No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale → Start Date: February 6, 2014

[Gisbelle]

I kinda liked her character :D

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I like her too...but she scares me. I can understand why it was tough for Ruth at first. Kippy's a lot to take!

[Gisbelle]

lol yeah, she was a handful.

[Rebecca]

I understand why Ruth may have found her frustrating but I really liked Kippy she is probably great in smaller doses.

[Katie]

Oh, that salad was horrible. I'm not sure why Dom thought that was a salad. I've never heard of a salad like that.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

and I'm done!
OMG I loved it! what a crazy funny but freaky and ...just...bizarre book.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

okay,
so

the good parts

Kippy (view spoiler)[ Okay, kippy was crazy
but she was okay too!. She had her quirk but they made her unique and...I think she really needed to realize people around her loved her

AND she needed to stop judging. Once she stopped being worried about everyone else's faults, look how many people she's surrounded by! (hide spoiler)]

Sir (view spoiler)[ I seriously loved her roommate in the Cloud place. she was funny but such a good person! See, another great example. As soon as you don't judge someone, look how wonderful they can be! I wanted to hug her when she called at the end (hide spoiler)]

Dom (view spoiler)[ His nicknames were the best! OMG! because of her biting and hugging issues, I love that he called her porcupine and hugglemeister. but Pimple was awful! Ugh! LOL! (hide spoiler)]

Davey (view spoiler)[ I thought it was great how they are both so flawed
but pretty good together. Even tho the age thing - YIKES! He's 21 :( and she's 16!!!! UGH!
I'll just assume she's aged because of how much she's had to deal with death but still EW! (hide spoiler)]

the bad
death (view spoiler)[ these deaths were AWFUL
Ruth's death was just disgusting. Like, to the point of OMG I didn't want to read anymore.

and some of the scenes were oddly graphic and gross. They didn't seem to go well with the other half
I assume the book was set to be funny because all the graphic or bad parts were so bad
(hide spoiler)]

I was also REALLY TIRED (view spoiler)[ of hearing about the size of men's parts. Honestly, Ruth, does it REALLY matter that much to you. Just YUCK! I was so done with reading it in her diary! Enough already! (hide spoiler)]

Domestic violence (view spoiler)[ I agree. this is never funny. Never ever ever funny. Ever. (hide spoiler)]

this book was an odd mix of funny and absolutely disgusting and "woah, this is crazy" all mixed into one story

[Gisbelle]

Glad you enjoyed it Trisha.

Ruth's diary (view spoiler)[ I thought it was super disgusting :( He was 50 years old already and she was only 18... like EWWW and how she described his man part was so beyond disgusting (hide spoiler)]

[Katie]

I've finished through Banzai now. I'm looking forward to seeing how it ends, so I plan on finishing today.

Colt (view spoiler)[I feel bad for him. If he gets convicted for murder, he could end up in jail. I was surprised that Kippy kissed him. (hide spoiler)]

Kippy (view spoiler)[She is getting pretty crazy now. Libby was annoying her, but she didn't deserve really deserve to be attacked like that. And Kippy bit Libby too. (hide spoiler)]

Davey (view spoiler)[The story about him leaving the army and how he lost his finger was interesting. There is a bit of an age difference between him and Kippy, so I'm not sure I'd be entirely comfortable about them being a couple, if they became a couple. (hide spoiler)]

Libby (view spoiler)[So we now know a reason why she started RFFB. She felt bad about being with Colt secretly so she wants to make up for that. It's an interesting reason. (hide spoiler)]

[Rebecca]

Katie wrote: "I've finished through Banzai now. I'm looking forward to seeing how it ends, so I plan on finishing today.

Colt [spoilers removed]

Kippy [spoilers removed]

Davey [spoilers removed]

Libby [spoi..."

re: Kippy- I was surprised by that too.

[Megan]

Some of the foods mentioned were kind of weird.

@silvia
I agree about the age difference between Kippy and Davey, but with everything she's been through she may be more mature in a way that most teens her age aren't.

[Rebecca]

I don't think Kippy is mature. She is smart, and odd but she doesn't really know that much about people- at least I don't think she does. She is very awkward and still growing.

Besides who does say "sex relationship"?

But I also think that Davey, given everything that he has seen, wants that "innocence". Kippy is nice and has been effected by death but she hasn't been scarred the way that he has. Besides they have Ruth in common.

That said I do think the 5 year age difference is odd- even though neither of their brains are fully developed he is a little too old to be making out with a teenager (and not even a late teen...)

[Megan]

Rebecca, I agree with the point you just made there.

I forgot that Kippy was only 16, I kept thinking that she was 18, the same age as Ruth, but Ruth got held back a grade or two and that's why they're in the same grade.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Yeah, I know, right? 16! and 21

yikes. I can see the dad's concern. I'D be flipping out if I had a 16 that was trying to date a 21 year old.

[Rebecca]

I was a little confused by Ruth being held back too. I think Kippy may be on her way to 17- because Ruth just turned 18 (?) and she was held back a year (with Libby). Which reminds me, did anyone else feel like Libby's learning disability was pointed out a little too much? (I think I counted 3 times within the first few times of meeting her?) It didn't seem to have any role in the story and it seems like an odd thing for Kippy/the author to keep pointing out?

[Megan]

I think Ruth did just turn 18 before she was killed.

I didn't really understand why Libby's learning disability was pointed out so much. I thought at first that maybe it had to do with the murder or the story of the book, but it didn't. At times I even thought that the author was making fun of Libby and I didn't like that.

Now I did read that there is going to be a sequel to No One Else Can Have You, so maybe it might be something about it in the second book.

[Rebecca]

I didn't know these was going to be a sequel but I see it on the author's page. Maybe it will come in then. I agree it did feel like it was mocking in a way.

[Katie]

I've finished this book, and I really liked it overall.

Ralph (view spoiler)[He was awful. He killed Ruth and Mrs. Klitch, and he didn't really seem to feel any remorse about it at all. And he would have killed Kippy too if Davey hadn't stopped him. (hide spoiler)]

Kippy (view spoiler)[She definitely had some issues, but I think she was better by the end of the book. She knew then that there were people who cared about her other than Ruth. (hide spoiler)]

Dom (view spoiler)[I'm glad that he and Kippy made up with each other at the end of the book. He probably felt bad about sending her to a place for being delusional when she was actually right. (hide spoiler)]

Cloudy Meadows (view spoiler)[That place was interesting. All the people there seemed to do was give the patients a bunch of pills. Sir Albus seemed nice, though. (hide spoiler)]

Davey (view spoiler)[I'm glad he saved her from Ralph in the end. The age difference is a bit much, so I'm still not sure what I think of them as a couple. (hide spoiler)]

Libby (view spoiler)[I'm not sure about her and the learning disability. I don't know why Kippy was mentioning that. (hide spoiler)]

[Megan]

Ralph (view spoiler)[ He was awful, Silvia. He would have killed Kippy, even though they have know each other for such a long time and Kippy thought of him as family. (hide spoiler)]

Kippy (view spoiler)[ When Kippy realized that she had so many more people that cared about at the end of the book than just Ruth, was a very nice moment to read about in the book. (hide spoiler)]

Dom (view spoiler)[ He probably did feel bad about sending Kippy away to the Asylum and I'm glad that he and Kippy made up with each other at the end. (hide spoiler)]



Now is anyone else wondering what the sequel is going to be about? Ralph is going to be going to jail, so is someone else going to become a murderer and Kippy is going to have to investigate them?

[Katie]

Yeah, I wonder about the sequel, too.