sure I’m going to last the entire book because

a)Both Nicole and Rhiannon are so desperately boring and obsessed with being different.

b)Soooooo much name dropping and references to movies etc in so little time. It’s distracting.

c)Rhiannon has been with this steve guy for 4 mont More...

Take Me There by Susane Colasanti was not very good on any level. You get the same boring story from three different people's point of views (all of whom need to stay in school and go to communication classes).

To me it felt like she had an idea for the story she wanted to tell about Rhiannon but wasn’t sure where to go from there. So once she finished the story she realized how shallow and short the story was, instead of adding to the story and making the reader want know more, she told the sam More...

When I was in the middle of reading the first few pages of this book, I already thought of the perfect word to describe it: Generic. It's one of those old friendship-romance-breakup books that I do enjoy, but I'm very aware that there are tons of these kinds of books out there that just don't know how to work the genre correctly. And to me, this was one of those books.

I really like those kinds of stories where the narrators switch chapter-by-chapter, but here, it doesn't really work out. I was g More...

While Take Me There is written in the same honest tone Colasanti's readers have gotten so used to, there's just something a bit off about the whole thing. Other than Nicole's issue, which isn't revealed until the very end, it's all about the relationships. I don't want to read only about boy trouble! The characters were well-characterized, but they still didn't seem like well-rounded individuals with big concerns, again, with the exception of Nicole at the end of the book. Maybe if Nicole's prob More...

This book surprised me. Reading other people's revies, I was a bit wary of reading it, but I got it free at the library, so I said "what the heck?" The characters, to me, were extremely relateable. I could tell why they did the things they did and they all seemed like they would make great friends.
One of the things I didn't like was the switching of the point of views. Now, I do like reading other characters' perspectives, but I didn't like how everything was repeated. Like you'd hear the same d More...

My friend Debbie and I discovered Susane on wandering around Amazon.com and I was so glad we did. I like her writing style, it's nice and everything feels close to real life. I have this goofy feeling whenever I pick Take Me There up. It was such a sweet one. The cover, the story, even the acknowledgements will put a smile on your face.

More or less you'll find yourself (and maybe your friends too) in this book. Every characters seem familiar. There's Rhianon, heartbroken and hopeless after a sud More...

"Take Me there", is an amazing book! If you like a drama and love story then this is a good book for you. It’s all told from three different points of views on one specific week. James, Nicole, and Rhiannon are the three main characters. There all best friends going through some drama. Rhiannon’s boyfriend just dumped her and she’s devastated. She tries to get him back because she believes he still love her. Nicole is always there to listen to Rhiannon’s problems, but now she’s having some of he More...

Take Me There

Reading this book made me realize a lot of things because when I read this, I feel like I could relate for a while and all, especially when I just read the summary here at goodreads.com, but other than that I definitely can agree with it and can relate.

Reading Susane Colasanti's books just makes me feel like I can truly relate to them, maybe because I'm also emotionally challenged and wants a romance chick flick to put me up and running with myself.

Summary:

Rhiannon got herself in a More...

In Take me there lernt der Leser Rhiannon, Nicole und James kennen, drei Freunde aus New York, die eine ganz besondere Geschichte zu erzählen haben.

Rhiannon, genannt Ree, wurde gerade von ihrem Freund verlassen und will ihn zurückerobern, doch besagter Freund hat sich schon mit der Schul-Schlampe eingelassen und außerdem ist da ja noch James, ihr bester Freund, der sich ihr gegenüber so merkwürdig verhält. Und wie passt Nicole ins Bild? Sie ist sowohl mit James als auch mit Ree befreundet und ha More...

Take Me There


Everyone remembers high school, the drama, the romance, and in this case, the karma. In the novel Take Me There by Susane Colasanti, the reader meets three peculiar characters from the state of New York. All of them are easy to relate to when you enter this funny, romantic, charming book that tells the tale of a couple of high school teens striving for justice.

When Rhiannon and her boyfriend break up, she forces herself to go pass her organized, planned life. If writing a messag More...

This it the first book I have read by Susane Colasanti. Her writing style is very suitable for some teen readers. Characters do not always say something, instead "she was like" or "so I go" is often what comes before a line of dialogue. As an adult reader who is obviously not the target audience, I was often taken out of the moment when I read that. It fits the character's voice and I imagine some teen readers would not bat an eyelash, although I know not all teen readers would like it. It did m More...

In this story "Take Me There" By Susane Colasanti the main characters are Rhiannon, Nicole, and James. There are three stories;
*Rhiannon has just been dumped by her boyfriend Steve. She is really heartbroken and will do anything to try to get back with him.
*Nicole is Rhiannon's bestfriend. Her and her boyfriend Danny just broke up. But he's still in love with her. Now Nicole is in love with another guy,he's way older.
*James is Rhiannon's other bestfriend. They've known eachother forever. James More...