My Never Ending List

I hate books like this. I stay up all night reading them and then, I am so frustrated at the characters I can’t sleep. Let’s talk about Sam first.  She has this huge crush on her best and only friend Nick.  Now instead of expressing her feeling to Nick, she wants to make him jealous so that he will come running into her arms, oh come on Sam!  Needless to say, this plan backfires and Sam messed up her life and many of those around her.  If only she would have talked to Nick she would have realized that he had feelings towards her and their childhood relationship would have stepped up a notch.  To make Nick jealous, she uses Carter.  It’s Carter: the golden boy, the captain of the popular sports, who “people are drawn to him like a moth to flame.”   If only Sam could have used her words the night of the party, things would have turned out differently but she was so emotionally upset she heard nothing. Her silence as she ran out of the heaving crowd said too much.  Carter, oh this boy is too self-absorbed and the things that fly out of his mouth…..something definitely needs to be done with him.   I can see why he has a following of boys behind him as he is definitely a leader with his over-confident behavior and his mannerism to speak his mind.  But to be accused of rape when the charge is not justified will just add fuel to his attitude.   Then we have Nick, I have mixed feeling about Nick.  This guy needs to get with the program, seriously.  He has feelings for her and yet he lets her walk into this meat-market of a party when she basically has no friends and let’s her wander around by herself in that so-called skirt.  What kind of a friend does that? Even someone who has no romantic feeling towards that individual wouldn’t let a friend do that. His reaction when he hears what happened at the party, it’s not what I expected.  When he says he likes Sam, I think he is confused as I don’t know if he really does.

So many times Sam could have come clean with the truth but it just was not convenient for her, which is so sad for the other parties involved.  So many lives were damaged because she just couldn’t bring herself to face the truth.  She knew what she did was wrong but for her, to make it right was just so hard.  I was apprehensive about what Nick might do when he heard the truth about the night of the party as there were many different reactions he might have and I was actually glad for the one he chose.  The truth is supposed to set you free, not necessary give you a happily ever after but to clear your conscience and relieve your mind and this book reminds you of that.

Mature readers only as of the subject matter and language.