Genre: YA Contemporary
Published: March 1, 2013 by Sourcebooks Fire
Series: #3 (Hundred Oaks)
Length: 320 pages
Source: bought (at Barnes and Noble)
“Kate has always been the good girl. Too good, according to some people at school—although they have no idea the guilty secret she carries. But this summer, everything is different…
This summer she’s a counselor at Cumberland Creek summer camp, and she wants to put the past behind her. This summer Matt is back as a counselor too. He’s the first guy she ever kissed, and he’s gone from a geeky songwriter who loved The Hardy Boys to a buff lifeguard who loves to flirt–with her.
Kate used to think the world was black and white, right and wrong. Turns out, life isn’t that easy…“
Miranda Kenneally has done it again everybody! *CLAPS EXAGGERATEDLY* Seriously! She’s one of the BEST author out there. This book is just WOW! While reading this book, I felt like I was with the characters the WHOLE time. Things I Can’t Forget is a companion novel to the other Hundred Oaks books, and you could totally read it as a standalone, but it’s better (in my opinion) if you read the two previous books so you can have a background on the other characters since they do appear in this book as well as the future Hundred Oaks books. I felt like that was a run-on sentence, but you get my point.
This novel is about Kate who is a very pious person who often sees things in black and white, but when she attends a camp as a counselor, she starts realizing that things aren’t always black and white. She discovers that her truth isn’t everyone’s truth, and she has to respect other people’s beliefs. I seriously love each and every character in this book as well as the characters from the previous books! Parker and Will from Stealing Parker are actually supporting characters in this book which is great because I love those two! Jordan from Catching Jordan appears about three times in the novel which is also great because I love her! Heck, I LOVE everything about this series!
The romance is very realistic and cute. Matt is an adorable character. He’s funny and I love how he is passionate about music and books! I also like how the parents in this book (and the rest of the Hundred Oaks series) makes a lot of appearance. I hate it when parents suddenly go MIA just so the guy and the girl can have the house all by themselves and have sex.
Overall this book is just amazing! If you’re looking for books that involves friendship, first love, and adventures, then you MUST read it. I also realized that if you pick up and start reading any of the books from this series that it’s VERY hard to stop. You’ll always tell yourself “one more chapter”. Trust me. I had to memorize 100 vocabulary words for a test I had the next day (which was today, so this happened yesterday) and I chose to read this instead and IT WAS FREAKING WORTH IT.
