Girl (Katherine) meets boy (Michael), girl falls hard on the boy. Boy says she loves the girl, I mean really loves that girl. And girl is very much attached to the boy, and wants no one else. Parents of girl put the boy and girl's relationship to a test and spends the summer apart.
“Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands” - Katherine, Forever
My thought on Judy Blume's Forever.
I've done some research on this book (THANKS WIKIPEDIA) after I've read some of the reviews on goodreads. The novel was written 37 years ago (written 1975), and during that time, it was in the middle of controversy
because the book covers issues on teenage sexuality. And I assume that American teenagers who live in the 70s is not so open on reading this kind of stuff.
Comparing this book to today's books, it is very mild, but still covers the important things like, opening yourself to others, limiting yourself to one person at a very young age, pressure, what teenage pregnancy can do to you, saving yourself from teenage guys that makes you confuse your feelings on what they really want and interpret it as love, and how the word Forever really means when you are still young and very naive.
Even though this book is a bit old, I think a lot of things still apply a lot of things to this generation. It's all back to the basics, really.
3.5 out of 5.
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