This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of This Lullaby
Book Review: "This Lullaby" - A Review by Buffie M.
Summary: 4 Stars
"This Lullaby", written by Sarah Dessen, is a relatable, spunky adventure that takes you into the depths of a teenage girl's past as she navigates through the present. The protagonist, Remy Starr, is a perfectionist who likes to think she has the capacity to take care of everything around her. Remy is therefore taken by surprise when she realizes that she cannot control her own feelings about the clumsy yet lovable Dexter. I enjoyed reading how Remy discovers what love is, and I recommend this novel!Book Review: A Beautiful Story
Summary: 5 Stars
Remy doesn't believe in love. After all, if your mom has divorced and remarried about five times, how could she? And why does her mom suddenly think this new guy is "the one?" Remy's got all her relationship rules all laid out. After she gets too close to a guy, she dumps him.
But then she meets Dexter, and something about him is different. He just won't let her push him away, and soon a real relationship develops between them. Of course, there are always the complications: Remy is only looking for a summer relationship before heading off to college, Dexter isn't.
This Lullaby follows Remy through her ups and downs in her relationships with her friends, her mom, Dexter, and the song her dead father wrote. Remy's struggles are very realistic and easy to follow. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, like I enjoyed Sarah Dessen's other books, and I am eagerly awaiting the release of Lock and Key, another novel by Sarah Dessen. I would highly recommend this book and Sarah Dessen's other books to everyone, especially fans of Dab Caletti.
Book Review: A Fabulous, Realistic Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my favorite books. There are many reasons why I think this, but the main reason is because it's realistic. First of all the characters are realistic, and not fake. The main character, Remy, isn't perfect and doesn't have a perfect life. She has flaws (just like a real person) and this makes her easy to relate to. Throughout the book I could see myself in Remy's shoes because I felt like I knew her so well. Sarah Dessen really made me care about what happened to the characters.
The problems that each character faced in this book were also realistic. Sarah Dessen didn't just make up some random problem that would never happen in a million years. She gave the characters problems that are happening to real-life people everyday. For example, Remy's mother has had to deal with divorce and getting remarried. Remy has to deal with falling in love and learning to trust Dexter. These are all real things that many people will be able to relate to.
Some other reasons why you should definitely go out and read this book is because it's written very well, it's hilarious, and you feel good when you've finished reading the book. It gives you a sense of hope that everything will be okay.
Book Review: A Must for Hopeless Romantics
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fantastic, easy read for everyone who has ever felt like giving up on love or anyone who wants love. Every time I start this book I end up staying up late several nights in a row (much to the dismay of my bosses the next day), unable to put this book down. Remy is a wonderful character that seems to talk directly to the reader and Dexter is the wonderful guy that every girl dreams of falling in love with. This book is worth your time and energy. You really won't be disappointed.Book Review: A bit too depressing for my taste
Summary: 3 Stars
"This Lullaby" was my first Dessen book and will probably be the last. It has nothing to with the writing, but this kind of slightly depressing YA chick lit a la Jennifer Weiner is simply not my cup of tea.
This book is normally described as a super sweet romance, but it never felt like one to me. Rather, it was a story of a girl disillusioned in love who finally allowed herself to open herself up to an honest relationship with a man.
There was really nothing wrong with this story. The characters were very well drawn in comparison to those in many other YA novels I've read. They were compelling and understandable and their relationships with each other felt real. Dexter as the main male lead was extremely likable. Remy appeared a little harder to understand and appreciate. For her 18 years of age she was awfully negative and cynical and I found it very hard at times to remain in her head, because it seemed to me she never took any pleasure in anything, even in her short relationship with Dexter. Maybe I would have understood her better if her personality was explored more thoroughly: Why exactly was she so angry with her father, after all, he never did her any harm, he died when she was just a toddler? What made her clean up her act and abandon her promiscuous life style and drug use? Why, with all her disillusionment in love, did she keep having these 2-months romances? What exactly did she want from these relationships? I also wanted to know more about Remy's friends, especially about always in a background Jess, and about Chloe, who was as cynical as Remy, but what was her reason? And lastly, these 4 girls seemed strangely too mature and jaded for their age. Throughout the book I kept thinking that if you take the words "high school graduation" and "college" out of the story, you basically get on your hands a group of "Sex and the City" girls.
"This Lullaby" was by no means a bad book, it was a fast and engaging story, but it left me fairly unsatisfied and not really inspired to read any other books by the author.