The Infinite Moment of Us
As high school graduation nears, Wren Gray is surprised to connect with gentle Charlie Parker, a boy with a troubled past who has loved her for years, while she considers displeasing her parents for the first time and changing the plans for her future.
Wren is surprised to connect with gentle Charlie Parker, a boy with a troubled past, while she considers displeasing her parents for the first time and changing her future plans. The plot contains profanity, pervasive sexual situations, and violence.
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Okay, so let me start this review by saying I've read other of Lauren Myracle's books and they were fine. I read one I really liked and one that was only so-so. So far, this one is shaping up to be the absolute worst and I am going to take the time to entertain myself by reviewing as I read. If you don't care for a blow-by-blow review of each and every idiotic thing that annoyed me (why would you?) move on. But here goes because at least I'm entertained. Also, there will probably be spoilers. But again, why would you care?
-Inserting teenage slang like "hey girl" and "sweet" and "hells yeah" does not make your characters more like teenagers.
-Really? You named the black girl Shaniqua? Maybe if you had introduced a whole bunch of black girl characters and they had a variety of names I would be okay with this, but the one obviously black girl and you name her something really basically stereotypically black?
-Why is Charlie Parker (oh, he's a jazz musician too?) so obsessed with Wren?
-Why is her name Wren?? How pretentious are her parents?
-WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD LET A 17-YEAR-OLD STITCH THEIR HAND UP?? I understand you don't have insurance but GOOD GOD.
-Okay, so clearly Charlie's foster brother is South Asian because his name is "Dev" and apparently Lauren Myracle can only come up with super stereotypical names for non-white characters.
-Charlie: "Wren is amazing and perfect but let me think, cryptically and at length, about this other girl named 'Starrla' (whaaaaat)."
-What kind of a name is P.G. Barbee?
-Wren's experience at the shooting range mirrors my own exactly. I'm slightly creeped out.
-P.G. is totally going to try and get with Wren even though Tessa's throwing herself at him.
-So, Starrla was completely broken and ruined by her childhood experiences but we're just going to brush it off because she's a "slut"? Yes, let's not get into the tragedy of her life because she's just a convenient foil for truly tragic Charlie, there only as a sexual distraction.
-Also, Charlie's pretty slutty too. Let's be equal opportunists, here.
-Of course Wren's parents got her a Prius. I can hear Jeremy Clarkson giggling delightedly in the background right now.
-"Her curves made him hard." Ewwwwwwwww.
-And there it is. My least favorite stylistic YA writing trope: "quirked" instead of "smiled". STOP IT. It's not different and original, everyone does it, and it's ANNOYING.
-Charlie is a weird mix of blatant sexuality and naive romance. Since every book has to come to some sort of climax of a problem, I'm really hoping it has more to do with the latter than the former.
-He's her first boyfriend and he wonders why she hasn't touched his dick yet. Maybe all of him is dick.
-Why is everyone so obsessed with sex and Wren having touched Charlie's dick?
-Wren has no real opinion of her own. She does things and phrases them as questions because she is so desperately in need of validation from literally everyone. This makes me want to punch her.
- So she sends him a sexy picture and he has an emergency and has to go and she gets mad? Now I REALLY want to punch her. I understand she's all new at this shit but CALM DOWN. Does "emergency" mean nothing to you, you spoiled brat?
-One thing's for sure: I'm super glad I don't have to deal with this dramatic teenage crap in my own life anymore. I know the pain is real when you're 17 and pain is still real later but boy does this kind of fictional pain not affect me anymore.
-"I don't want our first time to be with a condom." Safe sex = best sex, kiddies.
-On the plus side, I have learned that boys can get the HPV vaccine, too (thanks, CDC).
-All the talk about the undies but no talk of pubic hair. Why?
-Ugh. Too sappy. I might puke. He brought champagne?
-I am legit expecting someone to bust in on them like a bad movie villain. But I was wrong about the P.G. thing, so who knows?
-So no one interrupted them. Damn.
-But then later contortionism in her car. I cannot work that one out.
-So now she wants him to come with her to Guatemala and will be hideously disappointed if he lives his own life just as she's trying to live her own? Ugh, ditch her, Charlie!
- Ugh, you quoted Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes?
-This is just too sappy.
-She's supposed to leave in two days. She has made real commitments to real people outside of her super-sheltered, self-indulgent Southern life. If she bunks off now, I'm going to be mad for the people she's disappointing. Which is literally everyone.
-Tessa's mom has a collection of black Santas. Where have I heard that before? #papertowns #dontripoffJohnGreen
-Obviously Starrla is coming for them. I want there to be death. But not Starrla's. Poor girl's already been through enough.
-Clearly not enough.
-So, Wren decides she's done and she just cuts him off? In Tessa's words, like a tag on a piece of clothing. Yes, I'd say that's accurate.
-And yet somehow they found a way to be together.
-And we're not going to come to any closure with Starrla. She's just some sad, trashy whore who tried to get in between the beautiful golden couple.
I still want to puke.
Don't read this book.
-Inserting teenage slang like "hey girl" and "sweet" and "hells yeah" does not make your characters more like teenagers.
-Really? You named the black girl Shaniqua? Maybe if you had introduced a whole bunch of black girl characters and they had a variety of names I would be okay with this, but the one obviously black girl and you name her something really basically stereotypically black?
-Why is Charlie Parker (oh, he's a jazz musician too?) so obsessed with Wren?
-Why is her name Wren?? How pretentious are her parents?
-WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD LET A 17-YEAR-OLD STITCH THEIR HAND UP?? I understand you don't have insurance but GOOD GOD.
-Okay, so clearly Charlie's foster brother is South Asian because his name is "Dev" and apparently Lauren Myracle can only come up with super stereotypical names for non-white characters.
-Charlie: "Wren is amazing and perfect but let me think, cryptically and at length, about this other girl named 'Starrla' (whaaaaat)."
-What kind of a name is P.G. Barbee?
-Wren's experience at the shooting range mirrors my own exactly. I'm slightly creeped out.
-P.G. is totally going to try and get with Wren even though Tessa's throwing herself at him.
-So, Starrla was completely broken and ruined by her childhood experiences but we're just going to brush it off because she's a "slut"? Yes, let's not get into the tragedy of her life because she's just a convenient foil for truly tragic Charlie, there only as a sexual distraction.
-Also, Charlie's pretty slutty too. Let's be equal opportunists, here.
-Of course Wren's parents got her a Prius. I can hear Jeremy Clarkson giggling delightedly in the background right now.
-"Her curves made him hard." Ewwwwwwwww.
-And there it is. My least favorite stylistic YA writing trope: "quirked" instead of "smiled". STOP IT. It's not different and original, everyone does it, and it's ANNOYING.
-Charlie is a weird mix of blatant sexuality and naive romance. Since every book has to come to some sort of climax of a problem, I'm really hoping it has more to do with the latter than the former.
-He's her first boyfriend and he wonders why she hasn't touched his dick yet. Maybe all of him is dick.
-Why is everyone so obsessed with sex and Wren having touched Charlie's dick?
-Wren has no real opinion of her own. She does things and phrases them as questions because she is so desperately in need of validation from literally everyone. This makes me want to punch her.
- So she sends him a sexy picture and he has an emergency and has to go and she gets mad? Now I REALLY want to punch her. I understand she's all new at this shit but CALM DOWN. Does "emergency" mean nothing to you, you spoiled brat?
-One thing's for sure: I'm super glad I don't have to deal with this dramatic teenage crap in my own life anymore. I know the pain is real when you're 17 and pain is still real later but boy does this kind of fictional pain not affect me anymore.
-"I don't want our first time to be with a condom." Safe sex = best sex, kiddies.
-On the plus side, I have learned that boys can get the HPV vaccine, too (thanks, CDC).
-All the talk about the undies but no talk of pubic hair. Why?
-Ugh. Too sappy. I might puke. He brought champagne?
-I am legit expecting someone to bust in on them like a bad movie villain. But I was wrong about the P.G. thing, so who knows?
-So no one interrupted them. Damn.
-But then later contortionism in her car. I cannot work that one out.
-So now she wants him to come with her to Guatemala and will be hideously disappointed if he lives his own life just as she's trying to live her own? Ugh, ditch her, Charlie!
- Ugh, you quoted Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes?
-This is just too sappy.
-She's supposed to leave in two days. She has made real commitments to real people outside of her super-sheltered, self-indulgent Southern life. If she bunks off now, I'm going to be mad for the people she's disappointing. Which is literally everyone.
-Tessa's mom has a collection of black Santas. Where have I heard that before? #papertowns #dontripoffJohnGreen
-Obviously Starrla is coming for them. I want there to be death. But not Starrla's. Poor girl's already been through enough.
-Clearly not enough.
-So, Wren decides she's done and she just cuts him off? In Tessa's words, like a tag on a piece of clothing. Yes, I'd say that's accurate.
-And yet somehow they found a way to be together.
-And we're not going to come to any closure with Starrla. She's just some sad, trashy whore who tried to get in between the beautiful golden couple.
I still want to puke.
Don't read this book.
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