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Summary: Dessen does it again
Review: I don't think anyone can deny it. Sarah Dessen's writing is one of the greatest contributions to teen literature you could find! I absolutely loved "This Lullaby" and I think Dessen gets better and better with every book. The characters in this story (mainly Remy and Dexter) are so well developed and I loved reading things from Remy's point of view, she is such an original character. Anyways to the actual book,Remy has just graduated and been accepted into Stanford University. She cant wait to get away but first she has to tie up all the loose ends in her life. Like her mothers wedding that she's planning and dumping her current boyfriend Jonathan, which shouldn't be too hard because Remy doesn't believe in love. Maybe it's because all she has to remember her father by is a song with the painfully true line "I will let you down" or the fact she's watched her mother fall in love, get married and fall out of love four times. No matter the reason Remy has her own rules when it comes to love: when they get to close, get rid of them. Oh, and no musicians. Then one day Remy literally bumps into a guy named Dexter, when she is visiting her step father To Be. Remy is very annoyed and acts cold towards him, but Dexter doesn't notice and he gives her his number. After that they continue to meet in unlikely places. Then to everyone's surprise (including her brother Chris and three best friends Jess, Lissa and Chloe) Remy falls for the charming Dexter. I mean for god sake he is a musician! Why is it that Remy is breaking her own rules for some guy? As Remy struggles to acknowledge that the reason is love, we watch her change in many ways and see her open up to real lurve for the first time. This book isn't just your typical romance novel, there is something more to it and I recommend it to any girl over 13. It is totally awesome and truthful, I loved it!
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Summary: live for today
Review: i feel like this book shows girls like me a way to love agian. having a guy break your heart from time to time or just not believing in love can make you depressed. this book opened up my eyes and made me realize to love. let people in your life. love life! live for not yesterday or tomorrow but for today!!!
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Summary: Nothing can compare
Review: I love this book, THis Lullaby is my favorite Sarah Dessen Book ever. I just love the way Remy is and pretty much just everything the book has to say, read this I highly suggest it to anyone who loves Sarah Dessen Novels.
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Summary: Best Book in a long time
Review: I read This Lullaby during a hard time in my life. In a sense it helped me get through it, knowing that people have problems like myself and still get through them. It is a great book with great meaning and a great passage in it. There's no doubt in my mind that it should be a best seller. Sarah Dessen did a phenomenal job on this amazing book. 5 starts all the way!
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Summary: typical teenager
Review: i thought that this book was okay but highly unoriginial. the girl was a slut, and a loser and i guess just your average teenager today this book lacked an interesting plot
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Summary: Great...
Review: i tried reading this once before, but i couldn't get into it. After reading Dessens: The Truth About Forever, i decided to give This Lullaby another try. I'll admit i had to get to page 50 before i couldn't put it down. Once i got past one point, it was the best. You can't help falling in love with Dexter, who's witty comments will make you smile. Great book.
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Summary: High Recommendation
Review: If put down in a nutshell, the plot of this book might sound uninteresting, cliche, or something equally bad. However, I have read other books by Sarah Dessen as well, and this is by far the best. And not only is it the best of her books, it's also one of the best teen novels I've read in a long time. THIS LULLABY is the story of a girl who has grown up with a mother who takes on husbands "the way other people change their hair color: out of boredom, listlessness, or just feeling that this next one will fix everything, once and for all." Remy never knew her own father even, and all she has of him is the song, "This Lullaby," that he wrote one the road the day of her birth. By the time she graduates from high school Remy has developed a careful schedual for all relationships she enters in to, and never allows any boy to get close to her heart, convinced that it is better to keep all guys at arms length so that they are unable to hurt her. Then, while planning her mother's fifth wedding, Remy meets Dexter, a boy who has so many qualities she dislikes. Though at first reluctant, Remy is eventually charmed by Dexter, who's shoelaces are always untied, and who insists on challenging people to do things such as eat ten bananas, or name more states than him before a specific lady is through picking up her dry-cleaning. Remy still believes that love is foolish, but Dexter helps her to learn otherwise. As I said, the plot sounds quite cliche. However, it's a lot more complicated than all that, the writing is superb, the dialouge is at times very witty and entertaining, and this is an all around enjoyable book. I was completely engrossed, and reluctant to put it down even when I was in desperate need of something to eat. Towards the end I felt as though I couldn't read fast enough, and I felt a kind of ache in my chest because I was so drawn into the story. Definitely one of the best books I've read in the past year. Recommended for readers ages 13+, mainly because some of the language may be inappropriate for those who are younger and more innocent.
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Summary: A whole new look on Love.
Review: if u are one or those people that have been in love once or twice before, but have had your heart broken and shattered into pieces by the one who said they never would, if you've never bought into all that "finding your soul mate" mumbo-jumbo. or "everlasting love." as they call it. or if you've watched too many people's marriages destroyed too many times...you must read this book. because before this book i was a believer of all three, but after i'd read this, the message became so irradescently clear:you can build a sheild of steal around your heart, you can distance yourself from the world, and vow not to let anyone get too close. you can run from your feelings as much as you want...but when the time is right;true love will find you. The hard-stone cold "(...)" character Remy always tolf herself she'd never fall in love, and end up like her mother whom was entering her fifth marriage the summer before Remy went off to college. Remy planned to chill out at the spot with her friends, catch a few parties at Brendo's, and hook-up with a hottie for a brief summer fling:no attachments, no extra baggage.simple easy. but what she didnt plan was meeting the one person that could change her life, and re-emerge the faith in love that she'd misplaced, and now she is traped between two solid walls where love is waiting just around the corner....amazingly, fantastic, job well done.
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Summary: This Lullaby
Review: If you had read any other Sarah Dessen books you might have noticed that they focus around similar themes and topics. I can guarantee that This Lullaby will not disappoint you; whether you're familiar with her writing or not. Personally, I enjoyed this book. What was so great about it was Remy, the main character's, view on life. She had a very negative outlook on love and relationships. In a sense she believed that love had given up and no longer would be able to exist in her life, but she was wrong and eventually learned that.
The novel's theme was proven in so many levels through many minor characters and of course the main. First of all, I believed the theme was never give up on love because it won't give up on you. It was nicely stated in the book as misplacing love not losing it. At first it seems as though the author is trying to prove the accuracy of Remy's, negative attitude about relationships then suddenly, a conflict is created to contradict it. The long and complicated process of proving the theme explains the complexity of love.
Not to tell the whole story, I'll just end this by saying that it doesn't end in a way that you might predicted. The incalculable ending only helps you grasp more of the story and relate it to your own life. I highly recommend anyone to read this book especially young-adults and teens. Hopefully, after reading this novel you'll learn something important lessons about life and grow as a person.
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Summary: Dessen Does It Again!
Review: If you haven't read any of Sarah Dessen's previous novels then you're in for a real treat. In "This Lullaby" the main character, Remy, has completely given up on love and all of its aspects. She even has a formula, if you will, that she uses to dump her boyfriends.
The novel starts with Remy planning her famous mother's fifth wedding. Her mother, Barbara Starr, romance novelist extraordinaire, hasn't been able to get any of her previous marriages to work but has high hopes for this one to Don, owner of a local Toyota dealership. And Remy introduces "This Lullaby", the popular song written for her by her biological father, which is still played by local musicians today.
Remy has just graduated from high school and is going to attend Stanford in the fall. In order to leave "without any attachments", Remy carefully plans to dump her current boyfriend, Jonothan, so she can accomplish her goals this summer-leaving her home and starting a new life on the west coast with no ties to her past.
Her friends, Chloe, Lissa, and Jess, support her and her pessimism about love until she encounters one boy that throws off her carefully structured world. Sarah Dessen is brilliant in her newest novel. Her witty style and sense of humor are prominent once again. This is a great summer read for anyone who enjoys a good laugh and a great story full of twists and turns with a stunning conclusion.
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