One Night That Changes Everything by Lauren BarnholdtAuthor: Lauren Barnholdt
Date Released: July 6th 2010
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Pages: 288 pages
Format: Hardcover
Source: Borders
Summary
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.
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.
My Review:
She isn’t going down without a fight- and how true this is, I think its what I most liked about the story, how Eliza Is so strong, independent and at times hilarious, of course, she has her moments of weakness, where she feels everything is crumbling down. But she is just a simple mortal.
I literary pulled an all-nighter with this one, started at 10 pm, finished at 5 in the morning. The story cover Eliza’s whole night and all the fears she has to face. I loved how every fear is so different from each other, a few of them had me cracking up and other had me hanging from my seat, even though the story was a little predictable, It didn’t made me enjoy it any less. Through Eliza’s night, you do not only get to know her fears, but you also get to know Cooper, Cooper is… I don’t know, the whole first half of the book I hated him, then he started to win me over, and I ended up loving him, that’s Cooper.
A quick and fun book, with some depth, and you’ll be able to relate to Eliza in many ways. The perfect Summer read. Actually, the perfect read for any time.
"The problem with YOU is that you don't take the RESPONSIBILITY for anything, You think you can just run around, doing whatever you want to whoever you want, and that it's going to be fine. That everything is just going to be TAKE CARE of for you, with no consequences."
"No. I don't, and I have had consequences from what happened with me and you."
"Yeah? Like what?"
"I lost you, that was my consequence"
Epic
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