Julie BuxbaumTell Me Three Things

3 things3 peopleWho will it be?This book was so cute! There were 3 boys who it could have been her secret admirer and throughout the book we get to see what it would be like if it was one of those boys. I loved all 3 boys. But there is one special one who I was secretly rooting for throughout it in hopes it would be him! I hope you loved this as much as I did reading it. It was a quick read too because it was so lighthearted and funny. It had me laughing out loud too which is vital in books I think!

I really enjoyed this book. I read it In a few days as it was very easy to just pick up. This is a wonderful story of friendship, family and first loves. very relatable to us all for one reason or another. A great story of many of the characters developing themselves which helped keep me interested. I really liked how this book keeps you guessing and is a modern love story. I would recommend this book to teens and young adults for a light, fun read.

I don't usually read YA fiction and have been a vocal opponent to adults reading "kids" literature when they could be reading something more sophisticated; however, I have to eat my hat because "Tell Me Three Things" was absolutely fantastic. The writing was excellent and the story so engrossing that I could not put it down (literally- I read it over food, in the bath, on the underground). I am not a convert to YA fiction but I am definitely a convert to Julie Buxbaum!

I've read so many books in the last 2 months and this one has got to be part of my top 3 (others including all the bright places (really recommend) and the girl next door (once again, I really recommend)) such a fantastic storyline and the anticipation to find out who SN is is amazing. Shipped them from he start x fabulous book

I could not put this book down! I would reccomend this YA novel for any fans of john green, rainbow Rowell, Nicola yoon and the likes! It's a must read. You will fall in love with this story as I have.

Fabulous book to read with your teenage daughter. We really enjoyed it.

Great book, worth a read!

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum4.5 stars!!!“In the Venn diagram of my life, my imagined personality and my real personality have never converged. Over email and text, though, I am given those few additional beats I need to be the better, edited version of myself. To be that girl in the glorious intersection.”I love a good YA, despite my forty-two years of age. When a YA is done well, age is just a number and the story has the capacity to transport you back to your teens and this is what Julie Buxbaum did. This book was the perfect balance of emotion, banter and wit and with poetic prose that keeps those pages turning you will find yourself turning the last page before you know it or want it.“Maybe home doesn’t have to be a place.”Jessie’s mother died two years ago, she thought that was the worst of it, but her father drops a doozie, he has eloped, got married and now they need to pack their bags and move to Chicago to move into the home of her step-mother and her son. Leaving the home she loves and her friends behind Jessie is despondent especially when she sees what a far cry from her norm her step-mothers home really is.“One of the worst parts about someone dying is thinking back to all those times you didn’t ask the right questions, all those times you stupidly assumed you’d have all the time in the world. And this too: how all that time feels like not much time at all. What’s left feels like something manufactured. The overexposed ghosts of memories.”With a mansion, a fancy private school, a pain in the arse step brother and a step mother that just keeps trying Jessie feels like one tiny little fish in an ocean of posh, entitled sharks. Jessie struggles to fit in at school, friendship dynamics that have been born since birth and social standing are hard to infiltrate and with cliques as tight as theirs Jessie was fighting a losing battle. The new girl is the easy target.“Welcome. To. The. Jungle.”Fresh blood in school means new eye candy and it isn’t long before Jessie captures unwanted attention, but it seems she has found an ally, if only she knew who it was. “Somebody Nobody” is her intel, a friend who wishes to remain anonymous and gives Jessie the lay of the land, who to trust and who to befriend. They soon become fast friends communicating only through words, but it is these words that Jessie becomes reliant upon and the more they communicate the more she wants to know who it is.“Perfect days are for people with small, realizable dreams. Or maybe for all of us, they just happen in retrospect; they’re only now perfect because they contain something irrevocably and irretrievably lost.”This was a fantastic read, I adored everything about it and while I “knew” who “Somebody Nobody” was I wasn’t really, truly sure until the reveal happened. You know who want it to be, but the thought of it not being them was heart breaking.“He’s more like me, I think: burdened with the realization that what goes on in his mind is somehow different from what goes on in everyone else’s. Even those closest to us.”Julie Buxbaum perfectly navigates school life and that constant ache to fit in, to be somebody, to be seen for who you really are, not what people want to see. The difficulties of life after death on both child and lone parent and the impact moving on really has. But most of all it was about friendships, the companionships, the highs and lows and finally about love. Getting to know that someone so deeply, without a face, without an image, to sway perceptions…know the person first. Adored it!!“Tell me three things…”