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Book Review #92: The Places I've Cried in Public by Holly Bourne

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  I've had this book for quite a while and was always intrigued by the premise. Plus I've heard great things about Holly Bourne as a writer. Amelie is in love with Reese. But is love supposed to hurt like this? Is Reese supposed to make her cry this much? Now Amelie wants to look back at her relationship - and to do this, she will visit all the places that Reese made her cry. Because if she can remember where things went wrong, she might finally start to get over him. I went back and forth with this book. I started off not really liking it, then I really warmed to it, then I started skimming it because I felt it was dragging a bit, but then I enjoyed the ending. So it was a mix of feelings for me. The first thing that threw me off about this book was the age of the characters. I didn't go into this knowing that it was YA, and I was excited to read about the breakdown of an adult relationship. So the fac...