Reviews for For Keeps

The average rating for For Keeps based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-10-23 00:00:00 Jeff Blake It's funny, because the older I get, the more I can identify with the parents in the teen book lol. This story is about a sixteen year old girl, Josie, and her relationship with her mom and never-before-met dad. It used to be when the daughter and mother argued over something, I would take the side of the girl and that makes sense when you as a reader are young. Now that I'm older, though not a mom, I get where the adult is coming from and their reasoning for things. Josie is having a hard time with her mom dating someone and not giving her 100 percent of her attention. She is also angry that there's a lot her mom didn't tell her about her teenage pregnancy and dad. I see both sides of this and the way it played out was well done. I also liked the friendship and romantic drama thrown in. My downsides were it felt kind of slow and Josie was pretty immature, but she is young and I can't really expect more from her. Overall, cute read and good narration.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-03-01 00:00:00 David Snapp Okay, so after reading this book, for some reason, I keep picturing the Gilmore Girl chacters in my head. Especially Paul Tucci--I keep seeing him as Christopher from the TV shower. I see a lot of similarities in the way that the mother-daughter bond is in both the tv show and the book.** This was a pretty good book for me. Nothing spectacular, but I enjoyed it. I felt that the characters and the story line seemed very real. I think that having a mom dating again is an ordeal (not sure if this is the right word) that many teenagers go through if they live with a single mom. And I think that the romance between Riggs seems pretty real too. (I know some bloggers are having problems with Josie forgiving him for something too easily, but honestly, I probably would have done the same thing.) The only thing that I didn't like is that I felt that the ending was too soon. I want to know more about what happened with Paul Tucci and with the guy Josie's mom was dating. And I want to know more about Josie and Riggs' relationship. If you want a cute, "real" read, then I think you would enjoy this one. **Okay, after posting this and then going to read other reviews of this book, I see that I am not alone in thinking that the book resembles Gilmore Girls.