Obtain Immediately Aaron Lets Go (Making Out, #14) Crafted By Katherine Applegate Shared As Electronic Format
nostalgic for the books of my youth, I revisited sitelinkKatherine Applegate and her Islanders omnibus editions first released as the Making Out series way back in.
Yes, I am that old,
While I found them to be overlydramatic and a little bit cheesy on second reading, I think they would be loved by teenagers today.
YA has taken a muchwelcome step in the sphere of fantasy, science fiction and Dystopia, largely, in recent years so for teenagers looking for the traditional romance novels filled with teenangst and buried secrets, these are a good series to turn to.
A little bit Dawson's Creek in it's setting and it's drama, The Islanders is the perfect teen soap opera.
Aaron is an Ahole!
Lara's creepy behaviour makes the book feel like a psycho stalker thriller!
I'm actually rooting for Jake!
Nina coming onto a confused unaware Jake to make unaware Benjamin jealous is the funniest thing!
And as always, Claire gets too close to someone else's boyfriend her sister's to be exact.
I'm sick of her hanging onto her past relationships! She's always going on about her ex's and the things that are still between them even though they're all in other relationships with her "friends".
She actually thinks the world revolves around her which is probably why I felt no sympathy for her in her current situation.
Halfway through the series, I hope we get some different narratives,.Bookfinished means Im halfway through my grand reread of the magnificent Making Out series, And look weve got MY FAVOURITE GUY Aaron on the cover:
These are my copies of the books.
Theyre probably the dirtiest items in my whole house, You can see how books had its top sliced off, and Booklooks like Ive been chewing on it which Im almost certain I havent been.
I like this book because its the one where Benjamin and Lara start to cement their friendship, which I like because its based on art and siblinghood and it helps Benjamin with his whole deal.
Nina and Benjamin are still broken up and there are some surprisingly funny comic relief scenes where Nina is trying to make Benjamin jealous by flirting with Jake, who could not be more baffled or less interested.
At one point Claire goes over to Benjamins to try and smooth things over between him and Nina, Claire KISSES Benjamin, because why wouldnt she And of course Zoey is lurking nearby and sees everything, I wonder if thatll come back to bite Claire in the ass Surely not, Claire is the Puppet Master of Chatham Island, her friends and family merely her playthings! Mwooohahaha!
Speaking of Claire, shes trying her best to get over Aaron by conspiring with him to split up their blissfully happy parents.
Im not sure what her plan is at the moment, but it involves a lot of phone conversations like this:
AARON: Claire youre so beautiful.
CLAIRE: I know that but this is business Aaron, Were the best manipulators in this whole damn place, we need to combine our powers and break up our parents.
AARON: I cant manipulate when all I can think about is your lustrous hair,
CLAIRE: MINE IS THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE!
Aisha and her Westeros Scholarship rival have a makeout session in the library late one night while the other patrons look on and applaud yeah it was pretty weird.
Meanwhile Christopher has sent a letter from Army, talking about how he still loves Aisha, Doh! Whats Aisha to do I hope she doesnt go wild again like in book, Aisha Goes Wild, Mostly because having another concussion wont help her win any scholarships,
Theres nothing much going on with Zoey and Lucas at the moment, The book culminates in an extremely illjudged surprise birthday party for Benjaminsth, organised by Zoey who does not invite Lara which I find unbelievably petty.
Aaron shows up uninvited and Lucas throws a punch at him that ends up knocking out Kate, Jake takes Kate outside to wake her up Lara is lurking nearby, which is a thing people do in these books and stanches the flow of blood from her nose with a strip hes ripped off the bottom of his shirt.
This is important for later books,
Fave moments:
Claire is driving home from the illfated Valentines party from the end of book, and picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be Kate.
Kate is carrying a can of Binaca like Elaine has in Seinfeld!
Nina tries to figure out what to say to comfort Claire after the Aaron and Kate debacle:
“”Claire, Im sorry that your boyfriend turned out to be as big a jerk as you are, “ she said aloud.
No, that wasnt the approach she was going for, ” diese Buchreihe hat mich während meiner Teeniezeit begleitet, ich habe sie so geliebt, . . The new people are adding lots of drama to the
island and I love it They've all grown up together on a tiny island.
They think they know everything about one another, . . but they're only just beginning to find out the truth, Aaron lets go and gets into a fight at Ben's party because he's so desperate to win Claire's love again.
Everything had been perfect until that moment's mistake with Kate, But now Claire has made her decision and it looks as if nothing will change her mind,
Aaron lets go and gets into a fight at Ben's party because he's so desperate to win Claire's love again.
Everything had been perfect until that moment's mistake with Kate, But now Claire has made her decision and it looks as if nothing will change her mind, heart eyes I strongly dislike Aaron and the fact that Claire is turning into a shrew, Stop trying to ruin everyone's life and focus on graduation instead,
Was very pleasantly surprised to notice that I kind of root for Jake, At the very beginning of the MO saga, I couldn't care less about him, But now, he grew up, older, wiser, He seems to be the only genuine and authentic character, compared to other ludicruous story lines,
I still hate Benjamin for his attitude towards Nina but I can't help understand him at the bottom of it all, he is going through massive sht.
I can't wait to see how all of this is going to turn around in the next books ! Why is the English title "Aaron lets go" He doesn't let go Persistence is his whole thing Or do they mean of Kate Given all the dumb plotting he and Claire get up to, it should've been "Aaron, let's go!"
I really liked Benjamin and Lara bonding over art and literature and emotionally dark places.
Really interesting combination.
I wish Aisha got any interesting plotlines outside of dating, This one with her "rival" is tedious, teaches you about relationships. Katherine Applegate is the author of The One and Only Ivan, winner of theNewbery Medal, Her novel Crenshaw spent over twenty weeks on the New York Times childrens bestseller list, and her first middle grade stand alone novel, the award winning Home of the Brave, continues to be included on state reading lists, summer reading lists, and class reading lists.
Katherine has written three picture books: The Buffalo Storm The Remarkable True Story of Ivan, the Shopping Mall Gorilla often used as a companion book to The One and Only Ivan for younger readers and Sometimes You Fly publishing in spring,.
For beginning readers, Katherine wrote Roscoe Riley Rules, a seven book series, With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co wrote Katherine Applegate is the author of The One and Only Ivan, winner of theNewbery Medal.
Her novel Crenshaw spent over twenty weeks on the New York Times children's bestseller list, and her first middle grade stand alone novel, the award winning Home of the Brave, continues to be included on state reading lists, summer reading lists, and class reading lists.
Katherine has written three picture books: The Buffalo Storm The Remarkable True Story of Ivan, the Shopping Mall Gorilla often used as a companion book to The One and Only Ivan for younger readers and Sometimes You Fly publishing in spring,.
For beginning readers, Katherine wrote Roscoe Riley Rules, a seven book series, With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co wrote Animorphs, a long running series that has sold overmillion books worldwide.
Katherine lives in Marin County, California, with her family and assorted pets, sitelink.