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October 30, 2009
This is What I Want to Tell You - Book Review
This is What I Want to Tell You by Heather Duffy Stone
Book review by: Anam Tariq
Nadio and Noelle are fraternal twins; add in Keeley, heir childhood friend and you get a perfect family. But when Keeley goes to Oxford, one summer vacation, everything changes. Noelle begins to feel lonely, afraid of being left behind, that she begins to hang out with shady characters to fill the gap in her heart. However, once Keeley arrives back from her trip, she too is different, in that she isn't open about her trip. In fact she's afraid to speak about her experience. Nadio is at a loss, as to what to do...how should he protect his sister and in the meantime protect his new found love with Keeley?
This is What I Want to Tell You, by Heather Duffy Stone, is a great teen novel portraying elements of love, loneliness, and desperation. Not to mention that High School life is always hectic. The novel is told in two points of views - Noelle and Nadio, giving an insight to Noelle's and Nadio's life and emotions. "Why don't people ever see the way other kinds of love can wreck you? What about the way being left out of love can wreck you?"
Posted by egoldberg at October 30, 2009 8:30 AM