This one started off slowly but it really picked up! I can easily see how it wasn't for a lot of people but what really got me into the book was the mystery. I can appreciate the quirkiness of characters but the quirks if these weren't exactly my style. Not a bad thing, but just not the quirk I usually go for. 
 I honesty really liked the mystery a lot! I suspected eeeeeveryone and the killer? Didn't guess it haha. 
 I liked the small town feel BUT at times the jargon was a bit much and didn't feel natural instead of being causally worked in (for my tastes). 
 I liked it though! Very interesting and great to read a solid YA mystery that's strictly mystery/thriller. 
 Full review originally posted HERE on The Book Addict's Guide 1/27/14: I was nervous going into NO ONE ELSE CAN HAVE YOU because I'd seen so many mixed reviews, even before the book came out. A teen mystery? A quirky main character? A sort-of messed up plot? This sounded like it would be something that I'd enjoy. I was really hoping to connect with this book and fall in love with the quirky, messed-up story that it was! 
 I was scared for a while because the beginning started out slowly for me. We hop into some crazy action right away with the book kicking off with the gruesome murder of Kippy's best friend Ruth. From then on, we get the story from Kippy's POV, following her story as she tries to solve the mystery of her best friend's murder and at times, struggles to convince herself that her death wasn't her fault since Ruth was on her way to Kippy's when it happened. When Kippy gets a hold of Ruth's diary, she uses that to help solve the murder, all the while finding out much more about Ruth and their friendship than she had ever realized. 
 With assurance from a few people who had already read the book, I continued on, waiting for it to pick up and bit and it definitely did for me. I used to be a hardcore mystery gal and I feel like we don't have a lot of strictly mystery choices in YA at the moment so I was definitely sucked in to Kippy's detective work! A few people had said that it was really obvious who the killer was and somehow I spent the whole book literally suspecting everyone else (even Kippy, trying to chalk it up to some kind of mental illness) and never suspected the actual killer, so that worked out really well for me! Looking back, I don't know how I missed that person as a suspect, but it was a surprise to me when it was revealed so I had a really fun time reading the end of the book! 
 As far as the quirkiness goes, I was hoping this would be "my sort of quirk". I really love eccentric characters and being taking outside of the norm -- especially when we break the mold of the football player and the cheerleader (can't tell you how old that is for me to read) -- but Kippy's small town of Friendship was a bit too weird for me. I didn't quite connect with Kippy because she was a bit too off-the-wall for my taste and some of the people in her town were straight-up weird. I think I appreciate geeky eccentric more than weird eccentric because I was actually gravitating towards Kippy's friend Ralph who was obsessed with video games and at first reminded me of a character I might see on The Big Bang Theory. 
 I'm from the Midwest (Chicagoland) and my sister lives in the Milwaukee area so I was hoping to really connect with the Wisconsin setting but I think the small town charm was lost on me. I don't usually have issues with small towns but maybe it's a northern Wisconsin thing. (Yes, I did look it up and Friendship, WI is a real place. It's in central Wisconsin in the middle of nowhere.) How can I say that the vernacular felt unauthentic when Kathleen Hale is from Wisconsin? All I know is that the little phrases and words that you would think are typical Wisconsin or Minnesota ("Dontcha know?") felt forced and overused. I wonder if that's just because I'm not used to hearing them in day-to-day speech or if there really was an excess of them? 
 There were also a few parts that I was moderately uncomfortable with. Ruth's older brother and now the one person that will help Kippy with her investigation, Davey, is back home from the war in Afghanistan, released after an incident which resulted in the loss of the tip of his finger. There were a couple times that joked about him having PTSD (which he actually might -- I'm not sure if that really was ever cleared up...? It seemed like a gray area because I can't remember.) and even further so, about those PTSD triggers leading to domestic violence. I'm not usually so sensitive about stuff like that but for some reason it just really bothered me in the moment. 
 I have a few mixed emotions about NO ONE ELSE CAN HAVE YOU, but overall, I tended to look back on the book in terms of its mystery since that's what the main focus was. There were a few issues I had in terms of characters and setting, but I still enjoyed the book and was pleasantly surprised, although not totally blown away.