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Title | : | This Is What I Want to Tell You |
Author | : | Heather Duffy Stone |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 233 pages |
Published | : | March 8th 2009 by Flux (first published March 1st 2009) |
Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Realistic Fiction. Romance. Fiction. Teen. Novels |

Heather Duffy Stone
Paperback | Pages: 233 pages Rating: 3.53 | 685 Users | 73 Reviews
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Friendship,love,and unexpected secretsNadio and his twin sister, Noelle, always had a unique bond. And somehow, Keeley Shipley fit perfectly into their world. But when Keeley spends the summer in England, she comes home changed, haunted by a dark memory. As she and Nadio fall in love, they try to hide it from Noelle, who's jealously guarding a secret of her own. Slowly, a life-long friendship begins to crack under the crushing weight of past trauma, guarded secrets, jealousy, obsession . . . and an unexpected love that could destroy them.
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Original Title: | This Is What I Want to Tell You |
ISBN: | 073871450X (ISBN13: 9780738714509) |
Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.53 From 685 Users | 73 ReviewsCrit Based On Books This Is What I Want to Tell You
I really wanted to like this one, but I felt like it was lots of style but even more cliché. Not entirely comfortable with how the sexual assault was handled either.Also for being two sides of the same story, why did it basically sound like one big story, just hearing two POVs that basically supported the same facts? One twin said Keeley was different depending; Keeley seemed pretty much the same to me regardless. God, if you're going to use this style at least give me some unreliable narrationReading this reminded me a bit of Francesca Lia Block's The Hanged Man, minus the magical elements. Stone explores how relationships change because of jealousy, secrets, and just plain growing up in easy-to-read prose. Something dark tints everything as the plot unfolds and the characters present their version of Junior Year. Decisions about sex are explicit in the book, but I liked the way Stone made these momentous choices more about the way physicality changes - or doesn't change - the
Cross-posted from my blog review .Woo, long review. Skip first three paragraphs (not counting this one) if you don't want a detailed description. Nadio and Noelle are twins, but when it comes to their friend Keeley, the trio are more like triplets--inseparable since forever. But then Keeley goes to Oxford with her parents for an entire summer and for some reason, everything between the three changes. Noelle wants nothing to do with Keeley and even though they promised each other they'd talk

Quick young adult read. Engaging and hard to put down. A little confusing with the lack of quotations when characters were speaking.
This is one of those novels that, when I was finished, I wanted to hold it close and savor the little door it had opened for me. It's one of those books that makes me want to wait a long while before I open up another book because I don't want to lose the glow from this one. Some time back, I read a book called All Rivers Flow to the Sea by Alison McGhee and I felt the same way. That book has lodged itself deep inside me and THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO TELL YOU is doing the same thing.I don't know
There have always been the three Noelle, Nadia, and Kelley. Although, everything changes when Kelley leaves for a summer to go to England. Shortly after departure Noelle and Nadia find themselves drifting apart, and when Kelley returns she finds that not only has the scenery changes but so have the people. This is what I want to tell you, is told in alternating characters throughout the book. With the assistance of letters that Nadia is writing to his MIA father that has never been a part of his
Heather Duffy Stones Debut book is a mixture of both first loves and first heartbreak. When Noelles twin brother, Nadio, ends up dating Noelles best friend, Keeley. Each keeps their own secrets making falling in love destructive and painful.When Noelle dives head first into a relationship with an older boy she is blinded by the consequences and the destructive pull of such an affair. Both Keeley and Nadio fail to share their relationship with Noelle and as a result pushes them further and
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