A lyrical, gut-wrenching novel about first love, broken friendships, twins, and heartache, from the author of "Nothing Like You."
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Nov 09, 2010
Princess Bookie
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My Thoughts: I really wanted to love this as I really enjoyed Nothing Like You but this one was just ok to me. We meet Alex who is new to town and her friends Fred and Adina who are twins. I know there was just something not right about them, or more about Adina. I could tell right away that Alex and Fred were a good match but throw in Adina and I know nothing good could come out of it. She was just in the way the whole time! I wanted to tell her to get her own life. Some would say she wanted to
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Sep 22, 2011
Amy
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I wasn't sure what I was expecting with this book, but what did happen was not it. I was expecting some angst filled romance between and boy and a girl. Throw in a psycho sister and you get the mix of this book.
I felt a little dizzy trying to keep up with everything in this book. One minute we are reading a sweet scene between Alex and Fred, then his weirdo sister comes and wrecks everything with her attitude and psycho behavior. What was so confusing though was when his sister A More...
I felt a little dizzy trying to keep up with everything in this book. One minute we are reading a sweet scene between Alex and Fred, then his weirdo sister comes and wrecks everything with her attitude and psycho behavior. What was so confusing though was when his sister A More...
Jun 02, 2011
Triss
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When I first read the summary, I thought oooo this is gonna be like a cool dark thriller. I was way wrong. When I started to get more and more into it I was thinking that the twins adina and Fred were vampires and both were going to seduce Alex. I was way off on that. Apparently, Adina is an attention whore that has some sickening crush on her twin?????? or is just bi-curious for Alex and also sees the need to have affections for her brother??? I don't know ? I also wondered how Alex had money
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Jan 09, 2011
Kyleigh
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When I read the synopsis of this book I really wasn’t all that intrigued, but I figured I would give it a shot. Turned out I have better instincts than I give myself credit for. What drove me absolutely crazy with this book was that it had no relevance. Nothing. Nada. The pages could have been full of drawings to color in and it would have more content than the story. Okay maybe that was a bit harsh. I may be exaggerating just a tad. I just can’t even begin to express my frustration with
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Dec 21, 2010
Phoebe
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I was very excited to pick up Lauren Strasnick's sophomore novel, Her and Me and You after loving her first book. Nothing Like You was one of my favorite reads this year--dark, sparse, but still lovingly told, the story of a girl dealing, often unsuccessfully, with her grief over her mother's death. Her and Me and You promised similar delicious angst. It's the story of Alex, a girl who moves away with her mom after her father takes in a new girlfriend. It promised to be a complicated tale of the
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Oct 30, 2010
Sakura
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I just finished this book. It didn't take me too long and am glad because if it would have been a really long book with that kind of ending I would have been really mad. I am a bit mad right now though- i really connected with the character, her situation, and i loved Fred but it was like this: walking all the way across town to the only ice cream place on a really hot summer afternoon, getting there, ordering your ice creams, paying, sitting down, being like wow this ice cream rocks and then ha
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Sep 11, 2010
Megan
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I got an ARC copy of this book and read it in about 2.5 hours. It's short and fast paced (it's all conversation with very little description). I really dug the style of this book and the way action and emotion were played out in mostly dialogue.
It was an unusal story and an enjoyable one. It was more like a long short story. The major character arches happened to secondary characters, though the main character did soften up a bit and learn to accept her situation - so it was strange More...
It was an unusal story and an enjoyable one. It was more like a long short story. The major character arches happened to secondary characters, though the main character did soften up a bit and learn to accept her situation - so it was strange More...
Nov 03, 2011
Ally
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Alex is the new girl in town. It's not like she wanted to move. Because she absolutely didn't want to move. But she did, against her will. There, she meets Fred. He's the first friend she's made in the lonely dump of the town. But she soon meets Adina, Fred's troubled, dangerous, chaotic, twin sister. People at the school warn Alex to stay away from the Twin's but she can't seem to help herself. No matter the consequences.
Just putting it out there right now: This book is strange. If More...
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Aug 11, 2010
Brittany
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After Alex's dad has an affair her mom and her move to a new town. There she makes a new friend in Fred and is thereby forced into a friendship with his twin, Adina. Adina seems to flirt with her... and Fred. The other girls Alex meets at school tell her to stay away from the twins, because they are bad news. But, when things with her old best friend start to crumble she has no choice but to cling to Fred for life support. Adina however, could do without Alex hogging her brother and may try anyt
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Oct 19, 2010
Andrea
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Umm...yeah. I don't really know what to say about this book. It only took me about an hour to read. Thank goodness. I think if it took longer I would have been upset at wasting my time.
This book was just so flat for me. Alex is a complete pushover. Her best friend from back home, Evie, isn't very nice to her. Adina is just plain awful and Fred sticks up for Adina's behavior. And Alex knows that her behavior isn't right but hangs around anyway More...
Umm...yeah. I don't really know what to say about this book. It only took me about an hour to read. Thank goodness. I think if it took longer I would have been upset at wasting my time.
This book was just so flat for me. Alex is a complete pushover. Her best friend from back home, Evie, isn't very nice to her. Adina is just plain awful and Fred sticks up for Adina's behavior. And Alex knows that her behavior isn't right but hangs around anyway More...
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Oct 30, 2010
Gabriel
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Strasnick's second novel is an intricate understanding of America's youth which emerges through the story of one's navigation through the turmoil of young adulthood. I believe Strasnick's voice as an author is a decisive insight into the experience of growing up american, postmodern and globalized. It is important to try to see this novel as an insight into confusing and complex themes that many youths share. Those who cannot to see the complexities might be filtering that which they read o
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Nov 08, 2010
Kayla
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Sep 12, 2010
Love YA Lit
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Nora's Review: Her and Me and You is unique in that it presents teenage relationships as weird, confusing, and not especially romantic or fun. Basically, Alex moves to a neighboring town when her dad leaves her mom for another woman. Alex feels obligated to move with her mother, as her mother is completely falling apart. Plus, she is furious with her father. The result is that Alex is separated from her best friend, with whom she “practices” kissing on a regular basis.
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Jan 13, 2011
Dawn
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Imagine Ernest Hemingway as a teenage girl, and that's Lauren Strasnick's distinctive voice in this book. It's lean and straightforward: no wasted words. An editor's dream.
And the content: involves an interesting and sinister love triangle. You'll just have to read it to see.
And the content: involves an interesting and sinister love triangle. You'll just have to read it to see.
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Nov 07, 2010
Vicki
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Shades of V.C. Andrews. A book about the weird relationship between a set of twins, one boy, one a girl, and the narrator, a new girl in town with a messed up family life. The writing is interesting and sharp, but you'll have to learn to live with learning the scene only through dialog and fleeting looks. The real trouble is the ending. Everybody is likable (or "hatable", if that's what they're meant to be) enough. The set-up is fascinating. But the fact that it only skims on the
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Dec 31, 2010
Amber
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Alex’s favorite parent, her father, cheated on her mother. Big time. He is not so much her favorite anymore. But neither is her mother. Alex chooses to move to her mother’s hometown with her because her mother is a mess from this development. Crying, depressed, drunk. All the time. Alex is miserable. New school, no friends. Her only and best friend, Evie, is back home and moving on without her. But then Alex meets Fred and his twin sister Adina. And things become weird and creep and sort of wond
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Mar 01, 2011
StorySnoops
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Her and Me and You is a speed read that explores the tearing apart and rebuilding of relationships set against the backdrop of troubled families. There are three "triad" relationships in the book: the primary one, between Fred and Alex, with the jealous, manipulative Adina causing trouble for them; the changing relationship between Alex, her dearest friend Evie and Evie's boyfriend, as Evie falls in love and becomes sexually active for the first time; and then, the relationship between
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Feb 22, 2012
Christine
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Another fast read by Strasnick, this book was captivating in its depiction of a set of twins and the girl who comes between them. I must admit I am very glad I never met twins like this when I was in high school.
Alex's life seemed rooted in reality - her parents' divorce is still sharp and new as she and her mom move to a small town; her best friend draws away from her while falling in love; her mom struggles with alcohol and depression, while her dad is now living with his young cru More...
Alex's life seemed rooted in reality - her parents' divorce is still sharp and new as she and her mom move to a small town; her best friend draws away from her while falling in love; her mom struggles with alcohol and depression, while her dad is now living with his young cru More...
Oct 17, 2011
Bethany
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Alex and her mother move to Meadow Marsh after her parents’ separation. Alex is angry with her father for having an affair and sad about having to move away from her best friend. Her mother is devastated by her husband’s infidelity and using alcohol to help her cope. From the first day at her new school, Alex is immediately drawn to twins Fred and Adina. Fred becomes her first friend in town while Adina is cold and distant. As Alex and Fred become closer, Adina’s behavior towards Alex becom
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Dec 02, 2010
Todd
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After Alex's parents separate, she moves with her alcoholic mother to a nearby Connecticut town. She quickly befriends Fred and Adina, brother and sister twins who are considered slightly more than quirky among other students at Alex's new high school. Strasnick's fast-paced, first-person novel deftly explores the ennui of dissatisfied teens, with accurate dialogue and actions. The exaggeration of importance in every word, move, and decision in a teen's life is well-explored. Largely absent f
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Sep 18, 2010
Laura (Bookish Belle)
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This book is absolutely beautiful and I can't wait to get my hands on a finished copy! I always have been a Lauren fan with her Nothing Like You novel, and this one didn't disappoint at all. I laughed and cried right along with Alex and could really relate to her. It's so easy for characters (especially heroines) to become whiny and obnoxious but I find with Lauren, she makes her characters strong and likable.
I highly recommend this book to anyone, it's a great novel with a beautiful m More...
I highly recommend this book to anyone, it's a great novel with a beautiful m More...
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Sep 30, 2010
Nikki (Wicked Awesome Books)
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I’m not quite sure how I feel about Her and Me and You. I enjoyed the overall storyline and the characters were intriguing, but, by the end, the book still felt incomplete.
After Alex’s dad has an affair and breaks her family apart, she moves with her mess of a mother to her deceased grandma’s house a few hours away. Without her best friend Evie and her favorite parent, Alex feels isolated and alone.
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After Alex’s dad has an affair and breaks her family apart, she moves with her mess of a mother to her deceased grandma’s house a few hours away. Without her best friend Evie and her favorite parent, Alex feels isolated and alone.
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Nov 21, 2011
Jessicax3
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So this book had its ups and downs but it was horrible at the end..They leave the ending unfinished and it doesnt neatly finish the story. Adina doesnt really do anything, she trys to kill herself for a sstupid reason and im actually really happy that she gets that it is stupid, im also really happy that it made her look really stupid. It kept her mouth shut for a whileeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. If she keeps stalking her brother's girlfriends, she's gonna look so messy. Alex got Fred and they are cut
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Jan 11, 2011
Tiffany
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Mar 18, 2011
Kat
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Not gonna lie, I was sort of hoping for some polyamorous action (spoiler!) but while that didn't happen, I still really really enjoyed this. The writing style is sparse, which is my favourite kind, and really pulled me in. The chapters are short and have a sort of moody disconnectedness sometimes but that was perfect for the atmosphere of the novel.
At 171 pages, it's a fairly quick read but that's not to say that nothing happens because lots happens. Adina is the perfect crazy prote More...
At 171 pages, it's a fairly quick read but that's not to say that nothing happens because lots happens. Adina is the perfect crazy prote More...
May 05, 2011
Ricki
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I can add this to the list of bizarre books that I've read this year. I really liked the writing style. It grabbed me in the first few pages. Alex's father had an affair, and she is forced to move with her mom and join a new school. She meets two twins, Fred and Adina, and although everyone in school warns her to steer away from them, she is drawn to Fred and befriends them. Fred is a bit more normal, but Adina is strange and clearly doesn't want anyone to break the bond she has with her twin.
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Mar 11, 2011
Sheryl
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I am honestly not sure what to say about this one. It had a good premise and I wanted to like it, but it just didn't deliver. When Alex moves to a new town, she befriends Fred and his twin sister Adina. Alex is romantically interested in Fred, but the twins have a strange and twisted relationship. Adina is violently jealous of Alex spending time alone with Fred and does some extreme things to prevent this from happening. Then after Adina is seriously injured, she suddenly decides to not further
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Nov 28, 2011
Onna
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I read this on a whim lastnight. It was in my bag of books I had randomly grabbed on my last library trip. I read it in less than an hour. It was a whirlwind! All over the place but I couldn't stop reading it. The characters are those you would want to spy on and become friends with, but you would stay away. Why? I guess out of fear, but not exactly.
I can't believe so many hated this book! Okay, the plot isn't strong. No life shattering message, but I loved it. It flowed so easily. More...
I can't believe so many hated this book! Okay, the plot isn't strong. No life shattering message, but I loved it. It flowed so easily. More...
May 15, 2011
Christena
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Okay. So this book was good but it was one of the weirdest books I have read. The characters were interesting. Especially Fred and Adina. I mean what's up with her!? I think I just felt sorry for them and the whole mystery around them.
Okay but i still thought that it was a good book. I liked how for the whole one and a half hours it took me to read it I was wondering and thinking and I think I was just absorbed in it all. But after I finished I was a bit confused about the whole thing. I still More...
Okay but i still thought that it was a good book. I liked how for the whole one and a half hours it took me to read it I was wondering and thinking and I think I was just absorbed in it all. But after I finished I was a bit confused about the whole thing. I still More...
Feb 23, 2011
Claire
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This book is about a girl named Alex, who moves in with her mom in a new town after her dad cheats on her mom with a younger woman, who is now his girlfriend. At school, she meets a guy named Fred, and his twin sister Adina. She instantly loves Fred, but one second Adina will be her friend, the next she will be pyscho! Her friend Evie gets a new boyfriend, and leaves her behind, so she is forced to hang out with both Fred and Adina, even though she just wants to be with Fred. Will their new rela
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