Too Good to Be True

Sweet Dreams

by Susan Kirby

When Marty falls for Hank, another worker at the maple sugar camp where she works, she breaks up with her predictable boyfriend, Darrin, but Hank seems in no hurry to break up with his girlfriend

Genres: Young Adult

136 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1, 1991

Reviews

[Liralen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Darrin wasn't home, but Marty thought she should buy the tickets anyway and make it her treat. She hesitated, thinking it over. The concert was on a Friday night, and Darrin always spent Friday nights hanging out with his friends. If he wasn't interested in the concert, she wouldn't get to see Phantom Spry and she'd be broke besides! (2)

That's right, folks: Marty is convinced that she's not allowed to have any fun of her own if her boyfriend already has plans that don't include her. Aiiii.

I read this because it takes place partly at a maple-syrup camp (and my brain has been fried lately and I don't have the mental energy for anything much more taxing), but aiiii. Darrin gets mad at Marty for picking up some seasonal work at said maple-syrup camp—owned by a friend's relative—because Marty has a teenage male coworker. And apparently being a girl in a relationship + having a male coworker = cheating. My god.

But Marty raised her chin. She believed in women's lib, didn't she? Who said she needed a date to have a good time at her best friend's party? She'd go, and she'd have fun if it killed her? (113)

Oh, Marty. How far you've come, and how far you have yet to go.

[Oshin Sakaguchi · Rating 2 out of 5]

A quick and brainless read.

[Elishia · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5