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beautiful and heartfelt story about art and love! reread May: nearly two years later and this is still one of my favorite books ever.
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WARNING
Will cause:
Swooning
Idiotic smiling to oneself
Fits of laughter
Sleep deprivation
May invoke artistic expression
Will invoke the feels, or in medical terms, the warm and fuzzies.


Night Owls was absolutely phenomenal, adventurous, heartwarming and incredibly lovely, Previously called The Anatomical Shape of a Heart for the overseas market, it follows the story of Beatrix, determined, creative and incredibly quick witted, An artist fascinated with the human body, she wants to illustrate cadavers and it's there on her way home from an interview at the hospital where she meets Jack, exuding confidence and mystery.
I can't remember the last time I had read a romance so utterly lovely, where two characters were more ideal for one another, I adored both Beatrix and Jack as individuals, and even more so together, Both artists, their natural chemistry shone through the pages as the two formed an attraction, leading eventually to gentle and tentative relationship,

Reminiscent of the Australian classic Graffiti Moon, Jack is a graffiti artist, His choice of art is created by a gold spray can at landmarks around San Francisco, But Jack isn't a hooligan, his art represents a side of his life that no one understands, a secret that threatens to tear his family apart.
His reasoning was beautiful, it made my heart ache that a young man would go to those kind of lengths and hence, the swooning began.


It made my heart soar,

The storyline is utterly captivating, From the first few pages, I was completely immersed and emotionally attached to both Beatrix and Jack, This is a couple you can't help but cheer on as they flirt their way through the chemistry that sizzles among the pages, There is no excess drama, but both teens have their own issues that are slowly unraveled throughout the storyline, Wonderfully paced, I read long into the early hours of the morning and simply couldn't put it down, One of the loveliest, heartwarming, contemporary romances I've read in young adult to date,

Beautifully written, Night Owls is an engaging adventure romance beginning in the most unlikely of places, Jenn Bennett has crafted an immaculate storyline to warm your heart and steal your breath away, I adored it. Madly. Words: Family, friendship, secrets, graffiti, art,

I have to admit that the start of this story was pretty mediocre, and if it hadn't been for that very rocky start this would have got a full five.
It took untilfor me to really warm to the story and the characters, and I was just about to give up when things started getting good.
So stick with it and push through, because it is worth it,

This story is sweet and funny and slightly heartbreaking all at once,

I received a copy of this for free via NetGalley for review purposes, Beatrix Adams knows exactly how shes spending the summer before her senior year, Determined to follow in Da Vincis footsteps, shes ready to tackle the one thing that will give her an advantage in a museumsponsored scholarship contest: drawing actual cadavers.
But when she tries to sneak her way into the hospitals Willed Body program and misses the last metro train home, she meets a boy who turns her summer plans upside down.


Jack is charming, wildly attractive, and possibly one of San Franciscos most notorious graffiti artists, On midnight buses and city rooftops, Beatrix begins to see who Jack really isand tries to uncover what hes hiding that leaves him so wounded.
But will these secrets come back to haunt him Or will the skeletons in her familys closet tear them apart This is my second Jenn Bennett book and whilst i didn't enjoy it as much as sitelinkAlex, Approximately I did enjoy it.

The plot was fairly simplistic and easy to follow and I liked both of the main characters,
it is literally impossible to feel more whatever, more blah, more okaysurefine about a book than i feel about this one,

will i review it who knows, probably not, unless you count me copy/pasting the word "eh",times as a review, This was cute, and I liked Jackson and Bex,
I loved the setting of San Francisco, and want to go there,
I liked the art,
I liked the positive view of sex,

I didn't like Bex's mum, her actions, excuses or how easily it was all dismissed, In fact both sets of parents were highly unlikeable!
The mental illness rep made me feel a bit uneasy too,

This was Jenn Bennett's first YA novel, and I think you can tell, I enjoyed it, but it was my least favourite so far,
Recommended for a quick, light read,

Why is this called sitelinkNight Owls in the UK, but sitelinkThe Anatomical Shape of a Heart elsewhere! I thought it was two different books for ages! This shit confuses me

"Earth to Beatrix.
This was the night bus, not a Journey song, Two strangers were not on a midnight train going anywhere, "

Im kind of bummed that I cant rate this book higher, but this book has a pretty big amount of instalove seeping through its pages.
To be fair, the teen romance is nicely build up and the story has a positive attitude towards sex, but after reading for theth time how hot Jack looked I was ready to throw this book into the dustbin.


The main characters in this book are Beatrix, a calm artsy girl who wants to be medical illustrator, and Jack, a rich, handsome boy who is secretly a notorious graffiti artist.
As an art student this should send me over the moon, but sadly we only get a couple of scenes about art, and a whole lot more on describing how deaddrop gorgeous Jack is.

"He was all retro and rockabilly and cool, If James Dean and David Beckham had a baby, it would be Jack, That jewelthief outfit hed been wearing that first night was a total criminal disguise, "

Those descriptions made reading this book pretty tiring, but what I did love was that Beatrix and Jack become a couple in a normal, realistic way.
They go on a couple of dates, Jack meets Beatrix her family, he invites her over to meet his friends, and only after all that they share their first kiss.

The two also are very open about sex: both Jack and Beatrix bring condoms to their date, and before they begin Jack asks what Beatrix likes and doesnt.
Very few YAnovels handle sex so maturely, so applause for that,

However, I found Jack just too good to be true, Apart from his good looks and graffiti skills, Jack is namely a Buddhist, the mayors son, in possession of a blackCorvette called “Ghost”, and hiding a tragic past behind his dark eyelashes and strong cheekbones.
In conclusion: Jack is a bit of a Manic Pixie Dream Boy, Hes basically there to show Beatrix a whole new world and to help her make her dreams come true, Granted, his tragic past is more complex that you would think, but when the secret is revealed the most interesting part of Jacks character disappears.


The other secrets and conflicts in this book resolve around family issues, but because all the family members are so onedimensional, I felt pretty indifferent about them.
Jacks father was a stereotypical jerkass and the struggle of Beatrix's mother with her divorce was underdeveloped and resolved within a week, so I didn't care about those family troubles.


So despite portraying a healthy young couple with some good chemistry, Night Owls didnt do much for me, I admire the honest conversations about sex and the message that you should fight to make your art dreams come true, but for the rest this story had little tension, a few easilysolved problems and uninteresting sidecharacters.

If this book wanted more than two, it needed to be a whole lot better, REALLY enjoyed Bennett's debut foray into YA, Not only is it swoonworthy, sexpositive, and unique in its casting of hero and heroine, but it's also familycentric and impeccably wellwritten, Can't wait to see what else Bennett has in store for us, both Adult and YA, There aren't enough in the sky to rate this book, I love these two like whoa and it might have been better the second time around, Riveted from the start, Heartbreaking goodness!

Jackson: A bit retro rockabilly in black

Bex: always in braids


Truly a powerful story.
This is a YA story of first love between two outcasts, Beatrix Bex has a love of drawing anatomy and is trying to get permission to sit in on the medical school anatomy classes so she can sketch the

people who have given their bodies to science to be dissected so she can try to win a scholarship and become a medical illustrator.
Her classmates at school had nicknamed her Mortician,

She meets Jackson Jack on a late bus one night and as they talk and stare at each other, he loses track of time and nearly misses his stop.
When he gets up to leave a can of expensive gold spray paint falls out of his backpack, She figures out he is the graffiti artist wanted for some large gold graffiti popping up around town lately that has been in the news.

"He was all retro and rockabilly and cool, If James Dean and David Beckham had a baby, it would be Jack, That jewelthief outfit hed been wearing that first night was a total criminal disguise, "

The book is full of the angst of first love, both of them are seniors in high school and have family issues.
They are both artists and he is a Bhuddhist, The romance between them is sweet and beautiful while some of the issues keeping them apart at first are achingly tragic and unexpected, The characterizations are terrific, story development and flow is perfect and the descriptions of San Francisco are awesome, There are several supporting characters that add to the story, Overall I really liked the story and recommend the book!

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