SEVEN WEEKS. SEVEN LIVES. SEVEN STORIES. Jeremy's life was perfect. He was the running back of the football team. He had been dating Tara, the most beautiful girl in school, for two years. Then he met Josh. SEVEN YEARS AGO, A TRAGEDY TORE THEM APART. NOW, FATE WILL BRING THEM BACK TOGETHER.
Jeremy thinks about what happened when he kissed a guy, and Meena returns home, only to find that the real cause of the fire has been found. Karyn has pressure put on her by other girls since she's still a virgin. Danny is having problems with the medicine he's been taking. Peter gets made fun of at school by a kid who is stoned, and Jane is having problems of her own.
Meena's mother says Meena is going to see a psychiatrist. Jeremy is still denying that he's gay. Karyn and her mother have a major argument. Jeremy finds out that information about his kissing the guy is now up on the unofficial school Internet gossip page.
A good second book in the series. Keeping seven characters interesting at one time, (not counting the supporting characters), is a difficult job, but the author, so far, is managing to do that job quite well.
This book was a bit better than the first, plus this one only took me a little over my lunch break to read. I'm still having a little trouble remembering who is who, but not as much as I was having with the first book. I believe that being able to read this in one sitting really helped with this.
This book focuses Jeremy, but still continues stories of other characters we met in book one. I think I also enjoyed it more due to the different character focus as Meena's problems and how she was dealing with them were emotionally draining for me personally. I was a little surprised that the end of this book ended in a similar fashion as book one, and it makes me wonder if this will be how all the books end.
Curious to see who I become more acquainted with in the next book.
This second book adds the perspective of Karen to the mix. We've now heard from Peter, Meena, Jeremy, Peter, and Karen. While this does feel a bit like a transitional novel, I wouldn't say it suffers from Second-Book Syndrome. Instead, we get to see how the big events in book one affect the lives of the characters.
Please note that this book does contain a lot of homophobic slurs, but they are not condoned by the characters. I do think you can feel the 2002 setting a bit more due to the way the characters speak in this book, and by the other references to music and TV shows.
This book continues the series...Jeremy tells his story in this volume. He is trying to come to terms with his involvement with another young man and how his friends and family are handling the situation.