{Review}Going Vintage by Lindsey Leavitt

Publication date: March 26, 2013

Publisher: Bloomsbury

ISBN-13: 9781599907871

Synopsis

Mallory has been a victim of the online social networks, her boyfriend cheated on her with another girl online. While trying to get her ideas straight and really take a second to process what happened Mallory stumbles into an old list on her grandmother’s house, a list that was made when her grandmother was her age. The list goes:

1.       Run for pep club secretary

2.       Host a fancy dinner party/soiree

3.      Sew a dress for Homecoming

4.      Find a steady

5.      Do something dangerous

Taking the list as inspiration Mallory swears technology off and makes completing the list her main focus.

No one said completing the list would be easy or that family problems would choose this time to catch up with her, but she will try and probe that going vintage is worth the price.

Review

The way Lindsey Leavitt wrote this book made me feel like I was breezing through it, like a lazy fresh summer afternoon where you don’t what that moment or that fresh feeling to end.

I believe that Lindsey could have made the emotional cheating look more series, it is a way of cheating and people do get hurt. Yet I can’t seemed to take it seriously on the book at first it felt too juvenile.

I may not have always loved the characters on this book, but I understood their action and why the made the decision they made. So even if things didn’t go the way I wanted it didn’t make it seemed like it was the author denying something but a choice that the characters where bound to make because of who they are.

 If you are looking for a book 100% contemporary then don’t pic up this book, when you want something contemporary with unrealistic elements (I’m not talking Urban Fantasy here guys) with a sweet and funny moments and a splash of growing up then I really suggest you read this book.

Now I didn’t mean the “unrealistic elements” as an attack or anything, you see there is something in the mix that takes some of the realism out of this book and gives a feel of high schools on teenage movies. I just don’t want you to go in with false expectations and if this is what you are looking for then I do think you are going to have a nice time.

Rating:

3.5 broken TV’s