![]() ![]() Lesson #1: What you see isn’t necessarily what you get. ![]() “What happens with her ex-best friend?” “Does that guy go to jail?” “Does everything go back to normal?” Just Listen, despite resolving its most pressing conflicts, leaves me wondering. In fairytales, the bad guys lose, the good guys win, the prince marries the princess, and everyone lives happily ever after. ![]() Instead, she maintains the identity of a teenage girl by riding the emotional roller coaster to the end. I spent half the book cheering her on and the other half with my head in my lap.Įven more importantly, the author, Sarah Dessen, wrestles with heavy issues -without making them seem like heavy issues and without breaking character. She’s anyone’s best friend: confused, affectionate and exasperating. My mind never wandered.Īnyone can connect with the main character, Annabel. Like all thrilling tales, Just Listen sucked me in and never let me go. This is fantastic.” I picked up the book at 8:00 a.m. In roughly three and a half minutes, my brain shifted from “A model, a petty best friend, and a hunky lover boy? Sounds cheesy,” to “Wow. All in all, reading this book taught me three things: 1) I should read more young adult fiction 2) I need to remember how complicated growing up can be 3) Books like this can create a good space to deal with stuff that’s normally hard to talk about.ĭan Coyle is the author of The Talent Code. ![]()
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