Never have I read a book with such an awful ending. It was so bad I reread multiple times, and made my friend read it, just to make sure I hadn’t missed anything. But no, it just sucked.
Sutter Kelly is one of those popular high school seniors who live in the now, everyone knows he’ll be a nobody in his adult life, but for now he is flying high. Aimee is not, she is carrying her family, while desperately trying to get into a good college. Sutter decides to take her under his wing and show her a good time, or is he just dragging her down with him?
One of the problems I have with Sutter and Aimee is their relationship. Sutter, at the beginning, is purely having fun and trying to show her a good time, while Aimee believes they have an actual relationship. And while by the end this has changed, there is never a decisive point where we see his enlightenment. This makes it hard for me to find his supposed love sincere.
The story is good, and it is nice to see Sutter’s progress throughout the novel. And then Tharp ruins it in one page. If you read the book you’ll see there are many potential endings: some nice, some heart breaking. But instead Tharp just ends it.
Knowing a film had been made, my friend and I both agreed that it surely couldn’t end the way the book does without the cinema breaking out in riots. So we googled and sure enough they’ve changed it and made it a million times better.
Its worth a read, if just for the amount of shouting the end causes.
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