The Bookish Island's Book Review:
All I Need by Susane Colasanti
Are there spoilers?
There's are some spoilers but then again its all in the synopsis.
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Title: All I NeedAuthor: Susane Colasanti
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Pages: 240
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2013
Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Women's Fiction
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Date Read: December 22, 2018
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
The last night of summer is only the beginning.
Skye wants to meet the boy who will change her life forever. Seth feels their instant connection the second he sees her. When Seth starts talking to Skye at the last beach party of the summer, it’s obvious to both of them that this is something real. But when Seth leaves for college before they exchange contact info, Skye wonders if he felt the same way she did—and if she will ever see him again. Even if they find their way back to each other, can they make a long-distance relationship work despite trust issues, ex drama, and some serious background differences?
Teen favorite Susane Colasanti returns to the alternating-voice style of her beloved debut When It Happens in this Serendipity-inspired story about summer, soul mates, and the moments that change our lives forever.
My Review:
All I Need was a quick contemporary YA novel with a girl from a rich family and boy from a poor family who find each other during summer and fall in love.
The author doesn't seem to understand the differences between an Adult Romance and a Young Adult Romance because some things in her book seem out of place. Like the relationships between the main characters and how they think. It's like the situations she puts these characters in are meant to be in an Adult Romance rather than what it is. I often found myself thinking that if this was an Adult Romance I would have liked it better.
I had no feelings for this story or the characters. Mostly because of how the author wrote Sky and Seth's relationship and situations.
The insta-love between Sky and Seth was bad. I disliked every second. They would constantly tell each other and themselves that their love was forever and that they couldn't be apart from each other. But they didn't even know each other's last names or anything.
They meet one summer fall in love and on the last day of summer they arrange to meet and Seth doesn't show up. So they don't see each other since, again, they don't know anything about each other. And when they reunite it is as if they were covered in glue, cause they become inseparable.
Still, it was an easy read with easy transitions and dialogue but the characters made no impact on me. At all.
The author doesn't seem to understand the differences between an Adult Romance and a Young Adult Romance because some things in her book seem out of place. Like the relationships between the main characters and how they think. It's like the situations she puts these characters in are meant to be in an Adult Romance rather than what it is. I often found myself thinking that if this was an Adult Romance I would have liked it better.
I had no feelings for this story or the characters. Mostly because of how the author wrote Sky and Seth's relationship and situations.
The insta-love between Sky and Seth was bad. I disliked every second. They would constantly tell each other and themselves that their love was forever and that they couldn't be apart from each other. But they didn't even know each other's last names or anything.
They meet one summer fall in love and on the last day of summer they arrange to meet and Seth doesn't show up. So they don't see each other since, again, they don't know anything about each other. And when they reunite it is as if they were covered in glue, cause they become inseparable.
Still, it was an easy read with easy transitions and dialogue but the characters made no impact on me. At all.
