Colasanti, Susane All
I Need, 212 pgs. Viking, 2013.
$17.99 Content: Language: R (13 swears;
1 “F”; 7 God); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: G.
Skye is looking for her soul mate and Seth is
coming down from a bad breakup, but when they meet at an end-of-the-summer party
at the beach they can’t deny the connection they feel. Through a misunderstanding, they lose each
other’s contact information and try for a year to forget about each other, but
then spend the next summer looking for each other at the beach. Once they reunite, they have obstacles to
overcome, such as the long distance between them and the social economic
situations of their families.
This is a
short and fast romantic teen read. The
story seems rushed and the character development is a bit shallow. The sentences are short and choppy and the
dialogue between the characters jumps from one topic to another so quickly that
it’s hard to care about what they are talking about. I also think the token “F” word was forced,
and makes it so that even if you were going to use it in a middle school
library (which is probably the level of reader who might tolerate the writing)
now it’s out of place.
MS,
HS-OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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