![]() ![]() Like a fairy tale, Helen is trying to shield Hanna from the harsh reality of life and love. In a kind of parallel story happening at the same time Helen, Hanna’s grandma of sorts, is trying to cope with the fact that she is old, dying, and has never really been honest with Hanna about her life. Being an avid reader I can sympathize with Hanna, it is sometimes hard to see the line between fiction and reality. Everyone has a story (in most cases STRANGER than fiction) and some times it’s so easy to get lost in someone else’s reality. One of the things Seth points out to Hanna is that she reads too much and lives her life in fiction. Her boyfriend, Seth, is such an asshole though that it’s hard to understand Hanna’s ‘love’ for him at some points, it made it more difficult to like him but at the same time, Hanna did a great job reminding the reader what attracts girls to guys like Seth in the first place at that age–at any rate Seth as a total loser and Hanna just can’t stay away from him. Every girl goes through that rude awaking moment when they realize their life isn’t going to turn out like a Walt Disney movie and Hanna does a great job of conveying those feelings of disappointment. Hanna (the high school character) is really engaging and captures the essence of a young teen struggling with the heart break of her first love. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would classify the novel as having a split personality disorder meaning it could be classified as a Young Adult (YA) and adult book as one main character is a high school student and the other is an older woman. It is a quick read and Weiss does a great job making interesting characters that readers can relate to. It is one of those that just captures you right away. I was pleasantly surprised by this book, How it Ends by Laura Weiss. ![]()
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