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Summary: I only put the book down to say, "OHMYGOD!!"
Review: Yes, "Second Helpings" is a teen angst book. And, yes, the "teen angst" category is quickly growing old. "Second Helpings", though, is a refreshing burst of youth to the old category. It is intelligent, funny, insightful, and realistic. Jessica Darling is someone to whom any reader can relate. Jessica will surprise you in this book...it turns out that she's not as straight-edge as one would expect...Although I laughed more often at "Sloppy Firsts," the events that took place in "Second Helpings" were more WOW and wonderful to read about. This book is a must read! (But remember it's a sequel, read "Sloppy Firsts" first.)
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Summary: One of the Greatest
Review: When I found out that Megan McCafferty had written a sequel to her novel "Sloppy Firsts", I went out the next day and bough "Second Helpings". This book is such a great work. I enjoyed every minute of the book. I couldn't put it down. I laughed, I cried, I went through all emotions. I literally went through what the characters were going through. Jessica is everything we are, but are afraid to be. Marcus is the guy we love to hate, yeah know we really do love him. Just read the book, and I gurantee you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Her. Yes. Her.
Review: In the sequal in Sloppy Firsts, Jessica gets a crush on a teacher at SPECIAL, dates the suddently handsome Len Levy, searches for a college, meets Paul Parilipiano and Hy again, and generally matures.Jessica runs into Paul, her former "crush to end all crushs" in New York, who manages to convince her Columbia college is for her. And she's surprised by the people she thought she knew so well again- like Bridget, Pepe, Marcus. While I thought this book was a great sequal to Sloppy Firsts, I found there were a lot of predictable bits and some dissapointing ones (like Len becoming hot, jessica's reaction to Manda at the pre-prom party...) but if you're wondering if this sequal will spoil the first book, the answer in so indeed.
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Summary: This book is worth more than 5 stars...
Review: "Second Helpings" exceeds the original ("Sloppy Firsts"). It's quite possibly one of the greatest (teen) novels ever written and I strongly suggest it for anyone who is/was a teenager, mainly because it's so relateable (or at least for me, since I'm in high school). When I read it, I felt like I was reading pages from my own journal. 'Nuff said.
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Summary: Second Helpings: The Essential Summer Novel
Review: Ms. McCafferty has so eloquently captured the spirit of today's youth in her novel SECOND HELPINGS. The wit, charm, and believeablity of Jess Darling and the other characters of Pineville allow readers to feel they are reading about their own town, yet Ms. McCafferty so brillantly writes in way which keeps you reading-- even though the material is familiar. The book is truly the essential summer novel for not only all high school students, but all people who want to laugh, vent, and relate to their high school days.
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Summary: Second Helpings is WAY BETTER!
Review: Second Helpings was such a great book. Out of all the books I've read that are diary formatted and deal with the same age group, Megan McCafferty did the best job relating it to teens this day in age. Sure some of the character's personalities seem a bit exaggerated a some points, but when you get down to it, you know a person like every character in the book. You have your jocks, you're insecure people, nerds, druggies and just regular people! This book will make you smile, and get so involved in Jessica's life you'll feel like she's your best friend!
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Summary: The first book was sooo great
Review: The first book was so wonderful that I laughed probably for most of the chapters. The author captures the real teen spirit and makes the book understandable. She doesn't try to go above readers heads and make it so you can't understand. I think Jessie is in a way like me and in a way like all teenagers. I wish there could be about a million more books like Sloppy firsts and Second Helpings because I would enjoy all of them.
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Summary: Terrific
Review: I loved Second Helpings, and it's been years since I was in high school. It's a great story, very funny. The action in the novel takes place from July 2001-June 2002 in New Jersey high school student Jessica Darling's life. She spends part of her summer at writing camp, and then comes home to deal with the trials and tribulations of modern high school life and her senior year--college selection, boyfriends, mad crushes, friends, enemies. The novel takes the form of Jessica's diary, so we are privy to her innermost thoughts--many of which concern Marcus--an obsession that has followed her around since we last saw Jessica in Sloppy Firsts. Jessica is a great narrator--funny, sarcastic, poignant, heartbreaking, and even at times infuriating. This is a terrific novel and you certainly don't have to read Sloppy Firsts to enjoy it, but read Sloppy Firsts first--it is an excellent novel, just as strong as this one. I think anyone would enjoy this novel--it certainly does not need to be limited to the young adult crowd. Enjoy.
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Summary: Read this comment, and see if you don't agree!
Review: I LOVED THIS BOOK! It was better than the first! The whole gang is back, even Paul. Some of the characters are so lovable, like Pepe and MARCUS. I'm gald we get to see Hope, and Hope with Jessica, because I was getting to think that Jessica was exaggerating Hope's greatness. I LOVE HOPE for what she did. And I'm glad Hy made an appearance, I always knew she wasn't so bad! Other characters are not so lovable, like Brittany and Scotty. For those Marcus fans out there, you will die of happiness. I think that out of all the books I've read, I would choose Marcus to be my boyfriend because he is incredibly sexy and smart and tall and clever and sweet and... The way that MacCafferty/Jessica describes him literally made me hug the book, because that is as close as I will ever get to hugging him! I love him for Jessica, but I would really love him for myself! After I finished the book, I was thinking, maybe I should change my personality, so that I can try to get a guy like Marcus, cause I'm afraid I'm not his type. Or maybe its just that Jess is so perfect for him that in comparison I suck. I REALLY hope that there is a 3rd book. I bet that Marcus would write awesome letters to Jessica that would be very fun and hopefully sexy to read! But I'm afraid that Megan won't write another book about Jessica because a) she mentioned writing another book at the end and b) she also mentioned sucky second syndrome, which makes me think that she (understandably)lives in fear of writing bad sequels. AND here is my last opinion. I think these books, especially the second one, would make great movies. More so than Angus, Sisterhood, Gossip Girl would be as movies. READ THIS BOOK! IT'S GREAT! I LOVE MARCUS!
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Summary: Kicks the first to the curb - and the first was superb!
Review: This is the best work of teen fiction I've ever read. Period.
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