*3.5*

I love how Willa thinks about more than just her problems and actually tries to change the world by simply helping where she can in her town. In a lot of young adult novels you have characters that only care about their boyfriend, and don't have much character development. Changes the status que. Great book!

You don't do that to JFK Willa, you just don't. I also am still finding it hard to believe that they are only 14 years old. And don't even get me started on the dramatics between Tina and Will. You talked to each other for two whole days, why are you crying, you really don't love each other. Look how Willa is treating poor JFK and she actually loves him. I am crossing my fingers that there is a next book because I need to know what happens.

This concluding novel to the series did its justice on growing Willa into a new and improved young adult. However, it did not felt like the novel concluded all of the other characters. Indeed that this book is about Willa and not the rest of the Bramble community yet Willa invested most of her life into this town and its people, who also helped Willa in return when she needed the help. This book would be five stars if the other supporting characters were in a good spot in their lives and not just Willa. Maybe Coleen was approaching a more realistic ending that shows that not every one is going to have a happy ending and not everything is going to run and end smoothly. Even though the conclusion was not the best, I still enjoyed being a child again and reading a series that impacted my childhood greatly.

Some things can be learned from this book especially for book people :)

3.5

This was a really hard book to review for me. While I didn't hate the book, I didn't thrill in it either. I loved the reading concept and the quotes at the beginning of each chapter. I liked how the author had a character who seemed to have a brain in her head, though at times I wanted her to use it more. I liked the family feel to the book as well.

What didn't work for me was how young the book felt. I see this book geared more for the younger teens and the older teens becoming bored with it before the ending arrives. It was cutesy and nice, but nothing dramatic enough to really talk about. I don't know if this is the norm for this authors writing, but it moved at a slow pace and drag in quite a few places. Having never read any of her previous books, maybe I am missing key factors in the story, but it did feel like it could be read as a stand alone.

If you are a fan of the series, then by all means continue on with Willa's adventures. I am going to leave this series though for the younger teens.

This series has really gotten bland but I'm curious to see where this goes...
I support Jess because he seems really cool.

I didn't read the books before this one but I still loved it as a stand-alone book!!!

I remember reading these so long ago this was def the best one I want to reread now