Book Review: When It Happens by Susane Colasanti

Title: When It Happens
Author: Susane Colasanti
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Released On: May 4, 2006
Read from May 5-6, 2012
My rating: 

At the start of her senior year in high school, Sara wants two things: to get into a top college and to find true love.Tobey also wants two things for his senior year: to win Battle of the Bands and to make Sara fall in love with him. However, a popular jock named Dave moves in on Sara first. But Tobey’s quirky wit and big blue eyes are hard for Sara to ignore. Plus, he gets the little things that matter to her. Can a slacker rock-star wannabe win the heart of a pretty class brain like Sara? Hilariously and movingly told through Tobey and Sara’s authentic voices, Susane Colasanti’s debut novel sizzles in its portrayal of two young people searching for The One.

My Thoughts:

When it Happens is the kind of chick lit book that doesn't stay with you for long. I did enjoy reading it, but I won' t add it on my fave list, but the cover is gorgeous though.

The story is just any other teenage love story. Basically, it tells of when love comes, it will come. And when it happens, you will know that it's there :) I love reading about how love comes to people, even though it's just fiction, but it happens in real life, and I just love reading about it. There's something magical when two people fall in love. Gosh! I'm so cheesy. Anyway, When it Happens is basically that. But then, when Sara and Tobey finally got together, everything went blah from then on. The novel is narrated alternately between Sara and Tobey, and it was kinda interesting at first, but when they already got together, they basically talked about some problems and how their relationship is going. It was nice that the author wanted to let us know some of their first problems so we will somehow be able to predict that they'll survive the future, but it just didn't work out too well. The story was overall okay, but there are just some parts that are..well for the lack of a better word-boring.

But the story's cuteness and " when it happens" thought entertained me :)

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