If I Fix You

If I Fix You

By:  Tanya Lee Stone

Book Quote:

"Maybe Sean and I could be fixed.  Maybe the damage could be buffed out, repainted, polished until it hid something only the two of us would every know about.  But that wasn't the question.  The question was...did I want to?" - Chapter 4, p 40

Library Cat Rating:  😺

Review:

   Jill is a fixer.  She likes to fix cars with her dad, she likes to help fix her friends problems, she gets involved in her new neighbor's problems, but she just can't seem to "fix" what is wrong in her own life.  Ever since she walked into her home to find her mother in a compromising position with her best friend Sean, her life has been a mess.  Jill's lost her mom and her best friend and can't seem to get control over anything in her life.  When she meets Daniel her new next door neighbor after trying to "rescue" him from a fight with his mom she grasps at the opportunity to talk to someone who knows what it's like to come from a less than perfect home.  Jill's budding relationship with Daniel is complicated by the fact that he is twenty-one to her sixteen and no matter how much she wishes she could push Sean from her life he was and is her best friend and first love.
   VERDICT this is a good book that older teens will enjoy.  Jill is a strong protagonists that many readers will be able to identify with for one or more reasons varying from parental disagreements to attraction to an older individual.

Citation:
Johnson, Abigail.  (2016).  If I fix you.  New York, NY:  Harlequin Teen.

Annotation:
Jill doesn't know how to fix things when her mom leaves and she suspects her best friend Sean may be part of the reason.  She seeks solace in her new next door neighbor Daniel who also comes from a "broken" family and may be the only one who truly understands what she is going through.

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Extras:

Check out author Abigail Johnson's GoodReads profile here.

An interview with author Abigail Johnson.