How to Love is a love story. But it isn't just a boy meets girls and "stuff" happens love story.
The jumping off point for the story is Reena getting
pregnant at 16 and Sawyer taking off. The chapters in this book
alternate between Before & After. The "before" is before Reena got
pregnant at 16 and Sawyer leaves town. The "after" picks up in the
present (two years after Sawyer left) with Sawyer's return.
Reena has known Sawyer pretty much forever and has had a crush on ever since she was old enough to start liking boys. She loves her best friend Allie, her parents and her brother very much. However Reena is not very open about her feelings and this makes for a lot of hurt and resentment she holds in for a very long time.
I enjoyed the way the story was fleshed out in pieces and the back and forth worked. None of the characters are perfect cookie cutter people and so come off the page flawed and human which is something I appreciate and find makes a story more enjoyable.
(finished January 20, 2014)
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