Sunday, April 27, 2014

Until I met you- Review/Summary

I just finished reading Until I met You and I loved it! I would recommend it to any girl looking for a great book to read. Out of a 5 star rating I would rate this book a 5. 

At the beginning of Until I met You, Jessalyn moves to a new town after her father tragically passes. She was bullied in the town she used to live in. People would make fun of her for being shy and make up rumors about her. Jessalyn and her Mom move to Avondale to have a new start. She begins her senior year at a new school with one friend she met over the summer named Olivia, over the year she becomes friends with two guys named Cason and Evan. Evan and Olivia start dating which brings Cason and Jessalyn closer as friends. 

Later in this book Jessalyn and Cason are at a New Years festival when Cason kisses Jessalyn. She is really confused at first but they end up dating a few weeks later after talking. Cason and Jessalyn talk about their pasts, one thing they talk about is breaking Jessalyn out of her shell. He helps her by bringing her to his families restaurants to do karaoke. 

Hopefully you like this review/summary along with some spoilers of Until I met You, and I hope you look into reading it.



Sunday, April 20, 2014

Until I Met you- Dynamic Characters

     I am about 2/3 of the way finished with Until I Met You and some of the main characters have changed dramatically. In this blog I am going to talk about the main Dynamic Character.

     One of the HUGE characters that has changed is Jessalyn. Jessalyn (as I have mentioned before) starts off as a really shy Character, when she is around other people her face turns red, and she stumbles and stutters with her words. One night, Cason has Jessalyn tag along with him for a walk to the grocery store. While Cason is around the store looking for his necessities, Jessalyn has a guy at the front trying to flirt with her. He talks to her for about 30 seconds and after he says, "Hey, are you new around here? I don't think I've ever seen you before." She bolts out of the store and hides behind one of the walls until Cason comes out. Cason comes out minutes later laughing about what happened and Jessalyn tells him that it isn't funny at all and this starts her story about her past and problems with being shy. Weeks later Cason texts Jessalyn, telling her that he has a great way to break her out of her shell. Cason drives her to a restaurant with karaoke and they sing together. This is the first step to help her break out of her shell and become more comfortable around other people, from then, to where I am now, Jessalyn has become more and more confident. http://www.bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Woman-Breaks-Out-Shell-1.jpg

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Until I Met You- The best thing about it...

When it comes to good books for me I like something that's realistic and unpredictable. So many stories I feel are predictable and that takes all of the fun out of it-this is why I sometimes have a hard time reading or finding a book I really like. For example, in Divergent the whole time I was reading I could kind of tell what would happen after each thing.

In my current book: Until I Met You, everything is surprising. For example, Jessalyn goes over to her mom's new friend's house and her daughter ends up being one of her somewhat new friends from school. Until I Met you is also realistic because it isn't like some chick flick where the girl falls in love with the bad guy. Jessalyn gives him a hard time and makes him earn her trust in order to figure out whether or not he's good or bad.

Although Cason is known as the "Bad Boy", Jessalyn has not seen any behavior to prove the rumors true. I feel like people just make assumptions about people and believe everything they hear. With Jessalyn not listening to those rumors, it puts a little twist on how the story flows.


Sunday, April 6, 2014

Predictions- Until I Met you

    I recently started reading Until I Met You and it is a REALLY good book! The main character's name is Jessalyn, Jessalyn is a super shy girl who's Dad passes away unexpectedly, after his passing, Jessalyn and her Mom move to California to get away from all of the memories from their loved one. Jessalyn starts a new school and she gets really nervous because she was bullied at her old school for being shy. 

    On the first day of her new school, the first day of Jessalyn's senior year, she meets a girl named Olivia. She also runs into a guy who is supposedly the bad boy of the school, his name is Cason. Cason and Jessalyn's moms happen to teach together and they have dinner together. 

    Later in this book I'm predicting that Jessalyn and Cason get together. Jessalyn seems to get annoyed by him but I think she is just trying not the like the "bad boy". She does say though that she doesn't like rumors if she doesn't know they are true, and as of right now Cason hasn't done anything to make her think those rumors are true.