Someone like You

De: Sarah Dessen

Narrado por: Rebecca Soler

A powerful coming-of-age novel about the power and peril of friendship and first loves, from the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Rest of the Story.

The world is a terrible place not to have a best friend. Scarlett was always the strong one, but now it’s Hailey’s turn. In the wake of Scarlett’s boyfriend's death and learning she’s pregnant, Scarlett needs a friend more than ever.

Because true friendship is a promise you keep forever.

“Dessen has written a powerful, polished story.” (School Library Journal, starred review)

©2004 Sarah Dessen (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

wow so action packed

i absolutely loved this movie, it was so packed and amazing 🤩 loved it so good

A bit dated

Halley has always been the follower to best friend Scarlett's leadership. Now Scarlett's boyfriend is dead and she's pregnant, so for the first time Halley must be the strong one.

Halley's therapist mother considers herself such an expert on adolescent behavior she's written two books on the perfect relationship with her daughter. Too bad Halley feels so crushed beneath her mother's expectations of perfection that she pulls away. I felt for Halley and understood her very mild rebellion. I wished her mother had been more the mom she claimed to be. I liked Scarlett empathized with her precarious situation. I didn't think Dessen's portrayal of Scarlett's almost abortion was accurate, as clinics don't do abortions on mom's insistence and take care to assure women are certain of their choice and they aren't making it for someone else. The idea of a sixteen-year-old dragged in for a forced abortion isn't legal, though in the end she wasn't forced to go through with the procedure.

Dessen is a hit or miss writer for me. SOMEONE LIKE ME ended on a meh notes. The story stopped without much wrapped up, somewhat open ended which is better without a fizzle out.