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However, I did like the concept of the novel. For the amount of conversation in this book Clare and Aidan didn’t seem to be communicating their feelings very well and were constantly on the wrong page. In the beginning it certainly felt like Clare was stringing Aidan along, because out of the pair she seemed like the one that knew what she wanted. Surely, they don’t really love one another if trying it out wasn’t even in the cards.

It took them forever to come to a decision about whether they should stay together and I thought Clare’s logic was skewed and the fact that they couldn’t even be bothered to try a long distance relationship really bothered me. Instead we got a lot of repetitive conversations where the characters wanted to have their cake and eat it too. What I can conclude from reading this book is that my favourite part of any story is always the slow and gradual build-up from being friends to being together and that was completely missing from this book. It took me a while to figure out why I felt this way and in the end I realised it was because Aidan and Clare were already in a relationship and this was the story of their break-up rather than the build-up to their happy ending. Like we started half way through their story. I felt like the characters had come to us fully formed, with little to no room for development. If opposites attract it’s pretty easy to put two and two together, right? This dynamic has been done plenty of times before so I found how the characters were interacting with one another to be rather predictable. His best friend is a bit of a clown who didn’t try very hard at school so winds up in a community college. Her best friend is a manic pixie dream girl, who even comes with a quirk – this time it’s picking out one word from the dictionary that she has to get into conversation. You’ve got the mismatched couple: he’s a jock and she’s super organised and a little nerdy. Unfortunately, it was full of stock characters.

And although it had a few gems, overall the story was pretty generic and much like the million teen rom-coms I’ve seen before. The basic premise is that Aidan and Clare are just about to go off to university (literally they’re one day away) and they’re trying to decide whether or not to break up. So, I picked up Hello, Goodbye, And Everything In Between, because all I’ve been doing recently is watching Pretty Little Liars (we’re on season 3, if you’re interested and Spoby is life.) At 248 pages I was confident I could finish it in one sitting, and I did! Which hopefully makes up for the fact I haven’t finished a book in over a week. Hello, Goodbye, And Everything In Between by Jennifer E.

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