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In this long-anticipated companion novel to the Printz Honor Book Hard Love, which critics called "A bittersweet tale of self-expression and the struggle to achieve self-love," Ellen Wittlinger offers a novel just as emotionally honest and deeply felt.

Marisol Guzman has deferred college for a year to accomplish two things: She will write a novel and she will fall in love. How hard could that be? She gets her very own apartment (with her high school best friend as roommate) and a waitressing job at a classic Harvard Square coffeehouse. When she enrolls in an adult education class -- "How to Write Your First Novel" -- there are two big surprises waiting for her: John Galardi, aka "Gio," a fellow zine writer who fell head over heels for her last spring (despite the fact that she's a lesbian) and her instructor, Olivia Frost, the most exquisitely beautiful woman she's ever seen.
But as Marisol ventures into what seems to be her storybook romance with Olivia, things start to go off track. Between the ups and downs of her new relationship, her strained friendship with Lee (a newly out lesbian who is crushing big-time on Marisol), and her roommate's new boyfriend (who is equally afraid of Marisol and their cat) moving in, Marisol starts losing sight of her goals. Is she too blinded by love to see the lies?

Length: 261 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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"A rich and solid representation of a girl on the cusp of maturity."--Kirkus Reviews

"This engrossing novel is beautifully structured, with just the right balance of relationships, plot, and settting. The characters are realistic and sympathetic...aspiring writers will lap it up. REcommend this book to them and to readers who like bittersweet romances with an edge."--VOYA

"This solid entry into the small but growing canon of GLBTQ fiction for teens will engage readers."--Booklist

"Characters are well-drawn and believable, and the interpersonal relationships realistic."--School Library Journal

"The emotional morass of Marisol's life...is complex and realistic; it will draw in both fans of the earlier novel...and realistic-fiction readers seeking a love story with depth."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Ellen Wittlinger is the critically acclaimed author of the teen novels Parrotfish, Blind Faith, Sandpiper, Heart on My Sleeve, Zigzag, and Hard Love (an American Library Association Michael L. Printz Honor Book and a Lambda Literary Award winner), and its sequel Love & Lies: Marisol’s Story. She has a bachelor’s degree from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. A former children’s librarian, she lives with her husband in Haydenville, Massachusetts. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN : B007EDOQFQ
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (19 June 2012)
Language : English
File size : 4880 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 261 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 1,046,334 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 1,249 in Growing up Fiction for Children
- 1,555 in Fiction About Dating & Sex for Young Adults
- 1,686 in LGBTQ+ Fiction for Young Adults

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NJB

AMAZING READ!!

Reviewed in the United States on 21 April 2017

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Such a great book. I read this first when I was in high school and it has always stood out for me so I figured, "Hey why not read it again. Bring back the the nostalgia." And boy am I glad I did. I could not put it down. From the moment that it arrived I was hooked again.

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Reviewed in the United States on 21 October 2016

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I haven't got to read this book yet due to reading parrot fish first but the author is the main reason I got this book I have always related to alot of the characters she uses and it helped me in my younger years

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Reviewed in the United States on 21 March 2016

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A lovely love story

Erika Borsos

How to Mend a Broken Heart and Who's Zooming Who?

Reviewed in the United States on 17 August 2008

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This is a "coming of age" story with a contemporary love theme filled with a few twists. It is about Marisol Guzman, an eighteen year old who has two life goals: the first to write her first novel and the second to fall in love. Next year, she plans to attend Stanford University, the main reason ishe wants to live on the West coast is because she has lived her whole life in Massachusetts and wants to experience something new and different. Marisol is exerting her independence by living in an apartment with a male friend but it is not what you may be thinking. She and Birdie, her room mate, have been friends for a long time but it is not about romance at all. It is about discovering life on their own terms. The author provides humorous conversations throughout the novel and also great insights into human behavior. She explores several themes: falling in love with the wrong people, deceiving someone you profess to love to prevent emotional pain and reconciling friendships and love after bonds of truth have been broken.

Marisol meets a nice but somewhat sad looking high school senior girl named Lee at the coffee shop where she works. She likes her and they become good friends. Marisol learns Lee came from Indiana to live with her sister, not long after announcing to her parents she was a lesbian. Significantly, Marisol had within the past two years informed her parents she was gay. Her mother, a social worker and counselor had embraced the idea. Her father had also adjusted to the facts of life but less enthusiastically. Marisol had signed up for an eight week adult education class "Writing Your First Novel" and was surprised to find Gio (given name John) was also taking the class. Their friendship is somewhat tense because he had fallen hard for Marisol and recently expressed his love to her, only to discover the true reasons why she did not respond to him as expected. Surprisingly, he also signed up for the adult writing class taught by a graduate of Columbia University who had three published novels under his belt. Unfortunately, there was a change of instructors and Olivia Frost, a stunning dark-haired beauty with long legs and piercing eyes was teaching the class instead. Her credentials were impeccable, she was a recent Harvard graduate and nearly finished writing her first novel. Olivia WOWed the class with her intelligence and knowledge. Marisol and Olivia became friends and later eventually more ... Marisol was fulfilling one of her life goals but she discovered gradually that Olivia was not what she seemed. Through some interesting twists in the plot, the author gradually revealed deceptions and lies which each character used to get what she wanted from the other. Marisol learned sometimes true love is right under your nose but you have to recognize the clues ... This is a very interesting book which will appeal to a select audience who is open to different expressions of love. I was unaware of the contemporary theme but enjoyed the book because the author is an excellent writer. Erika Borsos (pepper flower)

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Morrigan Alexandros

Fast and uncomplicated read

Reviewed in the United States on 20 August 2008

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Love & Lies is the story of Marisol, a spunky, funny lesbian girl from Massachusetts who just graduated from high school. She defers Stanford for one year to accomplish two goals: write a novel and fall in love. She and her gay best friend Birdie, move into an apartment in Cambridge. Living with your best friend is not easy, especially when he has the tendency to pick up strays of all species, human included. Enter Damon, Birdie's crush who just moved in and Marisol has trouble accepting.

Marisol also has a job at The Mug, a historic place in Harvard Square where T.S. Eliot supposedly sat to write poetry. There she meets Lee, a young lesbian girl who moved from Indiana to Cambridge because it was too difficult for her parents to deal with her sexual orientation. She befriends Lee and tries to get her to have fun.

To accomplish one of her goals, Marisol enrolls in an adult education course about writing a novel. There she finds her friend Gio, who had previously declared his love for her (in the first book, Hard Love ) and she had turned him down. Missing Gio's friendship, she tries to mend the relationship. The class is taught by Olivia Frost, a name so fitting. Marisol falls head over heels in love with her teacher and seems that goal number two is well underway. What Marisol was not expecting was that she would have to deal with more unrequited love, jealousy, Damon, Gio, love and lies.

The book was a quick and uncomplicated read. Maybe too uncomplicated. The book was a quick and superficial read. Except for the character of Marisol, none of the other characters were truly developed. Thus, I was unable to understand, or care about, Marisol's crush, Lee, or even Gio. We are merely presented with fleeting images of these characters that are never fully fleshed out.

Regardless, the book is quite funny. There are some truly laugh-out-loud moments and I found myself enjoying some hilarious moments. And although I enjoyed the funny parts of the book, the character and story development left me unsatisfied. The story seemed rush and willing itself to end. The coincidences at the end were way too obvious and unnecessary. The book is predictable enough; we did not need further confirmation of what we already knew. And the end, well, I guess we will have to wait until Lee's story comes out.

Lastly, some ranting. I wish the author, Ellen Wittlinger, had had a better editor. My biggest pet peeve is the possessive. There are several grammar mistakes in the story and they are distracting. The editor should have known that it is not the "class's X" but the "class' X".

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