So, essentially I was screaming at Noah something along the lines of. This kind of drama I can get listening to my teenagers at home. Well, I'd like to say the years were good for her, that she grew up and realized that Noah was her soul mate and quit breaking his damn heart.that would be a NEGATIVE! Every stinking time the reader would think something good would happen, DRAMA! Someone walks in, a phone rings, a chick walks up to him.blah blah. He had the patience of Job for a kid, lemme tell ya. It drove me nuts! Noah was so in love with this girl, would do ANYTHING for her and she yo-yo'ed him back and forth. Amanda didn't want him, but damn it if he looked the other way at someone else. So essentially a quarter or more of the book is these KIDS (15) playing this cat and mouse game. She's not willing to risk his friendship for a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship that's doomed to fail- he deserves so much better than HER. Surely their relationship will fail and she'll lose her best friend.

She refuses to reduce Noah to having to love her. She's never measured up to her older sister and feels a failure at almost everything life presents to her. Now, the gist of it is that Amanda has ZERO self esteem. When at about age 15, they start to realize this attachment is more than just friendship. Their parents are friends, growing up together and always inseperable. *Deep breath, chug of wine, here I go.*Īmanda and Noah have been soul mates since basically birth. So, a synopsis of the story is as may contain some mild spoilers but these are why it drove me BATSHIT CRAZY.the storyline in its entirety. Seriously people, not ONE scenario in this book went with emotional ease until the very last five or so pages. Notice the warning with this book! Did anyone warn Allison (that's me).Oh, hell to the no! One word for this book.Įxtreme, never-ending drama, angst, and emotional torture! Am I being a bit melodramatic? Maybe- the book's rubbed off on me.

For all the pain and suffering I endured with this book, it deserves my following rant review!! If you take one look at my status updates, you're probably wondering WHY I didn't DNF this book! Why, you say? Because I don't post full reviews on dnf's nor do I rate them. I thought I'd be ahead of the game for once and dive in (into shallow water head first, that is).

I chose to read this because the book was all over my feeds.

Present Perfect by Alison G. Bailey