Enjoy For Free The Infinite Moment Of Us Authored By Lauren Myracle Released Through Text

to be young and feel the thrill of experiencing love, lust and miscommunication for the first time, Bitterness hasn't taken hold, nor have the lessons learned from past mistakes as those mistakes have yet to happen, It's an awkward, exciting and vulnerable emotional/mental state, . . and it has the tendency to make us more than a little stupid, I'd like to say it gets better with age, but adulthood does not remedy the idiocy of love's keen sting,

sitelinkThe Infinite Moment of Us does a great job of displaying all the mental trials and emotional triumphs that coincide with falling in love for the first time, or even with someone new.
Its a quick read that personifies what it means to be young, in love, and full of hope,


I give extra points to Myracle for refusing to fade her scenes to black, The sex scenes are tastefully descriptive, For as long as she can remember, Wren Grays goal has been to please her parents, But as high school graduation nears, so does an uncomfortable realization: Pleasing her parents once overlapped with pleasing herself, but now, . . not so much. Wren needs to honor her own desires, but how can she if she doesnt even know what they are

Charlie Parker, on the other hand, is painfully aware of his hearts desire.
A gentle boy with a troubled past, Charlie has loved Wren since the day he first saw her, But a girl like Wren would never fall for a guy like Charlieat least not the sort of guy Charlie believes himself to be,

And yet certain things are written in the, And in the summer after high school, Wren and Charlies souls will collide, But souls are complicated, as are the bodies that house them, . .

Sexy, romantic, and ohsotrue to life, this is an unforgettable look at first love from one of young adult fictions greatest writers, This book taught melessons:Titles can be deceiving,Books about teenagers can be still terrible,

I dont know what I was expecting with this book, since so many YA contemporary books are so good, but this is one of the biggest disappointments Ive ever had.
The way it was written was terrible: childish, pathetic, the use of description poor and slow, it was mostly dialogue and I just dont understand how this was published since it seems like it was written by ayear old.
No, wait, Ive seenyear old girls who write better than this, Terrible writing style honestly, its just meager and blank and boring, theres nothing interesting about the way this story is told, Youre actually

rolling your eyes at their thoughts are described,

Also, the characters, theyre dependent, whiny, immature, pathetic, annoying, stupid, desperate and just wrong, I dont ever want teenagers to think this is the way to act or to think or to be in a relationship, Theres nothing I hate more than codependent relationships and this book has one of the worst codependent relationships Ive ever read and I read Twilight, These two characters think they literally cant be apart, so she almost gives up her voluntary trip to Guatemala, but then she doesnt have to because the boy who, by the way, doesnt sound as someone terrible rich drops out of the scholarship to Georgia Tech to go to Guatemala with her because “shes his home and hes hers”.
No guys, this is called codependency, this is called immaturity, this is called not making your own decisions because you can stand being apart from you boyfriend ofmonths.


Really, there are no words that can express how much I DETEST this book,
Dont read this garbage, If you want codependent pathetic relationships, reread Twilight, At least it has some paranormal to make it more interesting,

/but since I cant give it that in Goodreads/The Infinite Moment of Us is about a summer romance between two recent high school graduates, Charlie and Wren.


This sounded like the kind of characterdriven realistic YA fiction I love but I wasn't crazy about the dynamic of the romantic relationship,

Wren's been accepted early decision to Emory and won a merit scholarship, but doesn't want any of that, because that's what her overbearing parents want her to do.
So she lies to her parents and turns Emory down and applies for a volunteer program in Guatemala, But before she runs off and shows her parents that they are Not The Boss of Her, she decides she wants to get to know and lose her virginity to

Charlie.
Charlie has real problems. His working class foster parents are short on money, his disabled younger foster brother gets bullied, and he has a crazy exgirlfriend who wants him back, It seemed to me like the last thing Charlie needed was some sheltered, clingy, selfcentered girl like Wren who wants to use him for her summer rebellion plan.


So Charlie and Wren get together, I have no problem with sex in YA books, even explicit sex, but I never felt emotionally invested in this relationship because Wren came off to me as so needy, while poor Charlie got stuck in a melodramatic tugofwar between Wren and his troubled ex, Starrla.


When the end of the story offered an opportunity for both Charlie and Wren to finally show some real maturity and emotional growth, I was so excited.
and then so disappointed that the story went in another direction,

I was all ready for Wren to say goodbye to Charlie and get on the plane.
This is what Wren says she wants: independence, To be her own person, Meanwhile, Charlie has plans to go college and make a better life for himself, To my complete dismay, the book ends with him leaving his foster family and throwing some stuff in a suitcase and running to the airport to follow Wren to Guatemala.
What If a female character had postponed her college plans to chase after some boy she'd been sleeping with for a couple of months, I'd be outraged, and I felt the same way about a male character making that decision.
This story might have redeemed itself for me if the two had gone their separate ways and then reconnected later in an epilogue, Maybe I'd have liked Wren better after her time in Guatemala, This story seemed to want to be a coming of age story, but never took that last step, I didn't feel like Wren's character grew at all through the course of the story, except for becoming more sexually experienced, and that disappointed me,

I've heard amazing things about Myracle's YA novel Shine and would love to try it, even if this book wasn't quite for me,

Received this book as an ARC giveaway at BEA sitelink
Stars

Wren and Charlie meet at an inopportune time, They are both graduating high school and heading separate ways, Charlie will be attending Georgia Tech and Wren will be headed to Guatemala to volunteer for a year with a Peace Corps type organization, This book follows their summer spent together falling in love and questioning when will it end, or can it really be infinite

Okay, this is a solidstar book, but Im giving it an extra half star just for the title and cover.
Shallow, much Yeah, totally, but tough cookies, The title and cover are what hooked me to begin with, Although this is definitely a “teen” type of book, please note there is, how should I put this Uhhhhh, penetration involved so I wouldnt let super young kids read it, In a nutshell, if you loved "Say Anything" you will probably love "The Infinite Moment of Us", The big change is the soundtrack, Rather than Peter Gabriel, the musical backdrop is Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros:

"Well holy moly me oh my
Youre the apple of my eye
Girl I've never loved one like you

Man o man you're my best friend
I scream it to the nothingness
There ain't nothing that I need

Hot and heavy pumpkin pie
Chocolate candy Jesus Christ
Ain't nothing please me more than you

Home, let me come home
Home is wherever I'm with you"
This book is a giant cheeseball.
You know the puffy chip kind that try to act like Cheetos It looks like it's gonna taste so good but it only last for a little while and then you realize it's just full of air, no nutrients, and disappointment.
I'm sorry to admit that reading this book felt like that to me,

So premise first, Wren Gray has always done what her parents has told her, But now she is wondering if what her parents want for her, and want she wants for herself actually matches up, It felt like it used to but now she is not so sure, She loves her parents, but can't help but feel like she needs to get some distance, Wren decides to go to Guatemala with Project Unity after the summer is over, and for once not be the perfect daughter, Charlie Parker basically worships the ground Wren walks on, But feels like he isn't good enough for her, He has a rough past and hasn't always been in the best relationships, Right now he lives with foster parents who care for him and he got accepted to go to Georgia Tech, so life is looking up but he can't shake his past that easily.
Wren and Charlie meet of course and the story begins,

This book sounded like something right up my alley, It's set during the summer between high school graduation and the next step, whether that's college or something else entirely, This time always seems to capture the fragile and transient period of possibility, Anything can happen, and it feels like life is just starting, But this book didn't encapsulate that, It was more about Wren and Charlie's physical attraction to each other, The book is filled with very detailed intimate scenes that had me even squirming and eventually it got to be so habitual I was getting bored.
That is not a good sign, Now there was some drama in between, but to be honest it felt unnecessarily complicated and then any situation would resolve too easily, I know I am being confusing but it's because I felt confused while reading it, It felt disjointed and I can't stress enough how important the flow of a story is, It really does help the reader get invested in the characters and their experience,

I should have known this wasn't my kind of book because by chapter two I was rolling my eyes, Charlie already was in love with Wren since the beginning and there is no build up to their relationship, I knew they were definitely physically attracted to each other, but I didn't buy that they had a deep love for one another, They stated it enough and would even point out why they loved each other so much, but since there wasn't a proper build up I just didn't feel it.
To be frank the whole thing between them kind of weirded me out more than gave me the warm and fuzzies, With all this being said the story sometimes was sweet, Especially Charlie and his history, and how he had finally found a family with his foster parents and brother, But that is the only highlight I could connect to,

As always even if the story didn't resonate with me it might with somebody else, I personally couldn't take how needy these two characters came off and it did get WAY too cheesy, and usually I can forgive that but the romance here couldn't do it for me.
Not this time.

Side note: If you are looking for a book about first love I would recommend sitelinkMy Life Next Door, .