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  <title><![CDATA[Bloom]]></title>
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  <default_description>There's a difference between falling and letting go.

Lauren has a good life: decent grades, great friends, and a boyfriend every girl lusts after. So why is she so unhappy?

It takes the arrival of Evan Kirkland for Lauren to figure out the answer: She's been holding back. She's been denying herself a bunch of things (like sex) because staying with her loyal and gorgeous boyfriend, Dave, is the &quot;right&quot; thing to do. After all, who would give up the perfect boyfriend?

But as Dave starts talking more and more about their life together, planning a future Lauren simply can't see herself in -- and as Lauren's craving for Evan, and moreover, who she is with Evan becomes all the more fierce -- Lauren realizes she needs to make a choice...before one is made for her.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">24</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">4</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2007</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Bloom</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Scott]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Lauren is with Dave, she’s envied by all, and Lauren thinks nothing can get better than being with her boyfriend. With him, his perfection rubs on her, making her perfect as well. But Lauren isn’t happy. And when an old friend, Evan, comes along, Lauren suddenly realizes that she should cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22894257">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Bloom</em> has been on my list for quite awhile now and it finally got bumped up to the top of my Amazon cart and made its way to my door. This is my first <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/465.Alexis_de_Tocqueville" title="Alexis de Tocqueville">Elizabeth Scott</a> book and she comes highly recommended. Comparisons to <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/135786.Deb_Caletti" title="Deb Caletti">Deb Caletti</a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2987.Sarah_Dessen" title="Sarah Dessen">Sarah Dessen</a> abound and, as I am a big Caletti fan, I was hopin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46714571">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lauren stays closed off by choice. Even though she has been dating Dave, the most popular boy in school, she and her one friend are not popular, merely tolerated by the popular crowd. After her mother abandoned Lauren and her philandering father, a series of women moved in and out of the house but n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27563455">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i bought this because elizabeth is my friend and i was so proud of her for getting it written and published and it getting such a good response in the YA world. but it made me reconsider reading more YA novels in general and especially anything that can be similarly unconventional and honest in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2897659">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lauren Smith's mom left when she was six.  Her dad, a distant figure in her life, is rarely there for her.  Meanwhile, Lauren is dating perfect Dave.  Dave is popular, gorgeous, and actually a decent human being.  He's good and kind and he loves her, and any girl would kill to be his girlfriend.  So...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1490509">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 07 06:59:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had heard nothing but good things about this book.  In many ways, it lived up to my expectations, and in others, failed completely.  Lauren, the protagonist, is a pretty unlikeable character.  She may embody much of the teenage population of the world, but she certainly doesn't speak for me.  The ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42204659">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lauren is like a seed, germinating, and still not sure of herself,  mostly content but not really HAPPY, in spite of having a perfect, popular and NICE boyfriend, decent friends, good grades. This story of her attraction to the new boy at school, who turns out to the son of one of her father's previ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77179948">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading Bloom. Elizabeth Scott is a fantastic writer and managed to create some very complex and layered characters. The plot was easy to get lost in and Laureen had a great voice – I found her to be a very likeable character even though she didn’t always do the most likeable th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71210917">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lauren’s life seems perfect. She has the most popular guy in school pinning after her, she just got her first jazz band solo, she is doing great in school, and she and her best friend Katie have gotten seats at the coveted table at lunch.  Lauren’s outside appearance of happiness is in total con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69020468">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my 3rd book (even though this was written first!!!) and Lauren is a teen who can't believe she is dating the most perfect guy, Dave.  He is kind, considerate and Lauren wonders, &quot;what does he see in me&quot; and everyone in school wonders the same thing too.  Lauren cares about him, but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65187456">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56370849">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 17 09:03:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 17 09:04:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine that your boyfriend is popular, drop dead gorgeous, crazy about you, athletic and wanted by every girl in high school. This is the relationship that Lauren has with Dave. Seems like she should be happy, right? Wrong. She's not. She's in the &quot;perfect&quot; relationship (so everyone think...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56370849">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My praise for BLOOM is that the voice is dead on.  Scott has created just the thing for a light teen read, capturing the vigor and the confusion of the throes of teendom, making use of, while not overdramatizing, a rough home situation.  I was engaged at the start, in a I-just-found-10-Things-I-Hate...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56369897">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Oct 02 20:31:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bloom, by Elizabeth Scott, looks like one of those teen-romance type books, and, well, it is, but it’s actually good. It’s all about Lauren, who gets relatively good grades, has a “perfect” boyfriend, and plays in jazz band. And then it’s all about Evan--at least in Lauren’s mind, becaus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73061838">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38966609">
    <user id="314550">
    <name><![CDATA[Anna]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Dec 02 19:08:37 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a quick read. I enjoyed it enough to want to keep reading, but I can't say I was ever really that interested. The characters were pretty shallow and I had a hard time empathizing with Lauren (the narrator). She was too dull and woe-is-me indecisive, which I don't have a whole lot of patienc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38966609">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38007071">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Sarah Dessen lovers, people who like &quot;Perfect You&quot;]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Nov 20 17:52:07 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very interesting book that gave me a whole new prospective on life. Lauren is at first a &quot;nobody,&quot; but when she starts going out with Dave, everything changes. Dave is perfect. After Lauren becomes his girlfriend, everyone gets very jealous of them, always saying they are the &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38007071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lauren has had a less than perfect life, with two far from perfect examples (her philandering father and absentee mother). It's important to Lauren to not turn out like her parents and for others to not know the truth about her life. Enter Dave, her perfect boyfriend, he has it all: the perfect func...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74899951">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first and favorite Elizabeth Scott novel.  I literally devoured it!  It's your basic story of finding out who you are, who you want to be and who do you want to be with.  Ahh, the beauty of teen angst!  <br/><br/>Lauren has the perfect boyfriend.  Dave's the boy that everyone wants to d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74086816">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Apr 02 19:21:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finally had the chance to pick up Elizabeth Scott's debut bloom which would be my first taste of her writing. Wow! This book may not look long, and the cover may seem a little ordinary - but don't be fooled! bloom certainly delivers a powerful punch in the terms of searching for identity, motivati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51331740">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 15 06:07:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. I thought Lauren was a wonderful character, and that the author did a great job making her seem real and relatable. <br/><br/>This is a great story about a young person realizing that society's expectations of a person, and what you are supposed to want, are not always ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56159403">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 19 16:09:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Bloom</em> starts out as a good but fairly standard, slightly slow-paced teen romance; Lauren has the perfect boyfriend, gorgeous, smart, and athletic Dave, but when Evan Kirkland enters her life, she starts to wonder why her perfect relationship isn't making her happy. As Lauren is more and more drawn t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64138019">more...</a>]]></body>
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