Review: Shipping
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2013
I really enjoyed this book.  If I had reviewed it after I first read it, I would have given it 4 stars.  However, after rethinking it after I read it, I think it's a really sweet depiction of young love facing some adult challenges and my review went up to 5 stars.  I checked out reviews of the book on another popular book review website after I read it, and was surprised to see that many people think this is a fictionalization of a popular "shipping" of two members of a current boy band.  That added another dimension to the story for me, thinking of how "traditional-thinking" our society has to be despite how progressive we feel we've become.  I do miss a bit of the sexual tension and just general sexuality that was in Finding Shelter, my favorite of her books, but still plenty there.  All in all, she's become an auto-buy author for me.