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Dec 09, 2014 Krissy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: pgs-300-399, mm-geek-nerd-shy-awkward, i-want-to-stab-her-with-a-spork, mm-virginal-mc, lgbtq, read-before-2015

3.5 Stars. It took me a while to get used to the writing style and Noah's spastic thought process but once I did I fell in love with him (not so much with Jude) and really got into the story. I wasn't happy with the way the author wrapped up the relationships at the end (both Noah's and Jude's). A little more detail and closure would have been nice. I think an epilogue would have settled that nicely. ...more

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Nov 11, 2014 Julie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: reading-challenge-2014

Wow! This was an amazing book, I can't wait to read more by the author, I was moved to tears, to laughter and made me think. I thought about art, creativity and am itching to create something new myself.

As so many Young Adult books are, this phenomenal read is just as meaningful for adults. I found it to be especially meaningful to me as the parent of two young adults.

Please read this book, just do! ...more

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Dec 30, 2017 Debbie rated it really liked it

It is rare that a book makes me feel the emotions right along with the characters as well as this one did. The book runs the gambit too: super-high ecstasy, deep-than-low sadness, cringe-worthy embarrassment, wall-punching anger.... but for me, at least, all with a dual reader-personality, since I suspected how all the events and characters would resolve their issues by the end. And I know before I got 32% in, according to my Kindle. So, a little predictable.

But the characters are so fully aliv ...more

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Sep 11, 2023 Joanna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, audiobooks, low-lexile, 2023-read, rws-2023-fall

This is why I still read YA literature. I loved these characters. I loved the description of neuro-atypical thought in ways that really put me in the character's head instead of as an outside observer. I loved the idea of artistic images that sprang up in a character's mind so vividly they felt real--emotions expressed as hair turning to snakes, coiling around; girls as hornets buzzing. I can see why some people hated this book. But I loved it.

I loved that this book had difficult issues, but was ...more

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Jan 12, 2015 Megan rated it really liked it

Shelves: teen-fiction, finished-2015, lgbtq

This book was filled with amazing, raw emotion. The words read like beautiful poetry. I took a star away because of how all the coincidences neatly tied things together at the end.

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