You Only Live Once by Bridie Clark


You Only Live Once
Title : You Only Live Once
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ISBN : 1596438177
ISBN-10 : 9781596438170
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 224
Publication : First published April 15, 2014

You survived your freshman year at Kings Academy, the prestigious prep school in the New Hampshire hills, but hold the slow clap—turns out sophomore year’s the real grinder. You’ll have to deal with the stress of keeping up with the soul-crushing homework. Not to mention your glam classmates are throwing glitzy sweet sixteen parties this year and you’ll need a job if you want to join.

Will you take that babysitting job in town (and pretend not to notice Hot Dad’s flirtatious ways)? Will you bribe your way to a New York Times internship and land a college guy? Filled to the brim with twisting paths and turns, this may end up being the best year of your life . . . or it may send you home to Hope Falls in tears. Whatever snap decisions you make, it’s going to be an unforgettable year.

You Only Live Once Reviews

  • Carmen

    This book is SO boring. So boring. It lacks even the little bit of spark that infused its predecessor,
    Maybe Tonight?.

    So boring.

    And I can't get over how much and how casually all these 15-year-olds drink! Not even in secret, they get served alcohol in restaurants and bars and I'm like, "Hello? Carding? The law? Hello?" I mean, WTF. And it's so, so, so casual like the 15-year-old is saying, "I could use a glass of wine. Or even a whole bottle." And that's not even questioned or commented on.

    Actually, as I've said before, this book is EXACTLY like reading about 21/22-year-olds. Clark isn't making an attempt to even WRITE about high school students - she's simply writing characters in their early 20s and putting them in 14 and 15-year-old bodies. It's completely ridiculous. No one has any kind of normal or realistic teenage thoughts, reactions, or problems. It's about 22-year-olds, really.

    Skip this. Complete waste of time.

  • Holly Letson

    1.5*

    Not real impressed. So, my so-called "friends", who hated me at the end of
    Maybe Tonight? for turning them in are suddenly my "besties" again now?!? Yeah, riiiiiiight!

  • Ms. P

    I very rarely abandon books, but I just could not go on with this one. There is really nothing appealing about this book. I hated the choose-your-own-adventure structure. I hated that it was written in second person (so annoying!). I hated the main character and her shallowness: she only cared about boys, clothes, which party she should go to, and hoping against hope that no one at her snobby private school would figure out that she was a middle-class scholarship student. I also hated that all the 15-year-olds acted like they were college students, drinking and traveling around the city alone to this party or that designer store or mall. Ugh ugh ugh.

  • Amy Fournier

    Review coming soon.

  • Birdie

    I always get a non-ending on my first read-through, and so does Brayden. It takes a few goes before you actually get a satisfying ending.