Almost Perfect
by:
Brian Katcher (author)
Winner of the 2011 Stonewall Children's & Young Adult Literature AwardYou only hurt the ones you love.Logan Witherspoon recently discovered that his girlfriend of three years cheated on him. But things start to look up when a new student breezes through the halls of his small-town high school....
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Winner of the 2011 Stonewall Children's & Young Adult Literature AwardYou only hurt the ones you love.Logan Witherspoon recently discovered that his girlfriend of three years cheated on him. But things start to look up when a new student breezes through the halls of his small-town high school. Sage Hendricks befriends Logan at a time when he no longer trusts or believes in people. Sage has been homeschooled for a number of years and her parents have forbidden her to date anyone, but she won’t tell Logan why. One day, Logan acts on his growing feelings for Sage. Moments later, he wishes he never had. Sage finally discloses her big secret: she’s actually a boy. Enraged, frightened, and feeling betrayed, Logan lashes out at Sage and disowns her. But once Logan comes to terms with what happened, he reaches out to Sage in an attempt to understand her situation. But Logan has no idea how rocky the road back to friendship will be.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780375893797 (0375893792)
Publish date: October 13th 2009
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
I love this story. I think it's a big eye-opener. It's not really a HEA but more of a cautionary tale. Logan and Sage could have had a very beautiful relationship, but Logan let too many things block him along the way. He begins as someone closed-minded and slowly see his mistakes. Often the jo...
W O WLogan would seriously have to be the douchiest dickhead I have ever read about. I could not stand him at all. He was constantly contradicting himself - stating one thing, and then pretending that he never actually admitted it. And he was such a self proclaimed martyr, as if he should have been ...
Appeal Characteristics love story, transgendered, society-issues, family issues, health issues, coming of ageI struggled with the rating for this book. I wish they had like a half star system, lol. I met Brian Katcher, and he's such a sweet guy...and I liked the book...I just wished more for a love ...
A 3.5 star book, rounded up.The blurb lays out the plot of Almost Perfect neatly: Logan is falling madly for Sage, and then he discovers that she was born a he. So this is much more about Logan's struggle to understand and accept Sage as she is than it is about Sage herself. Logan is, honestly, a bi...
It took me some time to get into this. It really started off slowly, and the main character, Logan...ehh, he was kind of pathetic at the beginning. Well, no, he was kind of pathetic all through the book, but I felt more sympathetic toward him as the book progressed.