Buxbaum, Julie Tell
Me Three Things, 325 pgs. Delacorte
Press, 2016. $17.99 Content: Language: R (100 swears; 5 “F”); Mature
Content: R; Violence: PG.
Jessie has
been uprooted from Chicago by her father who has remarried after Jessie’s
mother’s death. They move to Los Angeles
in an upscale neighborhood and Jessie feels like she doesn’t fit in. When she starts to get emails from an anonymous
student at school they build a relationship and Jessie feels like someone
finally understands her. As Jessie
settles into her new life, she figures out who she is and starts to realize
that life changes can be good.
I enjoyed
reading this book because it wasn’t just a teen romance, it also dealt with issues like losing a parent. There
are laugh out loud moments and the character is likable. That said, the sexual discussions that go on
in this book are plentiful and quite explicit, so even though there isn’t
on-page sex, it’s comparable. Also,
Jessie often texts while in the middle of important conversations and then goes on to
say how much it means to her when the boy she likes doesn’t text while he’s
with her which was annoying.
HS – OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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