Great Book. Review on Book Shelf - Ahmedabad

Henry was a very mixed bag for me. He had his good parts and his bad but I honestly think that is why he is in the pros column. He was really well developed as a character. He’s not your typical boy. He’s very focused on school, worrying about getting into a good college, and becoming the editor of his school paper to help with that whole good college thing. He gets the editor position but it’s got a co-editor attached and that’s Grace. Grace isn’t really his idea(or many people’s) of a dream girl but Henry is very intrigued and quickly becomes quite enmeshed in her life. Grace has a lot of baggage and Henry finds himself wanting to know everything about Grace and wanting to basically help fix her. He was a little obsessed with Grace(to me) but you could tell his heart was in the right place so it’s easy to get past that.

This is not your romantic, happy ever after, high school love story. Hell, I’m not even sure I’d call it a true love story because it focuses on so much more than that. The romantic feelings that Henry has for Grace were an important part of the story but not the focal point here. Grace and Henry both have their issues and maybe putting them together wasn’t the smartest idea but they were both able to help each other. I feel like Grace taught Henry a lot and not so much Henry teaching Grace. However, both Henry and Grace’s stories were really true to life and that’s what I loved about them.