I really, really, really hate Firefox and IE tabs, why can't they put the favourites bar down like chrome does? it's the second time I have to rewrite the whole review !! 
 The first time I heard about this book a good friend of mine was doing an assessment for the publication in Spain (the book was published last may, by the way). what she told me about it wasn't much, but it woke my interest... and then it was frustrating because the book was (almost) impossible to get in Europe... 
 So when netGalley offered the book without a request needed, I was truly in ecstasy :) 
 After I finished the book I was reading, I grabbed my galley and started reading (not that my TBR pile is smaller now). 
 The expectations were high enough to make me nervous and a bit scared. And if I don't like it? Well, the world is not going to stop because papalbina doesn't like a book, but still... I didn't want to be disappointed again (and lately that was the norm). At the end it was just like "come on, it can't be that bad" 
 It wasn't bad at all; it was wonderful, a great experience. My English vocabulary is not wide enough to express how much I liked the book. It did remind me that Australian YA authors are worth reading. They put something in their stories that you see rarely in this kind of books from somewhere else. in this case, it could be the friendship between the characters that made you envy them (even if you have also a best friend in your life), it could be that it's touching without being corny or sickeningly melodramatic, the cuteness of the love story, the charisma of the characters, the funny dialogues, the situations... 
 In short, it's a feel-good book, a really good one. You finish it with a goofy smile and care so much for the characters that you long to know how they're doing after this wonderful night. 
 Many thanks to netGalley and Random House 
 Children's Books/Knopf Books for providing me with a galley of the book :) 
 (and thank you to nomes for the link to fishpondworld. I ordered an Australian copy; I can't wait so long to put it in my bookshelf :)