Once and for All
NYT Bestseller
Dessen, S. (2017). Once and for all. NY: Penguin Random
House.
Louna is the daughter of famed wedding planner Natalie Barrret. She has seen all sorts of wedding and it has
made Louna a bit cynical to the notion that happily-ever-after-endings
exist. The death of her boyfriend Ethan in
a school shooting derails her views even more on love. Her mom hires Ambrose, the son of a client. Ambrose
by no means is what you would want in a boyfriend. He is a womanizer who has a different woman
on his arm every night. Louna doesn’t
take him seriously at all. He feels he
has found the one and does everything wrong and write to convince Louna of the
same.
Reflection
This is my first Sarah Dessen book. I was not impressed,
maybe because of the time-restraint that I was under. I found Louna boring and
flat. Ambrose was annoying and over-confident. Louna’s grief over Ethan’s death
was not believable. I was also disturbed by the matter-of-fact-way the school
shooting was handled. It wasn’t necessary. I will however give this novel
another chance when I can read it for pleasure.
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