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Omg GRL. I read it when I was like idk maybe 14 or something and I have a vague memory of liking it. BUT NOW. The general story line I quite like and I'm going to keep reading to find out what happens, but so much is just... so bad. So much of what people say is just like. Not how teenagers/people talk. And the ~love interest~ says some really lame things but maybe young teenage girls are into lameness. But I mean. For instance. Her mom told her that her long lost father was "born to run" and was completely serious and did not mean it in the least bit of an ironic way. In another instance. They keep having the girl embarrass herself in front of the guy, and at one point he sees her PEEING ON A PATCH OF SAND AT THE BEACH and then she just "changes the subject" like that is just something she can brush off. IT'S NOT. IT'S DISGUSTING. And the whole reason she was peeing on the beach is because she's a serious runner and needs to stay hydrated and then had to pee and had nowhere to go. If you run like 15 miles at a time, wouldn't you know to plan ahead and figure out where you can stop? Like you just would. You would know from experience that somewhere along the way you are going to have to pee and the SAND ON THE BEACH is not the place to go. Furthermore. The guy is named Zander and at one point he mentions an ex-girlfriend named Buffy. Okay because that's not completely stolen from ANYTHING. And obviously the girl's mother is named Bebe because if your character is going to be an aging groupie, obviously you're just going to have to steal that from a real groupie because why would you bother thinking of something yourself??? OH OH OH and so the love interest is a musician, right? Sure he's young but he's a MUSICIAN, HE'S SERIOUS ABOUT THIS. Despite this fact, at one point he refers to Elvis and the Beatles as BANDS WHO HAVE BEEN DEAD FOREVER or something like that. REALLY? Really though? Really. REALLY? Really. Okay, and I take this character seriously NOT. There's so much talk from this main girl especially about her mother's ~*~so uncool and so out of date~*~ musical taste and it's like FUCK YOU!!!!! I get the stereotype of the REBELLIOUS NAIVE STUPID TEENAGER but if she's been raised by a music fanatic, shouldn't she have some sense??? And I'm sorry but when the mother casually is like, o I'm seeing Hall and Oates tonight, and then the next night it's like, o I'm seeing Duran Duran and the next night it's some other huge band. I'm sorry but where do you live again? They have this set in some EAST JESUS NOWHERE town but for some reason all these epic bands are playing there ALL THE TIME because why not??????? Oh!! Oh!! And so when the girl first met the guy, she was running OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S WHAT SHE DOES and he pops up out of nowhere and starts running along side her and is like LOL because she's singing out loud, horribly and with many wrong words, so then when the guy's band has a show like, the next day, she shows up and LO AND BEHOLD, HE'S PERFORMING A SONG ABOUT HERRRRRRRRRRR. A song like SHE CAN RUN BUT SHE CAN'T SING TO SAVE HER LIFE. Because obviously in that 24 hours, this guy was able to just whip this song up out of thin air, get his entire band on board, get the whole band to learn it and probably create their own parts, and be willing to play it the next night because THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS IN THE REAL WORLD. Anyway I obviously wanted to get this off my chest THANKS FOR ASKING!!!!!!!! AND THIS IS ONLY 40 PAGES IN.

YOU'VE CONVINCED ME I MUST READ THIS IF ONLY FOR THE LOLZ

YOU PROBABLY SHOULD. WE CAN HAVE A BOOK CLUB OF ONLY EMBARRASSINGLY AWFUL BOOKS. I read a few more pages last night and she, the boy, and her mom all went out to eat and on the walk from the car to the restaurant, they all linked arms and "belted" the song that he wrote about her. Because one, that's something that happens, two, it totally makes sense that they all know the words especially since her mom wasn't even at his show

SPOILER ALERT!!