Rating: 4 StarsOkay, so this was actually WAY better than how it started off from, but the reason it doesn't have 5 stars is because of these reasons:1. My Life Next Door put my hopes really high on this book because I absolutely adored MLND2. I couldn't relate to the main character (funny thing is, her description physically is EXACTLY like me, except I'm WAYYYY shorter)Other then that, it was really good! Clearly Huntley Fitzpatrick has been influenced by Sara Dessen. The story seems straight out of a Dessen novel, but lacks the finesse that Sara Dessen has. The story is the same ol' same ol'. Girl and boy have a misunderstanding but end up together in the end (um, spoiler alert I guess?). The way the story goes about getting to that end seems overly long and frustrating at times. There are aspects to the story that I didn't particularly like. Gwen's father disgusted me. He gives Gwen some pretty terrible advice at the beginning of the book that Gwen only thinks about once. She eventually brings it up with him at the end but there's never really a resolution between the two of them. She doesn't stand up to him and tell him why his advice was terrible or how telling a teenage boy to "man up" is not great or how it's pretty freaking obvious that he doesn't love or care about his disabled son. I didn't get why the story about Gwen's Vovo (grandmother) was haphazardly thrown into the plot. It didn't really add anything to the narrative. Overall it's not a terrible read. Great for a beach read, but ultimately not anything that I can't get from better books.
What do You think about What I Thought Was True (2014)?
It was a good book and I enjoyed it, but not THAT much..
—Anastasia
