Better Than the Movies

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Everyone began taking notes on their school-issued laptops, and Colton Sparks gave me a chin nod from his desk in the corner.

Wes was the kid who put a frog in her Barbie Dreamhouse, the monster who hid a lawn gnome's severed head in her little homemade neighborhood book exchange.Parents need to know that Lynn Painter's Better Than the Movies is a sweet teen romance and a fun tribute to the romcom genre. This childhood trauma sets off a domino effect that sets off the way she reacts and interacts with other supporting characters in the book.

Because even though the senior activities were fun, without my mom they were void of sentimentality. Harry (Jared Leto) leads his pack of neighborhood addicts as they fight, hustle, and do all sorts of other despicable things to support their growing habits. Teen characters make joking references to sexual activity that isn't actually taking place, such as grinding, banging, and boot-knocking.He must’ve sensed a stalker in his midst, because the slo-mo stopped, the birds disappeared, and he looked right at me. When I finally made it to school after scraping my windshield with a razor blade and doing hard-core deep breathing to reclaim my zen, I entered the building with the Bridget Jones’s Diary soundtrack playing through my headphones. The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbour might seem like a prime candidate for romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz's butt since they were kids. But noticing that Wes isn’t the annoying “bad boy” she had always thought he was was definitely not part of her plan. It wasn’t about friends grabbing dinner at the Cheesecake Factory before heading up to the high school for awkward conversation while the coupled-off couples found their way to the infamous grinding wall.

That was until Lynn, the author, swooped in like a hero and granted my birthday wish—and as soon as my most anticipated book (of, like, seven months! On my award-winning book blog, you can find a range of reviews of YA to Adult books and all the topics in-between.Distracting Liz is the fact that her childhood crush Michael has moved back to town after moving away some years ago, when they were still quite young. Expect lots of references to popular romcom films, songs, and musicians (the songs on Wes and Liz's soundtrack are listed at the end of the book).