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This Lullaby
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Sarah Dessen
Manufacturer: Viking Juvenile
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Average Rating: 4.5
Total Customer Reviews: 220
List Price: $16.99
Our Price: $11.55
Sales Rank: 523544
Product Description
Remy always knows the perfect time to give a boyfriend "The Speech" telling him it's over-after the initial romantic whirl, but before the reality of an actual relationship hits. Her friends tease that her boyfriend tally is nearing the triple digit mark, but she's a girl who knows just how to avoid any messy emotional entanglement. After all, she's had the example of her five-times-married mother to show her what not to do.
So what, then, is it about Dexter that makes it so hard for her to follow her own rules? He's everything she hates: messy, disorganized, much too vulnerable, impulsive, and worst of all, a musician like her father: the father Remy never knew, the father who wrote a famous song for her, the father who disappeared from her life.
Sarah Dessen's most captivating novel yet introduces readers to a girl who believes her heart is made of stone-and the boy who proves her wrong.
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Product Review Summary: This Lullaby I'm a 13 year old girl who has just discovered the wonderful world of Sarah Dessen books. This one was my 2nd, and my 1st was Keeping the Moon. I loved both of them, but I did like This Lullaby more. I read this book while on the beach, and it was a great beach read.
This Lullaby is about Remy, an eager teenager ready to go off to college. She throws herself into planning yet another wedding for her mom. This time her mom is marrying a car dealership owner. While at the dealership one day waiting for her future step dad to be able to talk with her about the wedding, she meets Dexter. Dexter is a singer/head of a band called Truth Squad. They slowly begin to date. Remy has always believed true love didn't exist, so she has systemically dumped all of her other boyfriends. There is always an equation she uses, and at the right point, stops the relationship. But with Dexter, things are different. Their relationship doesn't fit the equation. Remy now wonders if this is really true love.
I would highly recommend this book for anyone ages 12 and up, just because someone under that age might not understand it.
Product Review Summary: For a Sarah Dessen book...I was extremely disappointed... I've read many of Sarah Dessen's books, but this book just could not hold my attention. Remy's attitude may have done it for me, or maybe I didn't feel like the plot picked up quickly enough.
I didn't finish the book, but I read about half way before calling it quits. It's very rare that I put down a book, much less quit reading it all together, so I was rather shocked. I didn't think that this book was anything like the rest of her books - Along for the Ride, Just Listen, Lock and Key, etc. - so maybe that's why I found myself disappointed. I'm honestly not sure.
I think that things with Remy and Dexter kind of happened too fast without much explanation, and also that a lot of what happened was extremely predictable. Overall, I just feel like Sarah Dessen left many holes in the plot, or lack there of one...but then again, maybe it's just me.
Product Review Summary: Dessen's best book "This Lullaby" is a pleasant, funny read from Sarah Dessen, who strays away from her regular shy-type heroine to a bold, snarky one in this installment. Remy is a recent high school graduate who holds strong views on love and dating thanks to her eccentric mother's multiple failed marriages. One was to her own father, a musician whom Remy has never met, but whose one-hit wonder continues to affect her to this day.
With a strict set of rules on who and how to date, Remy does not expect to ever go out with Dexter, the opposite of everything in Remy's perfect, meticulous laundry-list of characteristics a guy should have. Yet, that is the first exception she makes of many, as she discovers that letting go and just going with the flow can be the best thing a person could do. Characters like Lisa, Chloe and Jessie, along with the members of Dexter's band, have their own amusing subplots of teens/adults dealing with post-high school life and the real world.
This book is too fanstastic to spoil; but I recommend anyone with a sense of humor, including teens and people who remember just how horrible and wonderful the late teen years could be.
Product Review Summary: Realistic writing Once again i found myself in love with Dessens story plot and characters. THIS LULLABY is a realistic story of a small town, tough, rough, and a little rocky girl named Remy who has a mother who, well, lives in her own little world, and a dead father who's only legacy was a song called This lullaby. Remys mother is on her FITH husband, witch of course would mean Remy is a little antilove. Remy has boyfriends yes, but whenever it got too serious, she'd kick 'em to the curve.
When a slob of a mess band member named Dexter shows up, Remy's not so intristed. But as time goes on she begins to feel the prickle of something more. Remy is now faced with the life she vowed never to live. The life of love. As time goes on, what choices will she have to make? and with what price?
At first this book is a little slow. I found myself bored. But it was all worth it. After a while, i found that i couldent put it down. Dessens This Lullaby is like life itself, sometimes you have to wait for good things to happen.
Product Review Summary: Amazing. Strong plot, strong characters! This Lullaby is about a girl named Remy who thinks she knows everything. She's got it all figured out, you know, this relationship stuff. She works with a timeline and she cycles through guys. She thinks her method is keeping her safe from heartbreak and with a mother like her's who's on her fifth marriage (after Remy's dad died who wrote and dedicated "This Lullaby" to her), can you really blame the girl? Her and her brother Chris use to be a team, they thought the same way about all this love-marriage-love crap but then he met his girlfriend and he started to change and Remy didn't like it (I think it was mentioned that she was named after the drink Remy Martin and I thought it was cool cause that's my favorite -- and only favorite -- drink lol).
While waiting for Don, her soon-to-be fifth step-father to discuss wedding plans she (literally) runs into Dexter. Who is everything she's not looking for in a boyfriend. But he's persistent (and I love persistence in my books) and eventually she warms up to him. Everything after that would be a spoiler :).
I love this book. If it wasn't obvious already. I love how strong the characters were, their personalities were strong and while you were reading Remy's mom's novel, it felt like Remy was in the room reading it with you. The plot was strong and it had a lot of unexpected turns. I didn't feel like there was enough scenes with Remy's mom, but I did love the times where there were scenes of her mom. I loved how adorable Dexter's character was. He wasn't perfect or swoon worthy but I loved how sweet he was to Remy all the time even when she obviously made it clear she wanted nothing to do with him. And it made me kind of mad how mean she was to him but I loved how he just kept coming back. I loved the panic in Remy as soon as she started to notice the change and I loved the girl talks between her and her friends.
If you haven't already read this book, I highly suggest you do!
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