You, Maybe: Exploring the Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School - A Thought-Provoking Teen Romance Novel for Young Adults & Book Clubs

At first, when you begin to read this book, it reminds you a lot like Twilight. Unrealistic, mismatched romance. Read on, and you will find i's not. In fact, it's quite the opposite. And that is what makes it perfect--it is the ideal antidote for this Edward-obsessed generation of developing young women..At the beginning, Josie is an independent, philosophical, free sophomore in high school. At the end, she is a boring, trying-to fit in, tight pink sweater kind of girl. How did this happen?Carson -- the ideal senior, right? This story is amazing because it really portrays how much young girls fantasize in high school. She fantasizes that Carson loves her because they have the same spirit in ways, that he is vulnerable and tough at the same time, and that he loves her unconditionally. In truth, it's all a facade so he doesn't look like a loser while his ex (that he hasn't gotten over--and Josie knows this as a fact before she falls before Carson at the beginning on the book) is going out wih a sophomore in College.Anyway, in the end, all of Josie's fantasies fall apart. But she keeps rebuilding them in the hopes that she won't look like the fool she abhores at the beginning of the book. (At the beginning, Carson has just broken up with another girl who screams and cries that she loves him in the middle of a party).But she finds herself in a tense scene acting exactly as the girl she pitied so much.In the end, she regains her poise and her cleverness and her common sense in a very (cute?) (clever?) way. Which is a much, much better ending than what I was expecting...I was expecing Josie to get together with her old love, Michael.I don't know what this negative feedback is about. I think, like all books, you should hear it out to the end and make the judgement. Yes, you may be turned off at the beginning--this is a cheesy, drooly book but at the end you will be proved most pleasantly wrong.I LOVE this book because it is precisely how a Twilight would end up in real life--that book is fantasy on all levels.The message is "You will lose yourself if you give in to your fantasies--if it's too good to be true, it probably is."Read this book--it deglamorizes the silly and immature legacy the Twilight series has impressed on teenagers.