Willow in Penguin's Point of View Books

Jun 05, 2010 Jessica rated it it was amazing

Shelves: i-own, read-in-2010

I was a little reluctant to pick up this book. It's not my typical story but the cover grabbed my attention and I wanted to give it a try. First, I will say that I could not put the book down! It brought me in from the first page. Willow was an amazing character who had her life turned upside down after a terrible accident that claimed the lives of her parents. She suffered through the tremendous amount of guilt and life changes that followed. The communication between her and her brother is lac ...more

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Dec 20, 2010 Ally rated it liked it

Shelves: povbooks

For me Willow was a very hard book to get into. I borrowed it from a friend a couple months back and i just put it off to the side because i really wasn't that interested in it. But i got curious with it just sitting there so i picked it up and read it, all in one day. It was one of those books that i literally took everywhere with me. I think for a newly exclaimd author Julia Hoban touches a very difficult topic but handles it well for her readers to understand. She told it like it was and her ...more

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Jul 05, 2010 Mariana rated it it was amazing

Willow lost her parents, she lost the in an car accident, she was driving, she´s guilty.
Adding pain to her situation there´s the fact that she had to move out qith her brother, the one that can´t even look at her they way he used to, the one he barely speaks to her.
New house, new high school, but al her fears remain the same, everything that happened that fatal day keep coming back to her mind, making her suffer.
She doesnt want to feel that, she cant let herself feel it, she has found a way to d ...more

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Sep 19, 2010 Riv rated it liked it

Shelves: realistic

Willow was weird, at first. It took me about 50 pages before I realized what the problem was; it was written in a format I've never seen before; third-person present tense. Meaning it has sentences like; "Willow cries as she thinks about it all". (I completely made that sentence up.) I lent the book to a friend when I finished with it, and when I asked her if she thought the writing was weird, she said yes and I had to explain the problem.
Willow's a character you feel bad for. She's not a great ...more

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Jan 07, 2011 Lacie Solt rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book was absolutely amazing! Probably one of my favorite teenage love stories, I love stories like this where its not all peachy keen, there is something wrong there, I find the ones where they're all happy sorta boring. I loved the characters so much, especially Willow and Guy. I really hope that someday I'll find someone as sweet as Guy. It was fantastic and at some points I couldn't take my mind away from the story, I just wanted to cry for her sake. I also loved how they showed how hard ...more

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