but I never felt full-on annoyance, which seems to be a recurring theme lately on all the books I choose to pick up. It's plain to see that even though these two are opposites in a lot of ways, there are sparks between them. Porter's former best friend takes on a sort of villainous role, but there's something still pathetic about him, an addict who was led down a dark path after a serious injury. Although the experiences were awful, I am proud of her for putting herself out there and not letting the memory control her life.

The romance is realistic- it's explosive in that first-love kind of way but also awkward and fumbling as they learn how to be close to one another. I hate books that are cringey, and I hate books that are pretentious, but it’s so rare for me to get the opportunity to hate one that is BOTH! Let's be honest here: Not many girls would miss the obvious signs that Porter Roth was, in fact, online Alex.He is honest, has an adorable affinity for quizzes, weather, and old movies, loves and supports his family, and has amazing communication skills. I never knew how comforting reading these YA books was until I hit my first reading slump after a year of non stop reading.

And you’re giving him an awful lot of looks that say I’d like to jump on you with my mighty roller-derby strength. I don’t have much experience with a die-hard love of films, but I kind of imagine it’s like my die-hard love of books.I felt like the story had so much promise and could have been very interesting, even if it was played out the same way but with different events happening, it could have been improved.

The choice is both simpler and more complicated than she realizes, because Porter Roth is hiding a secret of his own: Porter is Alex…Approximately. The internal war Bailey wages between her perfectly-crafted fantasy of a relationship with Alex and the messy, exhilarating reality of a relationship with Porter would hold a lot more weight, for example, if we didn’t know they were the same person. I was fully engrossed in this story and i think most of that is to do with how well the characters were written, i often find the main characters in YA contemporary books to be pretty one dimensional but i really liked Bailey and Porter.The story was really bland and uninteresting at some points and nothing exciting was really happening. J enn Bennett is an artist and RITA-nominated author of the Arcadia Bell urban fantasy series ( Kindling the Moon) and the Roaring Twenties romance series, including Bitter Spirits, which was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2014 and winner of RT Book Reviews Paranormal Romance Book of the Year, and Grave Phantoms—which was awarded RT’s May Seal of Excellence for 2015. I wanted it from Jenn Bennett's name and my undying love for her other YA book, The Anatomical Shape of a Heart. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Even if I found some parts predictable, the book still made me cheer, sigh, and celebrate with the characters.

You plow ahead, and you make a lot of progress that other people wouldn’t make, but you can’t see what’s happening on either side of the road. The one guy Bailey Rydell can’t stand is actually the boy of her dreams—she just doesn’t know it yet. She has a lot going on with her family, but despite it all, she was a strong girl who stayed true to herself throughout Alex, Approximately.Each member of the Roth family is uniquely eccentric, yet you can see how much they all love each other through their interactions.