I've only read Waiting For You by Susane Colasanti, besides now this one, and I fell in love with that book. It was sweet, and had such deep emotion with teenagers who were real and endearing. I was excited to read all of her other books, hoping that they would all have that same type of feeling. Sadly, Take Me There didn't possess that quality. The writing felt so off, it was overly simple and juvenile, (which honestly isn’t all bad, as I loved the juvenile voice in Waiting For You, just here, I didn’t quite like it). It had lots of run on sentences, and dialogue that went like this:
He’s like..
I’m all like..
And he’s all..
I go..
He goes..
I get that Colasanti was going for a teenager voice, and I suppose they do kind of think along the lines of that, I just didn’t care to have it overly used in a novel. There was no real plot, which I realize isn’t always the point in realistic fiction. It’s more about the emotional journey the characters go through, or just their journey of going through their life, which I love reading about. But that’s the thing, I didn’t feel any emotion reading this book, more boredom than anything (maybe some annoyance at the writing). I did like the part where Rhiannon and James are dancing to his ipod. But I just felt like the execution of the story was lacking, and it could have had more emotion.

Content: some sexual content and swearing