{"id":6553,"date":"2015-08-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6553"},"modified":"2020-06-03T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T15:16:15","slug":"never-always-sometimes-by-adi-alsaid-book-review-high-school-cliche-or-best-idea-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6553","title":{"rendered":"Never Always Sometimes, by Adi Alsaid (book review) – high school cliche or best idea ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Never be a teenage cliche<\/a>.
\nNever do what’s expected.
\nNever take rules too seriously…<\/p>\n

Somehow, the list of “Nevers” that best friends made just before high school (so they would stay originals) isn’t as iron-clad when they unearth it during that interminable spring semester of senior year, so they decide to make each “never” into “always”.<\/p>\n

“Never be recognized by your lunch spot”
\n“Never hook up with a teacher”
\n“Never pine silently after someone”<\/p>\n

Read the beginning of this August 2015 title free here<\/a>, courtesy of the publisher, to meet Dave and Julia and their “nevers” list.<\/p>\n

What “I’ll never…” statements have you reappraised in your life?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Never Always Sometimes \/ Adi Alsaid. Harlequin Teen, 2015.  [author’s tumblr<\/a>]  [publisher site<\/a>]  [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Best friends Dave and Julia decide to do every “never” on their long-time list during the final months of high school, but the California teens might wish that some rules had stayed unbroken so their hearts would stay that way, too.<\/p>\n

The pair want to stay original (like Julia’s ever-roving birth mom) by avoiding the typical cliches in high school – running for student office or dyeing your hair a rainbow color – and they’ve stuck to that list for nearly four years. Suffering now from senioritis,  it’s time to break all those rules!<\/p>\n

From Julia “hosting a beer party” when her dads were gone to Dave and his brother helping her create the ideal lunch spot at school, the ten items on the list start getting crossed off.<\/p>\n

When Dave becomes interested in Gretchen, Julia realizes that “never date your best friend” is the rule she most wants to break – but is it too late?<\/p>\n

Never…expect Julia’s mom to visit when she promises.
\nAlways…remember their favorite bench overlooking Morro Bay.
\nSometimes…rules are there for a reason, but sometimes they’re not.<\/p>\n

Friendship, love, and choices fill this funny and sad book as the two best friends have to find out which expectations are worth any risk.  (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never be a teenage cliche. Never do what’s expected. Never take rules too seriously… Somehow, the list of “Nevers” that best friends made just before high school (so they would stay originals) isn’t as iron-clad when they unearth it during that interminable spring semester of senior year, so they decide to make each “never” into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[90,22,7,4,75,105,11,20,5,18,40,46,43,187,39,49,184,31,15,9,21,35,3,6],"class_list":["post-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-california","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-lgbtq","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11380,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions\/11380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}