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Summary: The Best Damn Book
Review: I am in no way a bookworm. To me, living vicariously through novels always seemed stupid. Lately, however, I started to read the typical teenage novels (books by Meg Cabot, etc.)and was getting bored with the whole fairy tale aspect of them all. That is, until I picked up "Sloppy Firsts."
"Second Helpings" is the sequel to that wonderful book. It follows the life of Jessica Darling, a typical teenager. Let me just clarify something about this book: IT IS THE BEST! It is the only book (other than "Sloppy Firsts") that actually seems like a real teenager wrote it. If you could jump into my brain, you would be able to see that my thoughts are pretty much exactly the same as Jessica's (I'm a 16-year-old girl). I just love this book. Plain and simple: I love it. I stayed up all night to read that book the night I first bought it. I'm afraid that if I read it any more I might get obsessed (okay, that was a lame attempt at humor, but whatever, you're laughing on the inside).You should definetly read this book. You go through the whole thing thinking "What's going on with Marcus?" and you'll just love the end. This is definitely one of the coming-of-age novels that inspires us all to be just like the protagonist.
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Summary: absolutely amazing
Review: I've never related to a book like i did to this one. I found it so truthful and relatable the I started a list of all of Jessica's quotes that I could relate to and ended up with 4 pages. Jessica Darling is a true character that all teenage girls can relate to. Megan McCafferty is an amazing author and I only with that she would write another follow-up about Jessica. One thing is for sure, this book is a must-read for any teenage girl and McCafferty definitely didn't fall under the "sequels suck" misconception.
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Summary: Even Better than the first !
Review: Most sequels just gets boring but I love this one. Compliments the first book , I hope the writer writes a third.
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Summary: Writer that can connect with the reader
Review: A really good book absorbs you. It makes you feel as if the main character is your best friend. You smile when they're happy, cry when they're said, and want to go kick some butt when they're agry. I really good author can make a connection with the reader and make you feel emotion for the book. Megan McCafferty is a good writer. Megan makes connection through Jessica remiding you of your own teenage years and the dreaded wait to see what college you were accepted to. Megan's books, Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings, are perfect for teenage girls or adults remembering they're past.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: This is the best book I have ever read. I laughed, I cried, I couldn't put it down. The emotions in this are unbelievably genuine, and the characters incredibly well thought out. This book makes you feel like you've learned something about life, and makes you want to go out and live life to the fullest.
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Summary: This book will make you melt, literally.
Review: I left a birthday party early to finish this book...I know, I'm a horrible friend!!! I just had to know how this book ended...all I kept on saying to myself was "I need to go home right now and finish this book...I'll just tell them I have stomach problems...yeah, thats what I'll do!!" I'd like to see Megan McCafferty write a book about Marcus' journal...his thoughts...and how he viewed this whole thing (like what Orson Scott Card did with Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow...not a sequal...a parallel book, so to speak)...his perspective...his growth. His thoughts about Jessica. Would that be too much??? **thinking, thinking** nah, because while I was reading this book, I kept on asking myself what Marcus was thinking... READ THIS BOOK NOW. I was in a book store just walking around, when I saw these two colorful vibrant book covers screaming at me to be picked up. I stopped, decided to see what all the fuss was about...picked up Sloppy Firsts...read a few pages...AND I WAS HOOKED! I bought it, then Second Helpings (happens to be one of my favorite books now). Tricky, very tricky marketing strategy...only if more books screamed at me... I'm inspired to make my own personlized t-shirts... I'm motivated now to actually study and get myself a psychology degree...and stop taking meaningless classes...
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Summary: Jessica Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Who says sequels suck? Second Helpings is (in my opinion) a better book than Sloppy Firsts. In this book, Jessica deals with choosing colleges, crushes on homosexuals, crushes on nonhomosexuals, her sister's pregnancy
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Summary: OMIGOD OMIGOD OMIGOD
Review: this book is quote OMIGOD unquote amazing. This first book, Sloppy Firsts, was good also but the ending was almost unfinished. I just finished reading Secong Helpings today and the ending rocks! ... i'm not gonna tell u the ending!!! go get this book!!! when it ended i just wished mcCafferty had another book after this... im obsessed with this book and u will be too!!! MARCUS IS SOOOO COOOOOOOL!!!
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Summary: Amazing
Review: After the wonderful Sloppy Firsts, we were left yearning for our own Marcus Flutie, craving for him and Jessica Darling to be together. With this sequel, Megan McCafferty most certainly has not developed Sequel Syndrome. If possible, the sequel is even better then its predecessor. Second Helpings is incredibly witty, often times spurring bouts of laughter. McCafferty perfectly captures the essence of a brilliant teenager, like Jessica. The entire novel is indescribable. As close as I can get is simply this: phenomenal. The ending is pleasing, leaving you wondering, but satisfied. McCafferty has hit the jackpot with this one.
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Summary: How to do this ...
Review: I was going to summarize this book when I came down to the computer to write this review, but it's been out for almost a year now, and I doubt that it really needs any more explaining. So I'll just offer you a bit of insight on the characters and what I mostly wanted to know when I first read the reviews for this book. Jessica kind of matures a little bit more in this sequel. She realizes that people aren't how they seem, nor how you want them to be. And she continues to realize that life can often suck. For those of you that are fans of his, Marcus returns in this book, but he's kind of stand-offish, like he's trying to be Jessica's friend, if even that. For those of you that haven't read this yet, I'm going to be mean and tell you that he sets her up with a new boyfriend. But!!! Does anything happen between Marcus and Jess? I think it's obvious by now that she was kind of falling in love with him. But was he really starting to fall in love with her too?! Is it possible she can get over him? Gee...could you? I would write more about the other characters and their impact or whatever, but if you're like me, your brain will be stuck on this main theme. *Sigh* This is such a bitterweet book. Doesn't it suck that I'm not going to elaborate any more on that?
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