Love or Something Like it

Reviewed by: Carla McAllister - New Gloucester Public Library, New Gloucester, Maine, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 12, 2016

Review

April Sinclair will begin high school next fall. She has dropped her boyfriend Billy for Matt, the hot new boy next door, because Matt gives her butterflies. In fact, she kissed Matt before she broke up with Billy, a boy she has known since she was very young. April, Billy and Brynn are all best friends. She is thrilled to be actually "going with" Matt but Matt is really hard to figure out. One day he's crazy about her, the next thing she knows she hasn't heard from him in days and days. He also seems way more interested in knocking on her window and getting her to come outside late at night to make out on the porch than in hearing how April's dance classes are going or in conversing much at all. She never really knows how he is feeling. When her best friends Brynn and Billy seem to be spending way too much time together and Matt grows more distant, April is afraid to go to summer camp and worried about what will happen while she is away for four weeks. This book certainly teaches some love lessons for young girls. It is told in diary entry style and there is much texting taking place which will appeal to today's young teens and their modern means of communication.

Overall Book Score: good