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strandedinbooks's review against another edition
4.0
*4.5*
That was DAMN beautiful. It started off great, then it was okay, and then the final quarter of the book was effing amazing!!!
I am sold on Heather Demetrios and her beautiful way of writing. This is truly the work that has you thinking, "such mundane words can be shifted around to create this beauty?"
This book was equally sad as it was uplifting. I loved the dialogue between Skylar and Josh, Skylar and her best friends, and Skylar with anyone really. I loved being able to get a glimpse of something so real from Josh's POV of life after the war. As much as I was tearing up, I knew that Josh was slowly overcoming this and seeing his growth as a person was so beautifully done.
I am enamored with this book and words are not enough! I just love Josh, ok.
I'm not crying, you're crying.
That was DAMN beautiful. It started off great, then it was okay, and then the final quarter of the book was effing amazing!!!
I am sold on Heather Demetrios and her beautiful way of writing. This is truly the work that has you thinking, "such mundane words can be shifted around to create this beauty?"
This book was equally sad as it was uplifting. I loved the dialogue between Skylar and Josh, Skylar and her best friends, and Skylar with anyone really. I loved being able to get a glimpse of something so real from Josh's POV of life after the war. As much as I was tearing up, I knew that Josh was slowly overcoming this and seeing his growth as a person was so beautifully done.
I am enamored with this book and words are not enough! I just love Josh, ok.
I'm not crying, you're crying.
angelreads's review against another edition
2.0
I really wanted to like this. It had all the right elements for books that I just enjoy. A summer romance, a different setting, and disability diversity. But gosh it fell so short. I hated Josh with a passion. He was such a dick. I've read quite a couple of books with military guys in it and gosh Josh was bad. I didn't think Sky had any passion. And all the characters for 2d for me. There was just no substance.
triggerkat's review against another edition
5.0
Have you ever read a book that's torn you apart, crumbled you up into little pieces, then put you back together and smoothed you out but left wrinkles behind like a once-crumpled piece of paper? That's what this book did to me.
I read it one sitting. I haven't related to a main character in situation, emotion, and thought in a long time. In fact, I can't even remember the last time I did.
All I can say is go read it. Go read it now.
*edit 9/17/16: It's been a long time since I read this book for the first time. More than a year later. I've reread it a couple times since then, and it STILL affects me just the same as it did the first time. I still cry every time I crack open the spine, am still swept away by the characters within, am enchanted by the setting that feels so similar to the deserts I grew up in (minus the trailer). I tell people that if they want to understand me as a person, read this book. This book explains me better than I can explain myself.
And as if my love for this book weren't enough, I was reading a blog post by Heather and came across "a nineteen-year-old Marine who loses his leg in Afghanistan" and promptly started to cry again. I am not one who cries easily (it really takes a lot) but this book has found the crack in my heart and its there to stay.
I read it one sitting. I haven't related to a main character in situation, emotion, and thought in a long time. In fact, I can't even remember the last time I did.
All I can say is go read it. Go read it now.
*edit 9/17/16: It's been a long time since I read this book for the first time. More than a year later. I've reread it a couple times since then, and it STILL affects me just the same as it did the first time. I still cry every time I crack open the spine, am still swept away by the characters within, am enchanted by the setting that feels so similar to the deserts I grew up in (minus the trailer). I tell people that if they want to understand me as a person, read this book. This book explains me better than I can explain myself.
And as if my love for this book weren't enough, I was reading a blog post by Heather and came across "a nineteen-year-old Marine who loses his leg in Afghanistan" and promptly started to cry again. I am not one who cries easily (it really takes a lot) but this book has found the crack in my heart and its there to stay.
kelseybee17's review against another edition
5.0
Everyone should read this beautiful book. If I ever write a YA book, I hope it's as good as this gorgeous novel.
carolynaugustyn's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed this way more than I ever expected to enjoy it. In fact, the first few pages had me thinking "Oh jeez, it's one of those books, ugh, too much fluff." But I was wrong. This book had depth and heart and a really fresh teenage experience. The characters are all from working class/working poor families and living in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it type towns, which is different from a lot of YA books that feature mostly middle class kids with few major struggles. The writing was really well done, the characters felt real and made honest mistakes, and the story felt personal (I'm not sure how else to describe it- I really felt and cared for the characters and was rooting for them to end up ok). Very well done and truly a great example of how contemporary YA isn't just fluffy romances.
poorashleu's review against another edition
4.0
4.5. Originally posted here
n I’ll Meet You There, Demetrios tells the story of Skylar who hates her life. Her BFF and her have decided to get out of town and all they have to do is survive the last summer before college and then they are out of Creek View. That is all Sklyar wants. To be out of Creek View, away from a town full of memories she doesn’t want to deal with. The town where her father died, her mother found the bottle and lost her own job and where Skylar wants to scream from uncomfortableness and the fact she doesn’t feel like she belongs.
All of that helped this book has a permanent place in my heart. This book contained real, flawed, relateable characters that when the book ended I was sad because I wanted more from the characters, even the ones I didn’t like. The thing is, Skylar wants nothing more than to leave Creek View, she doesn’t want to be the girl who stays, until it’s time to go and she seems to freeze. And one of her BFFs, Chris, calls her out on it.
…it almost feels like…you’re looking for an excuse to stay.–ARC, pg 234
This of course enrages Sky, because she doesn’t want to stay. Really she doesn’t, because who wants to be a typical Creek View girl, until it dawns on her, her other BFF, Dylan is. And the great thing about I’ll Meet You There, is that Demetrios, also wrote a real, fleshed out book that includes female friendships! MY HEART FOR FEMALE TEENAGE FRIENDSHIPS. Demetrios had the characters call each other out when they do shitty things (like accidentally looking down on the other) but they still love each other at the end of the day..you know like real teenage girls.
Then, of course there was Josh. While Sky was figuring out herself, she was also figuring out Josh. The bad boy from town who went to war and came back completely different. He’s a shell of who he was, he’s missing a leg and he has some extreme PTSD. Through snippets of his worldview, we understand Josh and what pain he went to and how no matter what does he seems to fuck it up and that includes Sky. He just wants to be good for her.
That Josh I grew up around, with two legs and an ego that couldn’t fit through the door? I didn’t love him. I didn’t even always like him. —ARC, pg 361
Nothing I say will be perfect for this book, because it’s just one of those you have to read. It’s so good and part of me wishes I could go back and read it for the first time. While this is my first Demetrios’ book, I can tell that this won’t be my last. While I’ll Meet You There is not a light and fluffy novel, it’s a real novel that touches on things that affects everyday people. PTSD, a small town and trying to get out of it, friendships, parents, love
n I’ll Meet You There, Demetrios tells the story of Skylar who hates her life. Her BFF and her have decided to get out of town and all they have to do is survive the last summer before college and then they are out of Creek View. That is all Sklyar wants. To be out of Creek View, away from a town full of memories she doesn’t want to deal with. The town where her father died, her mother found the bottle and lost her own job and where Skylar wants to scream from uncomfortableness and the fact she doesn’t feel like she belongs.
All of that helped this book has a permanent place in my heart. This book contained real, flawed, relateable characters that when the book ended I was sad because I wanted more from the characters, even the ones I didn’t like. The thing is, Skylar wants nothing more than to leave Creek View, she doesn’t want to be the girl who stays, until it’s time to go and she seems to freeze. And one of her BFFs, Chris, calls her out on it.
…it almost feels like…you’re looking for an excuse to stay.–ARC, pg 234
This of course enrages Sky, because she doesn’t want to stay. Really she doesn’t, because who wants to be a typical Creek View girl, until it dawns on her, her other BFF, Dylan is. And the great thing about I’ll Meet You There, is that Demetrios, also wrote a real, fleshed out book that includes female friendships! MY HEART FOR FEMALE TEENAGE FRIENDSHIPS. Demetrios had the characters call each other out when they do shitty things (like accidentally looking down on the other) but they still love each other at the end of the day..you know like real teenage girls.
Then, of course there was Josh. While Sky was figuring out herself, she was also figuring out Josh. The bad boy from town who went to war and came back completely different. He’s a shell of who he was, he’s missing a leg and he has some extreme PTSD. Through snippets of his worldview, we understand Josh and what pain he went to and how no matter what does he seems to fuck it up and that includes Sky. He just wants to be good for her.
That Josh I grew up around, with two legs and an ego that couldn’t fit through the door? I didn’t love him. I didn’t even always like him. —ARC, pg 361
Nothing I say will be perfect for this book, because it’s just one of those you have to read. It’s so good and part of me wishes I could go back and read it for the first time. While this is my first Demetrios’ book, I can tell that this won’t be my last. While I’ll Meet You There is not a light and fluffy novel, it’s a real novel that touches on things that affects everyday people. PTSD, a small town and trying to get out of it, friendships, parents, love
vanessa_issa's review against another edition
5.0
Heather just got herself a new fan. I loved this book! One of the best ones I've read this year. It's sweet and innocent, but also full of pain and complicated experiences. I'm sure anyone can relate to some part of it.
madhatter360's review against another edition
4.0
I wish there'd been a little more clarification on certain topics (what did happen at the funeral between the mom and the aunt?) but for the most part this was a really sweet book, with very well rounded characters.
_duskicreads's review against another edition
5.0
“...if you could make a beautiful piece of art from discarded newspapers and old matchbooks, then it meant that everything had potential. And maybe people were like collages-no matter how broken or useless we felt, we were an essential part of the whole. We mattered.”
This book was so, so amazing, and if I tried to explain all the things that I loved about it, I would be raving on forever. The story, the pain, the writing, Josh's POV's, the setting, just everything was brilliant.
The only fault I found in it was that I thought it was a bit too romance-centric, but even with that I honestly loved it.
This book was so, so amazing, and if I tried to explain all the things that I loved about it, I would be raving on forever. The story, the pain, the writing, Josh's POV's, the setting, just everything was brilliant.
The only fault I found in it was that I thought it was a bit too romance-centric, but even with that I honestly loved it.