Title: The Boyfriend List
Author: E. Lockhart
Book in Series: 1 of 4
Genre: YA Contemporary
Released in: 2005
Pages: 229
My Rating: 3 stars
Synopsis: Ruby Oliver is a normal teenage girl…one who just broke up with her boyfriend. And lost all her friends. And has started having panic attacks. Her mom sends her to a therapist who tells her to write a list of names of all the boys she’s had any kind of relationship with at all. So she does. Starting from kindergarten, all the way up. And then she finds out that her therapist wants to know why each name is on that list. Ruby doesn’t understand what this has to do with right now. But in doing so, she learns a lot about herself, and realizes she has more thoughts and feelings about some of these boys than she remembers.
My Thoughts: I would have LOVED this if I were younger! It’s not usual for me to say that about YA books…but there just isn’t a whole lot of substance to this book. Still entertaining enough to finish it, but I am debating, yet, if I will continue on with the series (I also own books 2 and 3). There is a LOT of high school drama, and like, the dramy-est of the drama. lol But it does show how teenagers life is so wrapped up around themselves, and school, and I can see how it’s hard for them to break out of that mentality, and how it can totally affect their wellbeing. I remember things seeming so big and important, and now looking back, they weren’t. And so I can see how things Ruby goes through, in the long run of life, won’t be so big…but at the same time, they are still things that can shape her for the future too.