This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of This Lullaby
Book Review: review
Summary: 4 Stars
This Lullaby is a captivating story that really hooked me within the first chapter. This Lullaby is about a girl named Remy who has never been in love. She's never let herself or has never wanted to. It's always one boyfriend after the other. This is her last summer with her friends before she travels off to Harvard. So why would she want a boyfriend to tie her down, she doesn't want any attachments when she leaves.
But when she meets Dexter a rock band musician she starts getting scared. She feels too much for him, so instead of showing her feelings she keeps pushing him away. Not wanting to become attached. But every time she pushes him away, he pulls closer and closer. The thing with Remy is she needs cold hard facts of why things are the way they are. When maybe this could be faith, and there are no facts of why these things are happening.
She already has too much stuff to worry about on top of going to college, her moms getting married again for like the fifth time, and Remy is her personal secretary, running all the errands, making sure everything's all set for the wedding.
But when summer's coming to an end Remy starts feeling confused, does she really love Dexter, or is she just scared of the thought of being alone...
Book Review: sounds sweet, but has depth
Summary: 4 Stars
Much like the lullaby of the title is a typical over-played sappy song, Remy's story begins as a typical teen story (girl with messed-up family struggles to come to terms with love). However, both have the makings of something deeper and more meaningful in the hands where they eventually fall. Remy doesn't know what to think of the singer/songwriter father who died before she met him. She knows exactly what to think of her artsy-flighty mom, at least until a new marriage begins to change her. She used to know what to think of her brother until his girlfriend started teaching him to wear shirts with collars and *iron them*! Her gal pals all have comfortable roles in their friendship and she knows what they expect from her. But as high school ends, things are changing. Relationships end both as expected and unexpectedly, so new opportunities open. Should you take a chance on a feeling that flashes through you in a second? Should you stand by the logic you've spent years developing? What happens if neither choice leaves you happy?
This outshines some of Dessen's other teen stories and has the courage to give readers an unconventional ending. As an adult reader, it's 4 or 4.5 stars for me, but the teens in my classes think it is much more of a 5 (or, according to one, a 6!) This is a good shelf selection for grades 8-12. Although Remy has been a wild child and continues to use her fake ID to purchase drinks, she is changing, so the book isn't likely to bother parents too much.
Book Review: the best book!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a book every teenage girl should read. It's just a generally fun and exciting book about Remy Starr, who has given up on love becuase she really has had no reason to change her mind about her bitter feelings towards it.
Remy's dad died when she was a little girl, leaving her only with the song her dad wrote her, called This Lullaby. Remy's mother has been married and divorced several times, creating Remy's views on love. Through the whole book, Remy always had a boyfriend, but they always seemed to be like fun relationships that would end after a short time. That is, until she met Dexter, the boy who change the way she viewed love. They quickly became inseperable, despite the fact that he broke all her rules for boyfriends.
The story of their romance, and of course, breaking up, plus all the other things going on on the side, like her interaction with her 3 best friends, makes me not want to stop reading. Once you get to the middle, it's like you can't put the book down until you reach the end. I've read it a few times already, and I'm not planning on stopping! A definite read!
Book Review: this lullaby
Summary: 2 Stars
i order this product at least a month ago and still haven't got it yet. mostlikely won't buy from these people againBook Review: typical teenager
Summary: 3 Stars
i thought that this book was okay but highly unoriginial. the girl was a slut, and a loser and i guess just your average teenager today this book lacked an interesting plot