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Review: Since You've Been Gone

Since You've Been Gone Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Me

That was the exact face I made upon finishing the last sentence of Since You've Been Gone.

Yay this was a really fun read! I was going to write "Yay this was a really good book!", but I think that might be giving it a little too much merit. I realized a lot of revelations before the main character did, the writing didn't blow me away, and there weren't any hard hitting deep meanings, but you know what? This was still a fun, entertaining, quick read, and I loved it. Whenever I wasn't reading it, I wanted to be reading it. Take into consideration that I read this while on vacation, so there were a lot of other things that I could have chosen to ocupy my time.

Now that the run down is over, let's get to buisness. How. Was. The. Romance? Um. Fine. Hm, fine sounds a little to stern. It was okay... Good? Was it good? I dunno. I mean, I liked the love interest. They were cool and all. But I was never reeeaally rooting hard for them to get together, you know? But yeah, I mean they do still make a good couple I think. I also feel like I don't know what I'm talking about so I'll shut up.

The characters were cool. I feel like I can't say much without spoilers so....

(view spoiler)

Yeah. Pretty sick book. This and Second Chance Summer by the Mattsonator were pretty good.

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