I really liked Gayle Forman's heartbreaking If I Stay. While her general genre isn't really my usual taste, I was moved by that book, and was gung-ho to try for this one. At the end of the day, I'm not really sure what I think of it. 
 Twenty-four hours later and I'm still uncertain. There were things I hated about this book, yeah, but I was never bored and I never once didn't want to know what would happen to Allyson. I was engrossed thoroughly, even as I was screaming in my head for Allyson to stop being TSTL (even though she wasn't really too stupid to live, it's just some of her choices made it seem that way.) As with Forman's previous books, I was drawn to the characters, but the plot... 
 So, you see, I'm not sure. 
 The things I liked: 
 -Europe. I love Europe. The descriptions of all the flashy, annoying tourists and the architecture, and the sights made me nostalgic. I have got to go back there. Canada just doesn't hold a candle. 
 -Dee. Seriously awesome character right there. 
 -All the Shakespeare love. Though, to be fair, I would totally have chosen Hamlet over Twelfth Night because I'm a tragedy person, unless we're talking about The Merchant of Venice, which contains that perfect mix of tragedy and comedy. 
 -The writing. It flows and it hooks. The writing is top-notch. 
 -The self-discovery of Allyson. I loved watching her grow and realizing that she could be 'Lulu' even without Willem. That she could do things, could take control, and study whatever it was she wanted to. 
 The things I did not like. 
 -The fact that Allyson was stupid enough to go to Paris with a stranger she had just met, that she didn't know, that could be a raper, creep, and pervert. TRAVELING WITH GUYS YOU DON'T KNOW IS STUPID. 
 -The fact that they got so ~in love~ all in one day. And then that she mooned and mooned and mooned about him for a whole year after that. I thought her mooning and breaking free of the pre-med education she didn't want was great, and her trying to adjust to college was great, but the mooning about Willem just seemed weird. I repeat, you knew the stranger just one day. Which I guess is the point, given the title of this book. But still. 
 And those are the two things. They may be only two things, but they are two huge things that overshadowed the novel because they are basically the entire plot. 
 In conclusion, I didn't hate this book. There were a lot of things I actually really loved. It's just that the main plot, the whole meet a guy, runaway with him for a day, have sex, get back and pine about it isn't one that I like, or condone. And maybe I should be able to overlook all that for the story, and I did to a degree, but it just taints things for me.