Name: How to Say Goodbye in Robot
ISBN: 9780545107082

Natalie Standiford

After moving to Baltimore and enrolling in a private school, high school senior Beatrice befriends a quiet loner with a troubled family history.

How to Say Goodbye in Robot

Jess

Read this review on my blog! --&gt; <a href="http://www.gonewiththewords.com/2013/02/review-how-to-say-goodbye-in-robot-by-natalie-standiford.html" rel="nofollow noopener">How To Say Goodbye In Robot by Natalie Standiford</a> How To Say Goodbye In Robot is one of those books whose writing is really incredible and different and engaging…but the characters drive you nuts! Bea is a girl who may not know how special she is and ends up dating a guy who is not good for her. Teen me can totally relate to this. I know all about dating the wrong guy. So many times I yelled at Bea to just let Jonah go. Don’t get me wrong he cared about her, but not enough to try and work past his many problems. Jonah had a lot of issues and I did not particularly like him very much. Bea’s family life was less than ideal. Her parents also had a lot of issues. We couldn’t really tell the extent of these issues until further in the book, but right off the bat you could tell something was off. As for Bea herself, I liked her. I thought she was a great person with a huge heart and had a lot going for her. And even though she spends most of the book frustrating me, by the end she does wake up. In the end I felt I could imagine her happy, in college, with great friends. There are several other characters in this book that kind of lighten up the novel. They are from this call-in radio program Bea and Jonah listen to. Sometimes they were totally off the wall, but like I said, it lightened it up. Like I mentioned, the writing is really engaging and quirky, so you can be sure this book will have you turning page after page. But don’t be surprised if you find yourself upset for most of the book, even when you’re done. That’s how I felt, which is why my rating is in the middle. I say give it a go though. Maybe see if your library has it.

Sarah Sammis

Dull characters. Ugly san serif type face. Weird use of pink. Pages and page of phone transcripts. Oddly the bit about the dead but actually institutionalized brother was the most realistic piece of this (in that I had a neighbor growing up who it turned out had an institutionalized sibling that everyone either pretended didn't exist or was dead).

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Jeannette Ordas

I loved that this was a good, well-told story with heart. It's about love and friendship and it's quirky without being gimmicky. Beautiful & highly recommended.

Lauren hughes 

I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH!!!!!!!OH MY WORD!!!!!!!

Wren Hardwick

This is  NOT a teen romance.

This is about two strange and outcasted young people who find comfort in the other’s company.

This fact is merely the best part of this book. There isn’t a love triangle like most novels have. There is some love, but it is NOT the focus of the book.

Beatrice = Robot Girl
Jonah = Ghost Boy

These two find each other their senior year. Bea moved, once again, to a different school in a different town. She had to make new friends and didn’t expect to find someone she connected with as well as she did with Jonah. 

Jonah is the outcast of the school because he doesn’t talk and he barely is there. They made a horrible joke in seventh grade that gave him the nickname he has (Ghost Boy). He had a traumatic childhood and it is ever-so the center of the book. Jonah finds out a horrible secret one of his parents kept from him and he is determined to make it right.

Beatrice’s best friend was her mother until she started having mental breakdowns and had a weird love for chicken for every meal of every day. Her father is very distant and spends a lot of time at work. Her family has their own secrets that are waiting to be unraveled.

I picked up this book because it was on a list I read about “YA Mental Illness Books.” Though it doesn’t come out and say it, you learn more about depression in this book not from the inside of one’s thoughts but through someone’s eyes. It was an interesting read and I would suggest it to someone.

How to Say Goodbye in Robot

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