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Her and Me and You

by Lauren Strasnick (Goodreads Author)

3.12 of 5 stars 3.12 · rating details · 418 ratings · 115 reviews

First love, broken friendships, and heartache all play a part in this evocative, voice-driven novel about Alex, a girl whose world is ripped apart when her father’s affair splits her family in two.

Alex moves with her mess of a mother to a new town, where she is befriended by hot, enigmatic Fred—and alternately flirted with and cold-shouldered by Fred’s twin sister, Adina....more

Hardcover, 208 pages

Published October 5th 2010 by Simon Pulse

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Dec 21, 2010 Phoebe added it

Shelves: young-adult, contemporary

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...more 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 triangles formed between teenagers and the other parties in their lives: Alex and her father and his girlfriend, Alex and her best friend and her best friend's boy, Alex and her boyfriend and her boyfriend's twin sister.

Strasnick's prose remains both dark and spare. She clearly knows how to handle her sparse stylistics, and manages to deeply evoke the wintery environment shown on the cover even in a volume composed mostly of dialog. Unfortunately, her command of the pacing felt off here, and it interfered with my enjoyment of the story of Alex's complicated life.

You see, this isn't so much a novel as a novella. That, in and of itself, isn't particularly problematic, though I was quite disappointed to find that my ebook was only 131 pages long, with thirty pages of that a sampler of Strasnick's first book. However, I could have forgiven that if the story's development had been tighter, and more fitting for the volume's slim length.

But it's not. Her and Me and You takes a very long time to become engaging. While I was immediately drawn in to Strasnick's debut, this follow-up took a good fifty-or-so pages to get going--and in a format this focused, I'm afraid that she just didn't have that many pages to spare. Alex and her love interest Fred spend a significant length of time waffling in their feelings over one another, but, though this is true to life, I didn't feel like I had quite enough of a relationship with Alex to remain riveted.

More interesting was both her, and Fred's, relationship with Fred's twin sister Adina. Adina is the kind of cool, but slightly evil friend that's usually termed a "frenemy" in modern YA--but she's rendered far more realistically and compellingly. And her relationship with Fred is fascinating. Why does he support her like he does? Why does she try to control his relationships? Is there something romantic lurking there, or is this just a reaction to the fact that their mother is dead and their father has all-but-abandoned them?

As I read deeper into the story of Fred and Adina, I became increasingly engaged. This is where Her and Me and You shines, in examining the fucked-up, confusing relationship between the twins, and all through the eyes of Alex, an interloper. The last third of the book was exciting and addictive.

Unfortunately, it all ends abruptly and with a rosy optimism that both didn't appeal to me personally and didn't seem to be a fitting end for what we read before. While I was fascinated by what I found deep within this book once it gained speed, because it prevaricated through its slim first half, and because the ending was ultimately unsatisfying, I can't recommend it without hesitation. Readers interested in Strasnick might be smart to pick up her debut--thrilling, beautiful, and flawless--before they take a look at Her and Me and You.(less)

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Nov 09, 2010 Princess Bookie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: read2010

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...more

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Jun 08, 2012 Andrew rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

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Slammed through this book through the night since I couldn't sleep; a book that I'd picked up a while back and grabbed since it seemed fairly shorter than the other books that I typically read. Honestly, I must say, I was extremely mislead by the back of the book, and I don't think that the sentences chosen were accurate; but that doesn't really matter, so I'm not even sure why I'm adding that in.

I don't think that this book is too different from any typical first teenage love story. You've got

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May 31, 2012 Danielle rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 100-books-in-2012, bought-in-2012, pbsb-i-ve-sent

Just honestly, WTF? This was an interesting 4.5 star book. Missing half a star because the main character was a bit pathetic like most girls in Young Adult books.

You know falling in love with a guy and not knowing how the hell to tell him, or get him to like her back. Pathetically gooshing over him well being pathetic. She should have dropped him on his reend halfway through the book.

Anyways it was a very good interesting read. It didn't seem like it had a huge plot or anything it was rather sim...more

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Sep 22, 2011 Amy Jacobs rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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 Adina would chang...more

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Jun 02, 2011 Triss rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Bored people or teens

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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 h...more

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Jan 09, 2011 Kyleigh rated it 1 of 5 stars

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 this bo...more 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 this book. It had all the potential in the world to be a pretty decent read. Sometimes potential is just not enough.

While I am all for unique writing style, I have to say I did not enjoy reading this. It was choppy and about 90% of it was dialogue. Dialogue is all well and good, but even the dialogue didn’t hold much in the way of interest. It was short, choppy, and really rather uninteresting. There was no descriptors to accompany the dialogue either. Maybe on a rare occasion…maybe. For instance instead of ‘“I do not have a crush on Fred,” I replied indignantly, feeling my cheeks turn red,’ it was “I don’t have a crush on Fred.” The End. With almost every single set of dialogue! It was so vague that I had trouble picturing anyone or scenery. I’m a creative person but even I had trouble filling in all the blanks. Frustrating to say the least.
As for the plot…. What plot? The most exciting portion of the whole book was when someone got in a car accident and I could honestly say I did not care one bit. It was just a whole bunch of teenage angst. And I HATE teenage angst! . There was no conflict, no tension, barely even a romance. This is largely due to the writing style. There were things that happened that would cause conflict and tension, but the writing was just so bare boned that it all fell flat. The main character’s father cheated on her mother. She hates and loves him, yet I didn’t catch a whiff of any emotion. I didn’t feel what she felt, I didn’t even wonder because I just didn’t care. It is truly rare when I could not give a rats ass about what happened in the story. I’m not hard to please when it comes to books, so when I say I really didn’t enjoy this you will understand just how blah it was. And truly that’s what it was. It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t offensive and there wasn’t anything in the characters or story that made me hate it. It was just lacking in everything. The story was non-existent, the characters uninteresting, and the writing was bland. Just plain blah.
Another thing that was bothersome was the fact that I got through the whole entire book and was just left with more questions. The ending was so abrupt and just so weird I literally flipped the page and flipped back to make sure I hadn’t skipped one. Adina’s weird obsession with her brother, why she was anorexic, why their father was always AWOL, and just what the heck was going through Adina’s mind was all not answered. Nada! I just got the vague impression of “Well that’s F-ed up” and moved on. That was what really irritated me about this novel. The lack of answers. Just utterly frustrating.
Since I don’t have one single positive thing to say about this novel I won’t drag this out much longer. Did I hate it? No, I just couldn’t find one single thing that I liked about this novel. It was just so bare. As my Spanish teacher would say “Beef it up!” The story and everything in general just needed MORE! At least it was short and didn’t take me long to read. I don’t feel like I wasted a significant amount of time reading it. So ya. First ever entirely negative review. Shocker. I didn’t think I had it in me. (less)

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Oct 30, 2010 Kelly rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: eh

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...more

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Sep 11, 2010 Megan Swicegood rated it 3 of 5 stars

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 to be with s...more

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Aug 11, 2010 Brittany rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, car-accidents, drugs-alcohol, glbt-fiction, eating-disorders, favorites, books-i-own

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...more

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Oct 19, 2010 Andrea rated it 2 of 5 stars

2.5 out of 5 rating

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 anyways. Pitiful. (And for some reason,...more

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Oct 30, 2010 Gabriel Garcia rated it 5 of 5 stars

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 of hu...more 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 of human experience through a monochromatic, lens which informs us less about what they read and more about the reader.

High school is a place of forced friendships sprinkled with a few chosen ones amidst many new firsts to deal with. One chooses not their surroundings, milieu or the choices of these individuals. One also feels the effects of a family that is also, unchosen and seemingly unpredictable. We can feel what it is like to exist in this system and cultural environment while feeling driven by the randomness of chance. The individual's social choices seem to feel dictated by the demographics of the local neighborhood and its inhabitants not by decisive cognitive choice. The consequent friendships and nemeses seem to form as a consequence and because of circumstance.

Many coming of age themes appear as might be expected in a story like this, only, the author deals with them in fresh and unexpected ways. For instance, one can locate a wonderful symmetry in the first three chapters. The theme of loneliness and isolation is explored on, also, three different levels. In chapter one the protagonist "...wants to be alone" while being pestered, it is a declaration of an ernest desire for solitude. Next, the second chapter deals with lack of choice, the forced circumstance of having to be alone and responsible amidst a mother in crisis, creating a different picture of what it means to be alone. Finally, in chapter three we find the janus-face of being apart from other, while both choosing, to exist alone in a school cafeteria, the most alienating of all places. From here we follow and depart across the thresholds that await. Its a potent and interesting framework in which to set up the beginnings of a journey. It also serves to demonstrates a clear picture of, at once the alienating and self-censoring instilled as one grows up in such a class, geography and cultural aesthetic. There is the sense that this character, Alex, walks a tenuous and confusing line between emancipation, independent responsibility and self-protection in these three successive scenes.

The author's pace too has changed, chapter length is shorter per capita, albeit not by much. In addition, the cadence has a different fluidity which serves the following observation: the complexity of thought is enriched while remaining clear and understandable. Its a demonstration of the dedication of the author to following and growing in her craft and design as well as a sign of how literature can unpack the complexities in the human condition and distill it, to be seen anew . The use of dynamics is an example of this technique. This, of course is not unlike Strasnick, but one gets the sense that the language usage is unlike that of her former work.

In one sense, we read and imagine the life of someone we hardly know and the existential choices she must come to realize. At the same time we see the escape from solipsism, and the futility of utter self-importance, not only practically, but metaphysically. We meet Alex at a time of her life that is a critical age for all of us, when we at once realize our autonomy and the wonderful and sometimes painful interconnectedness to those around us. I praise the work as a lovely and thoughtful narrative into an age group that I know very little about. Because of Strasnick's work, I feel tremendous empathy, understanding and pride for the characters and the audiences it reaches.(less)

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Nov 08, 2010 Kayla rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: crushes-and-love, drugs-and-alcohol, eating-disorders, family-problems

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Sep 12, 2010 Love YA Lit rated it 4 of 5 stars

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.

Alex meets the twins, Fred...more

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Nov 09, 2010 Dawn Ryan rated it 4 of 5 stars

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.

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Nov 07, 2010 Vicki rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, young-adult-books, good-for-girls

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 these feelings, sit...more

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Dec 31, 2010 Amber (The Musings of ALMYBNENR) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Everyone!

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...more

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Mar 01, 2011 StorySnoops rated it 3 of 5 stars

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 Alex's fa...more

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Apr 17, 2012 Marisah rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book was really good. I really liked the fact that it has a girl falling in love with a guy but someone gets in between them and their love but it's his twin sister! that was a twist from a lot of books and I loved that. There is a few things I this book that I didn't like and it was the fact that sometimes when Fred and Alex would go on their dates it wouldn't tell you what they did really it just ends. The worst part of this book was how it just ended randomly that is why I only rated it...more

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Feb 22, 2012 Christine Ashworth rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya

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 crush. The twin...more

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Oct 17, 2011 Bethany Miller rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: royal-september

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 becomes mo...more

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Dec 02, 2010 Todd rated it 4 of 5 stars

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 flaw...more

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Sep 18, 2010 Laura (Bookish Belle) rated it 4 of 5 stars

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 message and...more

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Sep 30, 2010 Nikki (Wicked Awesome Books) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya, contemporary, read-in-2010, arc, for-review

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.

Strasnick’s characterization of a lonely, angry, and understandably frustrated girl are spot on. A...more 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.

Strasnick’s characterization of a lonely, angry, and understandably frustrated girl are spot on. Alex is easy to relate to off the bat, but I found her to also be quite the pushover, which may or may not have been intended. Alex seems to let people walk all over her and let her down again and again with little to no protest. There are moments where she explodes and all her anger come out, but I wanted to see more of that.

As for the twins with the abnormal relationship, they were…different. I like Fred. He seems like an okay guy and he was developed well, as was Adina, but the hot and cold from both of them grated on me a bit. Their close relationship is viewed as more than a little strange to the outside world and when Alex gets thrown into the middle of it, she understands why.

I really enjoyed the ambiguity of Alex’s sexual orientation and her reaction to both of the twins. She’s young and not really sure who she is, so it worked really well. Strasnick’s writing is also gripping and pulled me in. The chapters are short and the story moves quickly, so it’s easy to get caught up in it. I finished the book in about an hour or so, not wanting to put it down. I have to say that I really wasn’t satisfied with the ending. Towards the end, things began to escalate and get more and more chaotic and I loved that, but then it just ends. And here I am, left wanting more.

Opening line: I met Fred first. ~ pg. 1

Favorite line(s): Three. Three used to fell right. Me, Mom, Dad – the perfect unit. Now three felt lopsided and odd. Me, Evie, Ben. Me, Adina, Fred. Someone was always, always getting pushed to the side. ~ pg. 123

*This is an ARC and lines, page numbers, etc. are subject to change(less)

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Nov 21, 2011 Jessica rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Noone.

Recommended to Jessica by: Myself.

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...more

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Jan 11, 2011 Tiffany (Book Cover Justice) rated it 1 of 5 stars

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Mar 18, 2011 Kat rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, borrowed, ya

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 protective/jealou...more

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May 05, 2011 Ricki rated it 3 of 5 stars

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 rated it 3 of 5 stars

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...more

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Nov 28, 2011 Onna rated it 5 of 5 stars

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. I felt Alex'...more

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Lauren Strasnick is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts MFA Writing Program. Her debut novel, NOTHING LIKE YOU (Simon Pulse/S&S, 2009), was an RWA RITA award finalist in two categories, Best First Book and YA Romance. Her second novel, HER AND ME AND YOU (Simon Pulse/S&S, 2010), was a 2012 ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. THEN YOU WERE GONE (Simon Pulse/S&S),...more

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