If you could change one thing thats happened in the first half of the book what would it be and why?
If you could change one thing thats happened in the first half of the book what would it be and why?
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I really kind of wish Mina was unattainable for cassie the way boys are for molly. So she could understand how molly feels for 17 years
Cassie’s growing indifference towards her sister. Crushes/Boyfriends/Girlfriends come and go but siblings are forever and Cassie is starting to pull away from Molly (like their mom and her sister’s situation minus the homophobia part).
Cassie’s habit of putting her sister’s business out there and Molly not speaking up to say it isn’t okay. Then again Molly all but says aloud that she is a pushover.
holy crap that pisses me off so much
Right! And this force Molly on Will business! I was like WOULD U KNOCK IT OFF?!?!
i was the shy quiet one in my group in high school. the overweight girl w/ glasses and braces and my friends would try to push me towards guys all the freakin time. so i get it with molly. i wish i had been able to stand up for myself better. it’s the same situation here and man i keep seein red reading this book
I was the overweight girl but I would go off with a quickness if people tried to push me into things. I also tended to not care what most ppl thought, family excluded.
I think that’s why for me Molly was just uuggghhh! There were so many times she needed to speak up and she didn’t. Even telling Cassie “FYou” wasn’t actually standing up for herself, because she still basically backed down
Cassie trying to get Molly with Will made me angry. Molly and Will have said all of what, two or three sentences to each other? I get Cassie wants Molly to have a boyfriend, but maybe give some thought into personality match before she shoves her sister at the first guy to walk by.
Cassie’s selfishness. The synopsis really made it sound like Molly has a genuine crush on Will and that she got a say in pursuing it, but Cassie just charged ahead at full speed without even asking Molly what she wanted. Which is really all I want. I want someone to say, “Molly, do you want this?” Instead of, “I totally know you better than you know yourself and you want this, especially because I personally am tired of you complaining about your love life so I’ll set you up with this guy you said all of five generic sentences to.” (Which is basically what Cassie said on the train ride home. Or at least how I interpreted it).
Say it again! I wanted to punch her in the face!
Totally agree! She gives no thought to Molly or Will’s personalities, likes/dislikes, etc. It’s just “I want us to date best friends, so go pair up with my girlfriends best friend.” (Also, siblings dating best friends seems like a terrible idea. Has Cassie never seen a 90s sitcom where a couple has an argument and all their friends have to choose sides?).
Cassie is the 90s sitcom so is Molly. I just was getting more and more frustrated and there will obviously be yet another book featuring at least some of these characters.
Surprisingly, I think I’ll have to pick that up. I don’t usually go for contemporary, but I’ll probably go pick up Simon and The Homo Sapiens Agenda and probably whatever this author writes next. It was a cute book.
another thing i would change is molly’s view on guys. every single one is cute or hot or whatever. she obviously don’t have a type and will just start crushing on any guy who looks her way. totally unhealthy 🙁
i dont agree with this … i think she like every guy for a different reason. so they all had the cute little nicknames
The nicknames are kind of funny but it seems over the top that she likes all these guys who say hi to her.
I don’t know about that. When I was a teenager I had a crush on almost anyone who looked my way so I could relate to that. I had so many crushes named Chris it got to be silly.
Now that I am thinking about it, I think it’s interesting how Molly was on Zoloft for anxiety, but she wasn’t getting help at all for her ideas about herself. She had all these feelings and thoughts bottled up and up til the end of the books (sorry Ik we r talking about first half) she never actually gets it all out, she gets bits and pieces out.
I never really felt like she ever addressed her anxiety and experience with Zoloft. Like it was a whole “look at me. I’ve included a diverse character with mental health issues. High five me” Zoloft isn’t some miracle drug that magically takes away all your anxiety. It just helps to keep you from falling apart completely when things get too stressful. I just wish she had fleshed that out a little bit more. Or leave it out entirely.
Right, there was a point when Molly evwn said she went to take her Zoloft so she could calm the hell down. How does that fix her issues though?
I honestly glazed over the meds because of all of this. I wish there was more about her mental illness and her actually telling Cassie how she is feeling.
I agree with most of these.