One Night That Changes Everything
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Dating & Sex
3.6
(77)
Lauren Barnholdt
Two years ago, when Eliza Sellman was in ninth grade, her dad found out he was being transfered and the family was going to move. Having always been shy and not so confident about her body, Eliza took that opportunity to start a list in her private notebook of all the things she planned on doing when she moved but had always been afraid to--like wearing a miniskirt and asking guys to dance; singing karaoke in front of strangers; posting a photo of herself on her Facebook wall in a bikini...you get the idea. New town, new Eliza, right? Well, she'll never know because the transfer fell through and they didn't move. But Eliza kept adding her goals and secret fears to the list in the notebook. Now it's two years later, and in that time Eliza has had and lost her first boyfriend. But this was more than your average breakup...turns out the sweet and cute Cooper was only dating her as a hazing stunt by a secret society. Eliza got her revenge by posting some pretty nasty (and only sort-of true) stuff about Cooper online. That posting has had major consequences and now Cooper and his buddies have stolen her private notebook and won't give it back until she performs all the things on her list in one night. It's torture...until Eliza steals something from the boys she knows they'll want to trade her notebook for. What starts out as a night of humiliation turns into a night of revelations as Eliza learns what Cooper was really thinking when they dated, the real reason he's stolen her notebook, and how freeing--and life-changing--it can be to do the things you fear the most.
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Author
Lauren Barnholdt
Pages
256
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2010-07-06
ISBN
1416994807 9781416994800
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"I'm still on the fence with this one. I liked it in parts, but there were other parts that I didn't care for too much. I liked the idea of the book. It was fun and intriguing. I'm not so sure I really liked Cooper, even towards the end.<br/><br/>I thought this would be a really fun read. While it was fun, I had a hard time with Eliza's friends always seeming to ditch her and randomly disappear when she needed them most. And I'm not sure what to make of the secret society. It felt like a cop out for Cooper.<br/><br/>I really liked Eliza though. And I liked the idea of her notebook. How she wrote all her fears in there for years. I thought it was a pretty neat idea. I liked to see how her fears have evolved and it gave a bit of insight into what she worries about as each challenge was sent to her."