When We Were

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Pub Date 29 Sep 2015 | Archive Date 17 Nov 2015

Description

No one messes with Whitney Blaire or her friends, which is why she can’t help but let it slip that someone spotted Tara’s boyfriend making out with one of the guy cheerleaders.

Even after spending hours training for her marathon, down-to-earth Tara can't outrun the rumors about the boyfriend she thought was perfect.

Pinkie, the rock and "Big Sister" of their inseparable group, just wants things to stay exactly the way they are...

...but that's not possible when new-girl Riley arrives in school and changes everything.
Suddenly Tara starts to feel things she's never felt before—for anyone—while Whitney Blaire tries to convince her that this new girl is Trouble. Meanwhile, Pinkie’s world begins to crumble as she begins to suspect that the friends she depends on are not the girls she thought she knew. Can friendship survive when all the rules are broken?

Previously published as OF ALL THE STUPID THINGS, this coming of age novel is a 2011 ALA Rainbow List Book and a 2011 New Mexico Book Award Finalist.
No one messes with Whitney Blaire or her friends, which is why she can’t help but let it slip that someone spotted Tara’s boyfriend making out with one of the guy cheerleaders.

Even after spending...

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I ended up enjoying this more than I expected. I'm not the biggest fan of contemporary, especially where there's an emphasis on romance (as well my blog readers know), so it took me a little while to settle down into this one. At first, I definitely identified most with Pinkie, who is a total nerd, although she works a whole lot harder than I ever did in school. But as I learned more about her, I became less sure that we were alike, and started identifying with all sorts of characters.

They weren't all likeable: they were fallible humans who made mistakes, misjudged things, and said the wrong thing. But at the centre of the book was a meaningful three-way friendship that changed and developed according to what else was going on, and I liked that.

It was well written, some of the romance was ADORABLE (particularly the f/f romance, that was SO CUTE even I wasn't 100% convinced by Riley because she made a few mistakes that seemed kinda vindictive; she did apologise a lot, though, and try to make up for it, so I guess that was okay), and it made me smile. So yeah, once I got into it, I actually became really invested and started to really care what happened.

A full review on my blog will be posted shortly (link below may only lead to homepage until post is up, I'm not sure).

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