Review - Sometimes It Happens

On the last day of her junior year, Hannah's boyfriend Sebastian dumped her. Facing a summer of loneliness, Hannah turns to her best friend Ava for comfort. Ava does what BFFs do: she stays by Hannah's side...until it's time for Ava to head up to Maine for the summer. Also left behind is Ava's boyfriend, Noah, who's such a great guy he gets Hannah a job at the diner he waits tables at. Slowly, Hannah comes out of her funk thanks to Noah's good conversation and their fun times at the diner. But things get complicated when their friendship turns into attraction—and one night, into a passionate kiss. The novel opens on the first day of senior year; the day Hannah is going to see Ava, Sebastian, and Noah all in one place. Over the course of the day secrets and betrayals are revealed, and alliances are broken and reformed. In the end, everyone is paired up once again, but not the way you might think...



Sometimes It Happens by Lauren Barnholdt
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Sometimes it happens is about... Hannah, a girl whose best friend is going away for the summer and is leaving her alone.

Her best friend, Ava, decides someone needs to check up on her, so she sends her boyfriend. Hannah and Noah (the boyfriend) are friends at first and then something more. I’m not really spoiling anything because we learn all this in the first couple of pages. 



Weird right? I think not! The author writes the book in a way so that the book is being told in the past and the present. The past (during summer), the present (the first day back at school). The book starts at the present and alternates throughout the book, so it’s like your getting two story’s but your not. I don’t know if I liked the way the book was set out, but I guess it worked, because the plot was pretty predictable, this way you can tell the story and keep the reader hooked because they want to know why and how it happened, not what happened in the end. 



Overall... the book is a fun read, can’t say it’s as good as all of her other reads, but it’s okay. I enjoyed it, and if you like any of Lauren Barnholdt’s other books, you will probably enjoy this.