Saturday, June 8, 2019

Wildfire #45 Phone Calls and #46 Just You and Me

45. Phone Calls, Ann Reit, 1983

Juliet has a lot of friends who are boys, but no real boyfriend.  Why can't she be like her younger sister?  Even Barbara has a boyfriend.  

Then comes the voice on the first phone call.  "Did my heart love till now?" asks a boys voice, quoting from Shakespeare.  The caller hangs up without telling Juliet his name, but the voice sounds familiar...

One week later, comes another call.  And after that, another, and another.  Someone really cares about her!  But who?  Is one of Juliet's friends her secret Romeo?

I had fun trying to figure out which boy is calling Juliet.  At the same time, the idea of an unknown person calling Juliet is a bit creepy.

I enjoyed this book.

46. Just You and Me, Ann Martin, 1983

Mollie's been going out with Jamie for almost a year.  He's a great guy, but he never takes her seriously—and that hurts.  Then Matt moves to town, and Mollie can tell how much he likes her. But she and Matt are competing for a big college scholarship, and it seems impossible for them to get along.  

Matt wants Mollie to be more than just a friend; Jamie won't let go.  And Mollie wants to have it all—the scholarship, good friends, and a boy who really cares for her—but how can she win at everything?

I could not stand Jamie and his stupid jokes. The first part of the book was so hard to read.  The book is finally good once Mollie and Matt get together.

2 comments:

Tai said...

I couldn't stand Jamie in Just You and Me either! I don't know what was worst, Jamie talking like a spy or Jamie's corny jokes. It was hard for me to believe that he was ever romantic, the way Mollie mentioned.

Tai said...

I liked Phone Calls, but not as much as some of the other books. I keep thinking of how the author could have made the phone calls less creepy, but I don't think that's possible. Even the mother in the book said it was creepy!

My favorite part was near the end when Juliet said that the boy she loved liked all the sides of her, not just the side that was most like him.