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Apr 15, 2017TEENREVIEWCREW rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Something In Between by Melanie de la Cruz was showcasing the average teenage girl's life. Jasmine de los Santaos goes to high school and is pretty, popular, cheerleader captain. She always got good grades, and finally got a full scholarship to college. Unfortunately, that might not happen because her parents' visas had expired, and they had been living in the United States illegally. Will Jasmine's family be deported back to the Philippines? Who knows. Read the book and you'll find out. I loved the determination and hard work involved in the story. I rate Something In Between four out of five stars, it was such a good book. - @SDJ of the Teen Review Board of the Hamilton Public Library Something In Between is real, but that’s about it. It touches on an important issue and real situation that people have to deal with; having no documentations and being illegal immigrants. Jasmine, the main character, has it all when it comes to smarts, family and seems like the perfect girl. She’s the cheer captain and the National Scholar Award winner, but when she expects her parents to be the happiest of all, they tell her she can’t accept the award. Their entire family doesn’t have green cards and Jasmine’s life will change forever. All this is thrown down on Jasmine, and she struggles to find a way to keep her American dream alive, despite the scares and realizations she will have to face if she gets deported. I think this was a decent book, but some things stopped making sense in the book after the first two hundred pages because some of the most important factors of the book got dropped off. The author begins to tell us about things in Jasmine’s life that we don’t really care about, and overall these details don’t make us better understand Jasmine but rather make us slowly dislike her character. Jasmine begins to tell everybody about her situation and it seems like the author was trying to turn this into a Wattpad fiction. The ending was rushed and a blur. I was disappointed, to say the least, because I expected so much more from this book and author. That’s why they say, never judge a book by its cover, because one of the reasons I grabbed this novel was because of its visually appealing front. Rating 1.5/5 - @jewelreader of the Teen Review Board of the Hamilton Public Library