What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye

Sarah Dessen, the author of What Happened to Goodbye, and so many other wonderful teen novels.  What Happened to goodbye, is Sarah’s tenth book that has been written.  Sarah lived in Chapel Hill, NC ever since she was little. The mom and dad both worked at the university there and that’s where Sarah went to school. She still lives in the same little town as a book writer and a teacher and her husband, who is one of the most supportive people in her life. That summer was Sarah’s first book published, in 2009 and What Happened to Goodbye, published in 2011.

                Mclean is a teenager who has moved around 4 different times in the last 2 years, ever since her mom had an affair, with Gus’s favorite basketball teams coach. Gus and Mclean left. Gus, a middle aged man, is a restaurant consultant who is also Mclean’s dad. They move to Lakeside for Mclean’s senior year. Jumping from place to place Mclean changes her name every town she goes. As she moves to lakeside she chose to go with her real self, Mclean.

                                                               

                Mclean doesn’t find friends here, her friends are finding her. She’s not looking for a relationship, the cute neighbor boy found her. Mclean is starting to fit it and things might actually turn around and she won’t have to move in the next 6 months. She comes home to find her dad holding hands with a councilwomen and knows, her life is about to take a turn. This is all happening why her mom is trying to fight for custody; also her friends find out that Mclean is more than one person and has many different names. Now as everyone is running around trying to find out the truth Mclean leaves to go on vacation with her mom.

                I enjoyed this book and thought it was one of the better ones from Sarah Dessen. She explains a lot of different situations but keeps them linked together.  I would recommend this book to anybody to read. So read it for more information about what happens and where Mclean ends up going.

Royally Crushed

Royally Crushed

                Niki Burnham is the author of Royally Crushed. She writes books for young adults and teens. Niki has been almost all over the world to live. Her father was an army guy, which caused her to move around a lot. Niki now lives in Colorado with her husband and miniature poodle. Royally Crushed has three books in one, Royally Jacked, Spin Control, and Do-Over. I enjoyed this book because it has a lot to do with high school situations that take place in our high schools now.

Val has a dad who works as the president’s sidekick and a mom that is the stay at home kind of mom.  When her mom comes out as gay the night that Val thought she was a normal teenager, her world come crashing down. Val is now the not-so-normal teenager that everyone thought she was. Val has a choice to stay with her mom and move into a new apartment with her new girlfriend, Gabriella, or go with her dad to a million miles away to a little place called Schwerinborg, Europe.  While hiding the real reason Val’s parents are getting a divorce to her friends, Val has bigger problems. The guy she has been crushing on ever since kindergarten. David is now taking interest in her.

                                                    

Valerie chose to move away with her dad, leaving everything but him behind. When she gets to her new apartment in the “palace”, where she now lives, she finds that there are no other kids around besides Prince Georg.  She takes to him very well and has a lot in common with him. They talk and fall in love like every other teen high school book almost. Until, the get photographed by the media and word gets out the Val is not the good girl that should be with the Prince. The two families (Prince Georg and Val and her dad) have to stay away until things cool down. So Val goes home to visit her mom and Georg goes on a beach trip to help little kids in the hospitals.

                When the two families get back, Val her dad Georg and Georg’s follower, plan a ski trip. They ride the slopes small ones then the big ones, they go to lunch and Val’s dad gives his daughter the bad news. The girl that is Georg’s follower is dating Val’s dad. This makes her day long and all Val can do is think about it. By the time the trip is over Val is a-okay with her dad and the French lady (that’s what Val calls her).

                I hope you enjoy this blog, and like it enough to read the book. It’s a very well written book .