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Sometimes I go into a book knowing pretty much what is going to happen but just curious about how the whole thing plays out.\u00a0 This book, on the other hand, was one of those \u201ceveryone says it\u2019s great, so I\u2019m going to read it even though I don\u2019t remember what the reviewer said about it back when I decided to order it\u201d kind of books.\u00a0 I put myself on the waiting list and then, when it showed up, I started reading without so much as a glance at the summary.<\/p>\n
I usually like going into a book completely blind because I can enjoy the story better if my experience is not tainted by another person\u2019s opinion.\u00a0 When I first started reading this book, I thought the story was going to be a healthy serving of \u201ccoming-of-age in a small town\u201d with a side order of \u201cgay older brother.\u201d\u00a0 Boy, was I wrong!\u00a0 When the tragic twist happened somewhere near the middle of the book, I felt like someone had punched me in the gut.\u00a0 I immediately flipped to the back of the book and then looked inside the front cover to see if there had been any kind of indication or warning about it in the summary.\u00a0 Yup\u2026\u00a0 I guess there was.\u00a0 Part of me is glad that I wasn\u2019t able to steel myself against the shock, so I could react more naturally to the story, but part of me wishes I had known something<\/em> was going to happen so I didn\u2019t have to fight so hard not to cry while I was reading in the middle of the pediatrician\u2019s waiting room before my son\u2019s check up!\u00a0 I refuse to give anything away, but I will say this much \u2014 read this book somewhere you can feel free to let the tears flow and be sure to have a hanky or a tissue handy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes I go into a book knowing pretty much what is going to happen but just curious about how the whole thing plays out.\u00a0 This book, on the other hand, was one of those \u201ceveryone says it\u2019s great, so I\u2019m going to read it even though I don\u2019t remember what the reviewer said about it … Continue reading See You at Harry\u2019s by Jo Knowles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}