Kristen Tracy

When a wrong number blossoms into a phone friendship for Lucy and James, two Vermont high school students, James wants to meet in person, but Lucy is strangely resistant. Told in the form of telephone calls and voice mail messages.

Hung Up

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Lisa Collins

How to explain about a book told completely in phone conversations... I'm just going to be super honest.

I wasn't as impressed with Hung Up as I wanted to be. The idea was refreshing and cool and I had high hopes, but it fell very short. I was actually somewhat bored reading the book.

Just to get it straight: Hung Up wasn't bad.... Reading it was easy and fast, but at one point I looked back and realized I had already read half the book. Cool, awesome. But what I said was, "But I feel like nothing has happened." And really that's how the whole thing is. The main characters bicker a lot (ugh) and sometimes talk about serious things, but I didn't care at all about either of them or where they were going. The conflict was interesting but even that came too late and almost felt like it was just smacked in there because the story needed substance.

I really hate when I don't love books I was looking forward to, but I can't pretend I liked this one when it was just okayish. :(

Hung Up

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