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I have to say, this book wasn't exactly what I thought it was going to be, but I enjoyed it anyway. Joy is consumed by her relationship with Zan; it is how she defines herself. When Zan leaves unexpectedly for college with little to no explanation, Joy is convinced it's not because of her, but because of the extremely perfect, Moran town they live in. Unable to see the relationship from outside the box, Joy embarks on a journey to find Zan and get the answers she is looking for.

What I loved about this book was the ability to see myself in Joy. Everyone has a relationship in their lives that consumes them. A relationship where you lose yourself and feel as if the other person makes you who you are. No matter how good or bad the relationship actually is, you are unable to see it for what it really is.

Joy's journey is more about finding herself and how she lost herself than finding answers. This is a great read for anyone who has felt consumed in a relationship and lost it!


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Back When You Were Easier to Love Emily Wing Smith Books Reviews

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Wow. I don't really know how to explain my thoughts on this book. This is another book that is finalizing my decision to create a new rating system. Three stars doesn't seem enough and four stars seems like it's one of my favorites. I mean, yeah, at first when I started reading I was worried I wouldn't get into it. But it's one of those books that is just easy to read. Everything flows to where you read fifty pages and don't even realize it. Which makes it a fast read.

Nearly 300 pages could seem like a lot to some people, but the chapters are very short. I mean, a few chapters were only a page and only a few sentences were on those pages. Some of them were just lists.

It was fun to read, at first I thought it was kind of confusing because it was the start of the book and throughout the book it goes back in forth to when Jody was with Zan and then back to the "present" where Zan is gone.

The plot had me SO freaking curious as to what happened to Zan. I got sucked in and couldn't stop. I'm really glad that I needed to read this one next for BookDivas, because it was refreshing. The last couple of books I have read have been some type of fantasy. The last real contemporary novel I read, that didn't have some sort of supernatural, or magical element to it was Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes and that was back in August.

But anyway, on to the characters. At first I didn't really connect with any of the characters, even the protagonist/main character Jody. But after a while I started feeling bad for her. She had her heart broken, but she was also in denial. She was obsessed. So it made everything kind of 50/50 with me. I felt bad for her, but at the same time she could fix it and move on. She needed to face the facts!

Noah was pretty cool, I liked him. Though in the beginning you don't learn much about him because Jody doesn't want to like him. She thinks she doesn't like him, even though she doesn't really know much about him other than he's a "Soccer Lovin' Kid".

There are some religious references in here due to the fact that Jody is Mormon and basically the whole town she lives in, called Haven, is a Mormon town. It really kind of puts you into the life of really religious Mormons. Though that is by far NOT the main point. At all. So don't worry if you're a non-religious person like me. I mean, I'm Christian, I believe in God, but I'm not religious. And I don't like religions being pushed onto people. But I'm going to get out of that, because this book doesn't do that and I was very happy about that. It started to worry me a little in the beginning.

Overall, this book was a good read. Not my favorite, but I overly enjoyed reading it. Though I wanted to smack the crap out of most of the characters 80% of the time. It kept me reading. I kind of wish there were a sequel in the making so I can figure out about Jody and someone I'm not going to name. =) Don't wanna giveaway any spoilers!

The cover is kind of cartoonish, but it works. It's pretty. =)
I don't know. I keep going back and forth on this one. I literally just clicked 3 stars. Started the pro list and changed it to four. Finished the con and changed it to two. Three. Two. Four. Three. Whatever. There were good things, and one big giant thing that irked me a lot personally. I'mma give you a pro-con list and let you decide.

PRO
- Pacing was pretty good. A light, easy read. I don't know how to give my opinion about this without being SUPER spoilery... but let's just say that we peaked earlier than expected with a fake-out climactic scene and then the real climax never really came. I know this is a romance novel but that sentence was not a euphemism.
- Voice. Voice. VoiceVoiceVoice. Nailed it. To the point where if you get annoyed by teenagers you will definitely be annoyed by this. But mostly you'll just notice how conversational and real it feels.
- Adorable. Cutesy romance without being insta-love or forever love or anything other than what it is a blossoming teen romance.

CON
*deep breath*

The main character is Mormon, living in "Haven", Utah. "Haven" could be Provo or any other predominantly Mormon town. The main character spends most of the book complaining about how Mormon-y everything is. She is annoyed by Mormon people, Mormon traditions, Mormon trends, Mormon rules, everything. She mocks their clothes and their hair and their music and their food and their crafts and their kids and their parties and literally everything about them. She mocks their teeth, their language, their shoes, the fact that many of them play soccer and are hygienic.

I didn't know the main character was Mormon until around page 50 or so, when she explicitly says she is.

And I get that her rejecting the church and the culture was part of her arc, and I get that teens definitely do that. But it's hard for me to be on board with the "heh heh, I'm so cool, I can even admit that the rest of the people in my church aren't cool".

I guess I can sum it up this way You know how when a guy says "You aren't like other girls" and he means it as a compliment*, it's actually REALLY insulting? 1. He's saying "other girls" are all the same. That "girl" is a monolith and that monolith is bad. 2. He's saying that you are better than them, meaning they are worse. Your best friend, your sister, your mom, his mom are all unworthy simply because they are "girls". 3. He's letting you know you can never be like those other girls, which means you have to actively eschew all girl-related things and who knows what that even means because girls are all different.

Replace "girls" with "Mormons" and that's this book. So.

*also the love interest guy says this word for word. "You aren't like other girls" and it's meant to be swoony.
Very well written! Enjoyed this book; this one I liked better than her first book. Maybe it's because the cheesy dramatizations of teenage girls always amuses me and I think,"I was never like that." In all reality, I'm sure I had my the-end-of-the-world moments as an adolescent. I enjoyed the end the most, her growth and realization of herself as a person. Every teenage girl should come to understand that what others think of her is less important than what she thinks and finds within herself; and that she can stand as an individual, instead of an attachment to someone or something in order to be of worth.
I have to say, this book wasn't exactly what I thought it was going to be, but I enjoyed it anyway. Joy is consumed by her relationship with Zan; it is how she defines herself. When Zan leaves unexpectedly for college with little to no explanation, Joy is convinced it's not because of her, but because of the extremely perfect, Moran town they live in. Unable to see the relationship from outside the box, Joy embarks on a journey to find Zan and get the answers she is looking for.

What I loved about this book was the ability to see myself in Joy. Everyone has a relationship in their lives that consumes them. A relationship where you lose yourself and feel as if the other person makes you who you are. No matter how good or bad the relationship actually is, you are unable to see it for what it really is.

Joy's journey is more about finding herself and how she lost herself than finding answers. This is a great read for anyone who has felt consumed in a relationship and lost it!