Title: Just Listen
Author: Sarah Dessen
source: own copy (reissue version)
Publisher: Speak
Published on: June 2012
Last year, Annabel was "the girl who has everything"—at least that's the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf's Department Store.This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong. Tall, dark, and music-obsessed, Owen is a reformed bad boy with a commitment totruth-telling. With Owen's help,maybe Annabel can face what happenedthe night she and Sophie stopped being friends.
I really didn't love it love it but I also don't hate it. The story was good and okay for me, the plot, the characters, the story building and climax, the writing, the words. Everything was good. But somehow, it just didn't make my favorite books list. It was a good story but for me it was also easily forgettable.
But that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy the book because I did! There were some swoon moments and a lot of drama. There were also lessons to be learned from the story, like how we must not hold everything in. There were many issues tackled on this novel such as anger management (wherein I learned lots of tips and words used in the therapy, very helpful though), eating disorders, secrets and lies. The story revolved around Annabel. Mainly on how she was affected by everyone around her, especially on how she dealt with things. Annabel was a runner. A problem here, she runs away, or rather stays away from the people involved, and wrongly assumes the opposite. I really can’t relate to her attitude because I myself rather face my problems, that’s what makes us different from each other. But, I can empathize with her though, just not much. I almost always wanted to shake her from wherever she is.
The ending was good though, all is well.
But that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy the book because I did! There were some swoon moments and a lot of drama. There were also lessons to be learned from the story, like how we must not hold everything in. There were many issues tackled on this novel such as anger management (wherein I learned lots of tips and words used in the therapy, very helpful though), eating disorders, secrets and lies. The story revolved around Annabel. Mainly on how she was affected by everyone around her, especially on how she dealt with things. Annabel was a runner. A problem here, she runs away, or rather stays away from the people involved, and wrongly assumes the opposite. I really can’t relate to her attitude because I myself rather face my problems, that’s what makes us different from each other. But, I can empathize with her though, just not much. I almost always wanted to shake her from wherever she is.
The ending was good though, all is well.
Thanks for posting this.This is awesome!!
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