![]() ![]() I hate it when girls hate on other girls, especially because of boys. This book had one of the biggest problems for me that I see in Y.A. Also, there are a lot of behaviors in this that I would not want young readers to imitate. Wen tried to tackle a large variety of issues and didn’t handle any of them particularly well. While it was a really quick read for me, and sort of entertaining in a hot mess sort of way, it just had too much going on. ![]() However, I sort of wish I had just forgotten it existed. It’s been in my periphery since it was released and I finally decided to pick it up for this year’s Asian Readathon. I wasn’t quite sure what I was expecting when I picked this up. I won’t go into specifics mostly, but yes, spoilers. There are spoilers ahead! This review is part rant. ![]() Free for the first time, Ever decides to break every one of her parents rules, but how far can she go before she breaks her own heart? Unbeknownst to the parents, however, this program is infamous for being a place for teens to meet and hook-up, nicknamed Loveboat. Rick Woo, a child prodigy and her parent’s measuring stick for her life, just happens to be included in the group. When Ever Wong’s parents send her to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer, she finds herself living in a small colony of the over-achieving kids her parents always wanted her to be like. “Maybe part of fighting the unhappiness in this world is to seize happiness when we can.” ![]()
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