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Bloom

by Elizabeth Scott (Goodreads Author)

3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 · rating details · 7,897 ratings · 431 reviews

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 gorgeou

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Paperback, 231 pages

Published April 24th 2007 by Simon Pulse

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May 26, 2008 Nian rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008

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 change things about her life before she can’t.

I am not impressed with Bloom at all. I guess I had high—extremely high—expectations and was less than pleased when I finally finished reading. I don’t think I...more 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 change things about her life before she can’t.

I am not impressed with Bloom at all. I guess I had high—extremely high—expectations and was less than pleased when I finally finished reading. I don’t think I liked anything about it. Nada.

Lauren is whiny times a hundred. Overboard. She’s always complaining about this or that—yes, teenagers do that, but I have an incredibly hard time sympathizing with her about anything. It’s like her story is so, so forced. Everything screams fake and lifeless. It's terrible when the world the author has created doesn't resonate with me at all. She's so self-absorbed it should be a crime, and I'm left to try to sympathesize, but oh god, I can't.

Since I read Perfect You first, I noticed that Scott likes to repeat things over and over again, and it’s no different here. Line 1: Dave is perfect in every way. Three pages later, Line 2: Dave is smiling that perfect smile of his. Two more pages later, Line 3: Dave even has straight, perfect teeth! The stress on Dave’s perfection drives me crazy. How can anyone be that perfect?! (See, just describing the book has made my sentences repetitive!) And if she’s so upset about how unhappy she’s feeling, why not just save us all the time and dump him and get a life already? GRRRR...

The story is one long soap opera. Nothing ever really happens short for Lauren talking about how she should be happy but isn’t because Dave’s too good for her. It’s only at the last two chapters that Dave finally finds out that they’re not the perfect couple anymore. Normally, you expect the conflict to be resolved like that, but when it comes to books with stories like this, I can’t help but wait for it all to end sooner. The emotions, lines, pages just drags on until finally, the author realizes a little too lately that she has to end it somewhere, and that’s the feeling I get it. It’s all so sudden—not just Dave figuring out that Lauren wasn’t the best girlfriend, but also the father expressing his feelings at the final chapter. He’s been silent and absentee all this time, but wham, he’s saying how sorry he is and talking about the past. Say what? It wasn't a well thought out progress at all. Lame, lame.

But the most important thing is that it’s B O R I N G. I hate to say that, but I just wasn't pleased. Besides the anticipation for something dramatic or even engaging to happen to wake me up from my foggy state of mind, I was just like, “Oh, please,” filled with sarcasm and everything. There wasn't anything exciting or intriguing about the characters, the story line, or even the chemistry in the relationships. Books, movies, you have to be able to experience that sizzling on-screen romance you get from that big screen in the theaters. But here, Evan is more robotic than anything, and Lauren just gets stupider as time ticks away. Perfect match, you say? Not in my world. (less)

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Feb 16, 2013 Nenia Campbell rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-baby-ya, x-2007s

The author did a good job capturing the "voice" of a sixteen-year-old and I probably would have given this book a higher rating if the main character, Lauren, wasn't so repulsive.

I mean, the way she treats her friend in this book was disgusting. Even when her friend Katie's life is basically going to hell, she spends the entire time spewing superficially comforting words while wishing that she was with her man. And half the book is spent cheating on her nice boyfriend with said man. What kind of...more

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Dec 07, 2011 Aleeeeeza rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-read

*3.5 stars*

AND YES, I will admit that I'm adding half a star for those mind-blowingly HOT kisses. Man, this woman can write kissing scenes like nobody's business. Even if the ones kissing have a tendency to make me REALLY want to slap some sense into them.

Also, I hatehateHATE the phrase 'chewed-off smile.' Ms. Scott seems to have a thing for it, but whenever I read it I think of someone literally chewing off the other's smile. And that's just...blech.

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Feb 17, 2009 Angie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: good-uns, ya

Bloom 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 Elizabeth Scott book and she comes highly recommended. Comparisons to Deb Caletti and Sarah Dessen abound and, as I am a big Caletti fan, I was hoping for a nice, cozy read on a snowy February evening.

Lauren is pretty sure she's as average as it gets. The one thing she excels at is playing the clarinet in her school's jazz band, but no one but he...more Bloom 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 Elizabeth Scott book and she comes highly recommended. Comparisons to Deb Caletti and Sarah Dessen abound and, as I am a big Caletti fan, I was hoping for a nice, cozy read on a snowy February evening.

Lauren is pretty sure she's as average as it gets. The one thing she excels at is playing the clarinet in her school's jazz band, but no one but her best friend Katie even knows she plays at all, so that hardly counts. The one un-average thing about her life is her boyfriend Dave--the golden boy. For reasons unfathomable to Lauren, Dave chose her the year before and they've been together ever since. Lauren spends her days in a pleasant, if rather lackluster fog, walking through life on Dave's arm. Enter Evan--a blast from Lauren's past. His mother and her father lived together for a short time when they were kids and the shared trauma of that experience reverberates through each of them when Evan moves back into town and begins attending Lauren's high school.

Bloom was good and I enjoyed it. I kind of flip-flopped with regards to my feelings toward Lauren. In many ways, I really liked her. I liked her dedication to the clarinet and her nervous excitement at being given a solo in the upcoming concert. I liked that it was her secret and I got why she couldn't tell anyone about the one good thing she had going on. She took care of her dad even when he didn't deserve it and she tried (and failed) but she tried to do right by her incredibly nice, incredibly clueless boyfriend. On the flip side, I didn't really like how oblivious she was to her best friend's rapidly disintigrating personal life. I didn't really like how long she let the facade of her relationship with Dave go on. It hurt at least four people more than any of them deserved. Back to likes: I really liked Evan. I really liked the mature (yeah, mature) way he and Lauren got to know each other again. I really liked one particular encounter they had in his kitchen. And I really liked how the two of them approached their parents' collective paranoia and disfunction and chose not to make the same mistakes. Overall, this is a relatively short story with a lot of threads, not all of which were as developed as I would have liked. But it has sweet, humorous, and heartbreaking moments and it was a good read on a snowy February evening.(less)

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Oct 02, 2009 Vivian rated it 4 of 5 stars

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, because he’s all she can think about. Oh, and did I mention that her boyfriend’s name is Dave? Yeah, you read right; Lauren cheats on her boyfriend. But that’s hardly giving away the plot, since it’s fairly obvious fro...more 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, because he’s all she can think about. Oh, and did I mention that her boyfriend’s name is Dave? Yeah, you read right; Lauren cheats on her boyfriend. But that’s hardly giving away the plot, since it’s fairly obvious from the beginning of the book that this is what’s going to happen. It’s not really about what happens with Lauren and Dave when they’re at school, or what happens with Lauren and Evan when they’re not, but it’s more about being inside Lauren’s head, and seeing how she plans to deal with the situations that she’s created for herself.

The book opens by Lauren whining about not being able to drop a class that she doesn’t like, World History. In fact, the very first lines are, “I guess I kept hoping some kind of miracle would happen. It wasn’t even like I was asking for a big one. I mean, I didn’t want someone to come along and give me straight A’s or perfect hair or anything. I just didn’t want to take one lousy class. That’s not too much to ask for, right?” She then proceeds to complain about this class for a bit in the first chapter, then gets on to start talking about her life, her best friend, Katie, and her boyfriend, Dave. As she’s talking about her life, she hits on the subject of her parents: Lauren lives with her father, because her mother left them when Lauren was about six. This plays into the book a lot, and she learns a lot about herself in relation to her parents.

Moving the plot along, something rather important happens in World History class. There Lauren meets Evan Kirkland—meets him again, I should say. As you find out through a series of flashbacks, Evan is the son of Mary, a woman who had gone out with Lauren’s father a couple years previously. Lauren and Evan were good friends when they knew each other, but they lost touch after Mary and Lauren’s father broke up. In spending more and more time with Evan, Lauren begins to question her safe relationship and boring life. She also realizes that she loves who she is with Evan, but she’s also scared. This is where her mother factors back into the story. Lauren starts to wonder that if by cheating on Dave with Evan, she’s turning into her mother, who had a wild streak, which is why she left. Lauren starts to struggle inwardly over whether to stay with Dave, or with Evan, with safe, or with wild.

It is at this point that the book becomes more than a cheesy teen-romance book. When Lauren starts to debate within herself over the whole “cheating” scenario, she also starts to think more about her parents, their motives for doing things they did, and if she’s going to end up like them: mainly unhappy. This is more mature topic than is normally encountered in these types of books and it was refreshing to read it and see how Lauren figures things out and takes charge of her life.

I may sound somewhat critical of the book, but I really did enjoy it; the book itself is actually written very well. It talks about more mature topics than just the daily grind of high school, which really, if you think about it, isn’t that exciting. As stated earlier, I liked that Lauren had to make decisions in her life that were more than just what color to paint her nails; she was virtually deciding between two different futures: one with Dave and one with Evan. It made me think about why we do the things we do, and how the things that we do when we’re young can affect us for the rest of our lives.
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Oct 18, 2009 Princess Bookie rated it 5 of 5 stars

My Thoughts: This is my second Elizabeth Scott book. I will be reading more from her! I heart her! I particularly enjoyed this book and didn't want it to end. As I flipped the pages and got closer to the end, it left me sad. I enjoyed it a lot! I love that Lauren runs into Evan after so many years and they have an instant connection. Not so much as brother and sister (their parents were dating) but more like a connection into their souls. I loved watching the chemistry between them and the way t...more

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Jun 01, 2009 Katy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-comfort-reads, my-favorite-books-ever

Elizabeth Scott is an amazing writer. I never knew about her books, until this: I fell upon them while I was at Borders looking for the author Keiran Scott(A Non-Blonde Cheerleader Series),next to her I saw the name Elizabeth Scott and I saw the cover of Perfect You and picked it up because the cover looked interesting. I read the plot, very good as well. So I Bought It. I read that and loved it, so I looked up her name and went to Borders and bought Bloom . And this is where my review begins.
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Jul 10, 2007 shana naomi rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: my family of teachers

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 way my favorite books growing up were.

here's what i wrote to elizabeth then:

"i loved that you never let easy assumptions lie, i fucking laughed the hell out loud on a quiet plane when dave wasn't ga...more

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May 28, 2007 Lucy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: teen

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 why is Lauren so unhappy? It takes the arrival of Evan Kirkland, a guy from her distant past, to wake Lauren up. With Evan, she feels different. It's not just that Evan excites her - when she's with Evan,...more

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Mar 25, 2013 Lou Ella rated it 3 of 5 stars

Bloom is somewhat a cliché love story: she has the perfect boyfriend, a loving but insecure-when-it-comes-to-her-boyfriend best friend, and the other guy. Lauren, the main character, realizes how she's not happy with her boyfriend for almost a year and a half boyfriend, Dave and instead of breaking up with him, she finds happiness with the other guy, Evan, who happens to be the son of her father's ex-girlfriend. Lauren doesn't tell her best friend, Katie, because she knows she's going to be mad...more

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Jan 02, 2013 Noura rated it 1 of 5 stars

Oh my lord....
After reading the blurb I had fairly good expectations of this story but oh my god it was beyond boring. At one point I was forcing myself to keep reading to the end.
The entire plot line consisted of Lauren whining on and on about how she's for a perfect boyfriend but isn't happy and he's too good for her, whilst also thinking about touching and kissing Evan whilst her boyfriend was talking to her. HELLO?! Dump him maybe? Like any other person would
Then there was the structure of...more

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Dec 24, 2012 Jami rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was a cute little book about a girl who is faking her entire relationship with her seemingly perfect boyfriend which is all well and good for her until her ex-stepbrother comes back to town and she's smitten with him.

Much of the book is just Lauren saying over and over and over again how her bf is perfect and she wishes she was perfect too. Okay, we get it. There's way too much of that. In fact I could have used only a hundred pages or so of "He's so perfect, how can I dump him?" and then m...more

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Dec 03, 2012 Caitlin rated it 5 of 5 stars

I gave this book five stars because I think it's an amazing book. I really enjoyed the way she tells the story. It's easy to follow and it has a good plot. The book is about a girl named Lauren and she's nothing but ordinary. She doesn't think very highly of herself, but she does of her boyfriend. Her boyfriend is perfect, he's popular, good at everything he does, has a lot of friends, girl drool over him all the time and he has a perfect family. But he doesn't understand that he knows nothing a...more

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Dec 01, 2012 Sarah rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is really good. I loved it from start to finish.

This book is about a girl, Lauren and two boys, Dave and Evan. Her mom left when she was little and the only family she has is her dad, who works all the time,goes through girlfriend afte girlfriend, and doesn't really understand how to be a part of a family.

Lauren and Dave are boyfriend and girlfriend. Dave is popular and Lauren is only because she is his girlfriend, and she doesnt fit in with any crowd, and even he r best friend, Kati...more

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Nov 15, 2012 Laney Berry rated it 1 of 5 stars

LORD, am I glad that's over.

It wasn't any one thing about this book that bothered me-- just, absolutely everything put together made it into a complete catastrophe. Another review on here described all of Lauren's problems as feeling forced, fake... Well, that's absolutely spot-on.

I'm too old to be reading young adult novels, mind you, and maybe this would have been considered acceptable to someone in high school, or perhaps middle school, but this book could be summed up as the following: whine...more

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Nov 08, 2012 Karlie B rated it 4 of 5 stars

Bloom by Elizabeth Scott is a great teenage romance novel. It is about a seventeen year old high school girl named Lauren who seems to have the perfect life; the dream boyfriend, great best friend, and has all the right looks. So then why is she unhappy, inside?

First of all, her mother left Lauren and her father when Lauren was four years old, and her father isn’t home all that much because he is constantly working. In this part of the book, I felt Lauren’s pain because even though I still have...more Bloom by Elizabeth Scott is a great teenage romance novel. It is about a seventeen year old high school girl named Lauren who seems to have the perfect life; the dream boyfriend, great best friend, and has all the right looks. So then why is she unhappy, inside?

First of all, her mother left Lauren and her father when Lauren was four years old, and her father isn’t home all that much because he is constantly working. In this part of the book, I felt Lauren’s pain because even though I still have both of my parents, they got a divorce when I was five. Also, my mom is a single mother who works all the time, which is hard sometimes.

Secondly, Lauren is unhappy because around Dave, she feels like she can never be her true self. She feels like she always has to be “perfect.” My first reaction to this was that honestly.. even though he might be this amazingly hot guy who is perfect in every way, get rid of him! If a girl can’t be herself around a guy or vice versa, that’s not a good relationship, and it won’t go very far in the future.

Lauren re-meets a guy named Evan Kirk in World History class, which she ironically wanted to drop. She has met Evan before, but many years ago when her father dated his mother. After the parents broke up, they lost touch and never spoke again, until now. In this part of the book, I was a little disappointed because I feel like Elizabeth Scott made it so obvious that Lauren and Evan would eventually hook up somehow, and that all I wanted to do was skip to the end of the book to find out if it was true and how it happened.

Gradually, Lauren and Evan start talking more and more, and eventually develop feelings for each other (as I predicted). This causes great conflict for Lauren, simply because she still has a boyfriend, Dave, who she doesn’t see herself being with in the future, like he does. She ends up cheating on Dave secretly with Evan, and this forces her to make a decision between the two guys. Out of all of this, I think that Lauren acted the way she did because she didn’t want to end up doing the same thing to her family in the future like her mother did to her. Because of that, I feel that Lauren didn’t want to break up with Dave so she could see that if things didn’t work out as well as she’d hoped with Evan, then she would still have Dave. As shallow as this part in the book sounds, I did feel some sympathy toward Lauren because she just wants to be happy. But overall at this part of the book, I was frustrated because I think cheating is one of the worst things that people can do to each other.

Overall, I think Elizabeth Scott did a fantastic job at creating a book that shows how high school relationships and friends are not always “cookie cutter perfect.” Some people may have read this book and thought that Lauren was just a selfish girl who played two guys, but I read the book and saw so much more in not only Lauren, but also how this relates to so many high school students and how hard high school, friends, and relationships can truly be sometimes.
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May 30, 2012 Taylor Dansby added it

The main character Lauren is a good conservative girl who seems to live the perfect life. She has the jock boyfriend, named Dave, that everyone wants, good grades, and a great best friend. However not everything is all great for her. Her mother left her when she was a young girl around the age of five; her dad is constantly working and never seems to care about how she feels nor does she even really see him because he is constantly at work or in his office and on his phone. To herself she seems...more

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Apr 19, 2012 Your Need To Read added it

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Lauren’s life is perfect, but she’s not happy. Wah, wah, wah...my heart bleeds for her. This book is one long story of indecision; if you know me at all, you know I hate people (and characters) who are indecisive! She’s got this really cute boyfriend who is kind and comes from a good family, but she feels as though she has to pretend to be a different person when she is with him. Hey, that happens sometimes. Just because a guy is cute doesn...more Full review here
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Lauren’s life is perfect, but she’s not happy. Wah, wah, wah...my heart bleeds for her. This book is one long story of indecision; if you know me at all, you know I hate people (and characters) who are indecisive! She’s got this really cute boyfriend who is kind and comes from a good family, but she feels as though she has to pretend to be a different person when she is with him. Hey, that happens sometimes. Just because a guy is cute doesn’t mean you are going to have chemistry together. I can see going along with it for a while to see if something develops, but when it doesn’t, move on.

Instead, Lauren mopes around about how miserable she is. When Evan, a boy from her past, moves back to town, the chemistry between them heats up. But rather than break up with her boyfriend and go for it with Evan, Lauren sneaks around and cheats on him, making me dislike her even more. Her reason for staying with him (so she wouldn’t be like her mother) was lame, and the logic of it never really connected with me. At least Evan has a conscience about his role in the cheating. Lauren just mopes along hoping not to get caught.

It also bothered me that Lauren treats her “best friend” Katie like crap. Katie is going through a lot in her life, but Lauren is too busy moping to notice. (Seriously, Lauren makes Bella Swan seem like the most carefree, happy girl in literature.) I found myself more interested in what is going on with Katie at home, but the author never really develops that story line, which is a real missed opportunity in my opinion.

This story might also have been improved by the author developing the back story of Lauren and Evan. As children, Evan’s mother and Lauren’s dad dated and moved in together for a while. There could have been a really cool storyline developed from that, but instead, it just sort of gets dropped. There could have been some reason why the two had to rely on each other because of problems at home. Or there might have been some dramatic break when Evan and his mother moved away. Unfortunately, her dad was just a jerk of a boyfriend...end of story.

Overall, I give Bloom...

Plot - 2 1/2 bookmarks
Character development - 2 bookmarks (and the only reason I’m being that generous is because I liked Evan.)
Love story - 1 bookmark (Evan should have hooked up with Katie instead.)
Dream cast (otherwise known as who I pictured while reading) - Sarah Hyland (Lauren), Cassie Scerbo (Katie), Kendall Schmidt (Evan), Hunter Parrish (Dave)
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May 15, 2011 Rachel rated it 3 of 5 stars

I think all girls have, once in their life, dreamt of having the perfect boyfriend. Handsome face, gentleman, smart, rich, athletic, thoughtful, caring, loyal... you name it. Lauren thinks she should be lucky that of all the girls in the whole student body, it's she that Dave chose. The perfect boyfriend all the girls dreamt of. But for some reason, Lauren is not happy. Not with Dave. Instead, she finds happiness from a boy who’s the opposite of perfection.

It's easy to hate Lauren and condemn he...more

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Jan 11, 2011 CeCe rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Oct 28, 2010 Abbie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Bloom is about a seventeen year-old Lauren. Lauren has the perfect life; she's pretty, popular, and is dating the most popular boy in school. The only not perfect part is her detached father who never comes home because Lauren's mother left them awhile ago. When an old friend (Evan) comes back to school, Lauren's world is turned upside down, not only because she begins to realize she hates having to appear "perfect" all the time, but because Evan is the son of her father's ex-girlfriend who left...more

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Aug 16, 2010 Michelle Pham rated it 1 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Honestly, I wasn't very fond of this book. At all. It was just so... annoying. I hated the main character, and if I hate the main character, why should I even finish the book? I did, of course, but I ended up skimming a lot of it.

Lauren is an average girl who has a practically non-existent best friend named Katie and an all-too-perfect boyfriend named Dave. Enter Evan, the boy from her childhood, whom she quickly falls in love with for a reason I'm not 100 percent sure of except for the fact tha...more

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Jul 26, 2010 Anita rated it 4 of 5 stars

The summary for the back of the book really does this book justice. Bloom truly is about Lauren coming into her own, figuring out for herself the difference between what looks good on the outside, and what feels right on the inside. She is able to work through wondering if she'll be like her mother, and her hard feelings for her father and his lack of attention in her life. Her personal growth throughout the book is noticeable.

Elizabeth Scott has really captured the heart of a teenage girl in La...more

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Jun 12, 2010 Angelia Fransisca Rusli rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ya

Being pretty much average & broken home, Lauren Lee Smith was far from happy. Okay, she got Dave, a perfect boyfriend who happened to also have a perfect family & Katie, her awesome best friend.

With Dave, her life was just simple & nice. Moreover, being popular and smart didn't make him a jerk like Laura had thought. He's actually very nice. And he loved her so much. Lauren didn't understand why Dave would date her while he could be with anyone.

It may sounds perfect. Except that bei...more

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Sep 28, 2012 Kate rated it 3 of 5 stars

I remembered reading Bloom a few years ago and really enjoying it...when I was fourteen. The writing was repetitive, I found Lauren to be an asshole (the kind you can't like in spite of their assholeness; ie, the bad kind), and overall the relationship between Lauren and Evan came off as pretty incestuous to me. I know they weren't ACTUALLY related or anything, but the whole our-parents-used-to-date-when-we-were-kids-so-we-were-basically-step-siblings-but-now-we're-dating is kinda creepy to me....more

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Jan 19, 2012 Ariel rated it 5 of 5 stars

I really liked this book! It was a quick read but it was jam packed with a lot of intense feelings.

Lauren, the main character, she was kind of annoying. How as she was seeing Evan(who is totally awesome) and all her feelings about feeling free and happy YET not break-up with her boyfriend Dave, totally was werid.

I didn't like how through-out the whole book she was so sad and depressed and wouldn't tell anyone anything. I also didn't like how at the end all of sudden she breaks down(although it...more

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Aug 03, 2011 Zemira Warner rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: fans of good YA romance

Shelves: contemporary, hot-guys, romance, favorite

I think Scott wrote this book to show the problems teenagers go through in high school. The book deals with relationships, divorced parents, friends and school. Scott displays these topics in a way that is relatable and interesting to the reader. I highly suggest this book.

The overall feel of this book was surprisingly complex. The romance view was fantastic; it was steamy without being graphic, it was sweet without being overtly so, it was understandable while being slightly incredible. Evan wa...more

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Sep 23, 2010 Nina ♥ rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: readers looking for a quick read.

Summary: Lauren is miserable. When she was only a child, he mom abandoned her and his father and never came back. And her father might as well have. He's never home and is rarely there for her when she needs someone to talk to. But she has a gorgeous boyfriend whom any girl would kill to be with and a great best friend, and that almost makes up for her absent father. She's not exactly happy, but she's content; and she's content with being content. She's convinced that if she let loose any of her...more Summary: Lauren is miserable. When she was only a child, he mom abandoned her and his father and never came back. And her father might as well have. He's never home and is rarely there for her when she needs someone to talk to. But she has a gorgeous boyfriend whom any girl would kill to be with and a great best friend, and that almost makes up for her absent father. She's not exactly happy, but she's content; and she's content with being content. She's convinced that if she let loose any of her wild side--the one she inherited from her mother--she might end up exactly like her, the mother who left her without a single look back. It takes the arrival of Evan Kirkland to realize exactly what she's missing out. With Evan, she feels free, more like herself than the Lauren she is with her other friends. And as Dave starts talking more and more about their future together, Lauren must decide what she really wants, who she really wants.

Review: I didn't particularity love this book, but I didn't hate it either. The plot was cliche. Some parts of it were really bad, flat and boring. But it was...not bad.

My only problem was Lauren. I hated her. Gosh, she was so whiny! I couldn't stand her. From page 1 she starts talking about how miserable her life is, how she doesn't deserve her boyfriend, how she's a terrible friend, etc... 'til the end.

I liked Evan. He sounded really mature, and (surprise, surprise) hot. (Seriously, I can't tell you a book where I didn't fall for one of the characters.) I just didn't get why he fell in love with Lauren. And vice-versa. I mean, they barely even knew each other!

Dave. Did not like him. I don't like "perfect" people. He was smiling throughout the book. Ugh. The whole time I was reading about him I was thinking, Poor, oblivious bastard... Anyway, he annoyed me. Partly because was just too perfect, and partly because he showed no emotion at all.

I really liked Lauren's best friend Katie, and her other friend, Gail. I wanted to know more about Katie's family. Why she was the one taking care of her twin brothers and not his parents. Gail was cool too, and I would've loved to read about her and Jennie a little more.

The ending with her dad wasn't as hopeful and emotional in my opinion. They just have a short, awkward conversation and...that's it.

So, yeah. I have nothing else to say. I recommend this book for readers looking for a quick, short, simple read.

Overall, it was...not bad.(less)

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Aug 06, 2010 Niratisaya Niratisaya rated it 3 of 5 stars

book #2 of Ms. Scott that I read.

sejujurnya, setelah membaca Perfect You sebagai bacaan yang pertama, saya mengharapkan ada yang lebih dalam Bloom, tapi sepertinya tidak. Bahkan bisa saya katakan, Scott melangkah mundur selangkah.

oke, mungkin dia ingin menciptakan sosok Dave sebagai pacar yang sempurna, tapi rasanya dia tidak perlu mengulang2 kata 'perfect' berkali-kali saat menghubungkan Dave dengan istilah sempurna. Senyum yang sempurna, pacar yang sempurna,....

tapi di luar itu, Scott masih b...more

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May 22, 2010 Audrey (holes In My brain) rated it 1 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Why I disliked the book:

1. Lauren was too boy-crazy. Every thought she had was Evan Evan Evan Dave Evan Evan Evan Evan. I get sick of the realllll fast. And the book is 231 pages of this nonstop…

2. She thought her relationship with Dave was ‘boring’ and ‘safe’ because Dave didn’t want to ‘take it to the next level’. Do some role reversing, does this sound right? And she kind threw her virginity in Evan’s direction… This whole sex debocle didn't sit right with me.

3. I don’t get how she could bef...more

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