Say What You Will

This book. Aw man, this freaking book. There are very few things that I have to say about this beautifully written, realistically portrayed story. First, I have to acknowledge the excellent job Cammie McGovern did writing about teenagers, in a non - oh my god, I had a terrible high school experience, so I'm going to live out my fantasy about having the perfect guy with great hair and 7 million friends fall in love with plain old me - sort of way that you see so many other female YA writers do. Amy and Matthew are both flawed. And they're flawed in such different ways. But not only does Amy have CP and Matthew OCD, but they themselves are flawed. Their personalities. Both of them have spent so much time being babied as to not upset them, that they're development was stunted and they had to learn how to grown up with the help of one another, after many different mutual heartbreaks. What I truly love about this story, is it's not an obvious love story. These two awkward kids care very much about each other, and have a real bond, not just fluff. It was a gritty and messy story that ended beautifully. It was, as I can't stress enough, real, and for that, it will always be in my top favorites.