Name: For Keeps
Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9781101186732

Natasha Friend

Josie's never met her dad, and that's fine with her. To Josie, Paul Tucci is just a guy who got her mom pregnant and then moved away. It all happened sixteen years ago, when Josie's mom was still a teenager herself. But now Paul Tucci is back in town, and Josie has to deal with not one but two men in her life - her father and her first boyfriend, who Josie fears will hurt her just like Paul hurt her mother.

For Keeps

Just as sixteen-year-old Josie and her mother finally begin trusting men enough to start dating seriously, the father Josie never knew comes back to town and shakes up what was already becoming a difficult mother-daughter relationship.

Nadine 

#ya #chicklit although #Friend was touted as the new #Blume I found this somewhat lightweight. Yes some good diversity (2 dads, single mother, soccer playing girls). But for me I’d like more ambi-gender books in this space and I just can’t see many boys reading this story with only the female heterosexual-normative viewpoint.

Amy Grieve

Josie's mother got pregnant with her at age 16. And she has never met her father because he moved away to Arizona before she was born. All her live she has only though the worst of men but know she has to try and change that because she may just be dealing with her own boy drama as well as the sudden reappearance of her absent father.

For Keeps was a charming book I will admit that but for me it felt like it lacked that 'something' which every great book has. If you ask me what that 'something' is I honestly wouldn't be able to tell you because you will find that it differs from person to person.

For Keeps

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