is an interesting book, with a good point about not losing yourself to the person you are dating, The cover doesn't fit the story thoughits a lot more controlling, almost an abusive relationship, The basic plot is a girl hyndy is that right falls in love and discovers all the problems and fun which go with it, . .
Generally I love Dylan Sheldon books usually they have different plots and are great reads but I found this story very slow starting and followed a basic and predictable story line which I found quite tedious! The layout didn't work for me in its diary form and the first person didn't fit with type of story line! But I feel like for younger readers this could be a good first love story! This was quite a funny book yet it showed the terribleness of an overly controlling relationship.
Nobody should be in a relationship when you have no space to breathe, you are constantly controlled,friends, who you are around, where you go, no one should endure extreme distrust to the point of yelling over everything.
No one should be yelled at for everything that isn't even their fault, This book was well written and had a good message, This book was difficult to read as it deals with an emotionally abusive relationship, The boyfriend of the main character is very controlling but makes her feel that it's ok because he loves her, I feel that reading this as an adult you can see the red flags but you might not as a teen, The book doesn't really impress me like the cover does, Seriously, this book is one of the worse book ever, How can a girl be so dumb Don't even start the whole stupid in love thing because it was obviously not, I totally regret buying this book! A wise, sometimes hilarious, always witty new novel from Dyan Sheldon, in which our heroine learns that "love" is not always what it seems.
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Hildy D'Angelo is seventeen and this is the summer she falls in love for the first time, She isn't what you'd call experienced when it comes to boys, but Connor is good looking, smart, charming and sweet with a meltthaticecap smile, Hildy is a sarcastic and funny, downtoearth girl with lots of friends, and yet she proves to be a little bit of a fool for love, When Connor uses the L word, Hildy, already half in love with the idea of falling in love, releases her hold on the Earth, And because it's all very new to her, she thinks that Connor's irrational bursts of jealousy are signs of affection, Teething pains. No big deal. She ties herself in knots trying to appease him and not let on to her suspicious friends or herself that there is anything wrong, Until, finally, poor tortured Connor goes a step too far and Hildy sees the truth at last, . . So I just could not finish this book, For this book just to be justpages long, it was taking entirely to long to get the end, So I just gave up and I dont give up offend, I really did try to get through it I just couldnt the pace was just too slow for
me, The book started off really boring it didnt grab my attention at all, I really didnt like any of the characters, This book made me feel a little to childish for reading it and I never feel like that way before when I read a YA book, At first I thought this book was going to be a fun and quirky short story about a girl who falls in love with an exceptionally sweet boy with an affinity for romantic trips, crazy rides and moonlit strolls.
Imagine my surprise when the story took an unexpected twist! Things started out slow between our main character Hildy and her guy, Connor, but then everything went downhill pretty fast.
Connor began his slow descent from being the lovable, caring and protective sweetheart to the tooparanoid, overlypossessive and easilygetsjealous type,
Four weeks into their relationship and he was already telling her that he loved her and that he needed her and that he was afraid of losing her, which was the reason why he felt the need to constantly "check up on her" or in my words, stalk her and go through her Facebook friends and phonebook list and private messages, to partly make sure she was okay, and doing exactly what she said she'd be doing at exactly where she said she'd be doing it.
Sometimes, he acted like the thoughtful boyfriend he was supposed to be and gave Hildy extravagant presents or took her on really romantic dates but most of the time he overlyanalyzed things and picked up fights with her just because he thought she was looking at other guys.
Oh, and by the way, if you're the kind of person who fumes and starts to tear her hair out whenever the protagonist does something really stupid or acts really dense, then you probably shouldn't read this.
I get that she was inexperienced in the love department but you should be able to tell if your boyfriend is a psychopath, right That's not the kind of thing that you can look past.
I loved Nomi! She was like the BFF I've always wanted to have, She cracked me up and voiced out all of the thoughts that I expected Hildy to have, Like how weird it was that Connor had only dated flirts in his whole life what, did he walk around with a sign on his head that said, "Flirts only.
If you are not extremely skilled in breaking hearts then don't come near me" Seriously, and how blatantly obvious it was that Hildy was mistaking unadulterated with fascist dictatorship, She was extremely awesome.
Hildy was also very likeable, with her extreme sense of humour and heavy use of sarcasm, I love people who constantly use sarcasm, They make the world a much better place to live in, I blamed her limited knowledge of how NORMAL boyfriends operate on the fact that she'd only ever had two and a half dates in her life with the half one not really counting.
I was quite relieved near the end of the book when her eyes had finally opened and she broke things off with Connor, I was really happy that she had finally put an end to Connor bossing her around and making her feel like crap,
I learned a lot from this book and found it immensely wellwritten so I'm not going to make this the last Dyan Sheldon book I'll ever read, I definitely recommend this to all the teenagers out there who have a bit of a twisted understanding about the real meaning of love, Because if there's anything I've learned from this book, it's that love is about partnership, Give and take, you know That, and the fact that it can kinda drive you nuts, One or Two Things I Learned About Love may belong to the chic lit genre, but it is well written and has a definite message for teenage girls.
Hildegarde dAngelo Hildy has never had a real boyfriend, so when she meets Connor Bowden at the mall and he pursues her she is thrilled, Since she has never had a relationship with a boy before, she doesnt recognize the signs of the possessive, selfish, and jealous boyfriend, Despite the fact that her friends try to clue her in, she is blinded by Connors romantic gestures and claims of love,
One or Two Things I Learned About Love illustrates a bad relationship without painting an overthetop image of the controlling boyfriend, Sheldon depicts Connor as a true personality and not the stereotypical, abusive boyfriend, The book has humor, realistic characters, and a subtle message that is worth the read, One or Two Things I Learned About Love is recommended for grades seven through nine, I really liked this book! It is so cute, Dyan Sheldon will appeal to Georgia Nicholson fans, This is about Hildy, a girl who believes she will never find love, All her friends have boyfriends except her, until she meets Connor, . . We see how delusional she becomes due to her "love" for Connor, She notices that some of her male Facebook friends disappear, he knows the address of her granny and he knows the phone numbers of her friends, he tells her she told him these things but she's not so sure.
When he breaks into her friend's house during the night she finally notices the craziness of it all, This book deals with the intense jealousy people can feel and how they deal with it, This book is a lot deeper than the title cover lead us to believe, If you're the kind of reader that gets mad amp a 'wtf face' everytime the main character does something stupid/ is blind, then this book is not for you, Now, let me tell you why,
Hildy is the typical teenager who always wonders why her family is so crazy and why she doesn't have a boyfriend yet, That is, until she meets Connor Bowden, Connor is the new worker at this café, and when they meet, it's instant attraction, They flirt, and tada! Hildy has a date,
They hit off pretty well, and soon they're dating, Hildy experiences the pain and joy of having a first boyfriend, Though Connor is very cute, she notices he gets carried away too much by what she calls love, and her friends, jealousy,
It's crystal clear how possessive, controlling and clingy Connor is, He texts her everytime, he doesn't let her talk to her male friends anymore, and looking at a boy unintentionally becomes a reason for Connor to become mad, The more she finds herself 'in love' with Connor, the more she finds herself entangled in a web of lies and mistrust,
Is it possible that love means always feeling like you've done something wrong
This is the kind of book that makes you realize how stupid and foolish and gullible girls can be when they're in love.
There were many times I felt like slapping Hildy in the face, but, come on, most girls are like this when they're love, So I'm giving her a break,
There's one thing I didn't like about the ending though, .