Someone Like You

I was very curious when I started reading this book because I'd seen the movie How To Deal, which was based on this book and That Summer. Having already reading That Summer and seeing the pieces taken from that book for the movie adaptation, I was curious about how true to Halley the rest of the movie had been.

Though there were some obvious differences, I definitely enjoyed Someone Like You. As always, the characters were strongly defined. I think one of my favorite parts of this book was just how well the characters and their flaws could be seen.

I really felt like this was a good coming of age story, where the protagonist sort of grew up and learned. It was interesting because I had such conflicting feelings about Macon because I loved the Macon of the movie so much, but I really just wanted to smack the Macon of the book several times.

While this book wasn't my favorite Sarah Dessen book, I was still able to see the writer that already loved in this story.