This Lullaby

Reader reviewed by Laura

Wow this book is an amazing book. The Girl Remy meets this guy who is way differant from her. The guy remy Likes is Dexter and He's in a band a rock band to be exact. I think this book is pretty awsome the first time i read it i could not and i repeat i could no put it down. The characters sound so cool to me, and it's also really funny, and to top it all off both the characters are so differant from each other that to me makes it more interresting.

Reader reviewed by BellaRoo

Remy is a girl who has many relationships that have always ended up the same way. She has her whole relationships planned out to a schedule. Her dad wrote a hit song titled 'Lullaby' for Remy and now has been turned into elavator music. He mom is a writter who has been married many times and is about to be married again.

Dexter is a musician in aband with his best friends. They move around the country and get simple jobs and play gigs in the evening. Dexter is a guy who wants to remember the moments and get the 'Potatoe Opus' on the top charts.

When Remy crosses paths with Dexter, a guy who is in a band, he world of relationships changes. From the moment Dexter saw Remy, he knew she was the one. From the moment Remy met Dexter she knew he was immature. Remy only wants a summer fling before she heads off to college in the fall while Dexter wanted forever. Remy learns the hard way that in the real world relationships do not follow a schedule. 

This particular book by Dessen was exactly what the back of the book stated, "the science of breaking up." The characters in this book were well written but the overall plot was not what I had imagined it to be. I heard from several of my friends that this was one of their top 5's, it however never made it into my top 50. Dessen has written much better books before This Lullaby that are amazing pieces of work. Remy to me seems to be to cynical of a character and Dexter deserves better.

Reader reviewed by bookmac

Remy doesn't believe in love... ah! She is hardly even phased when she finds out that her boyfriend cheated on her, the only reason she was even slightly upset was because she didn't want people feeling bad for her.

She has a big group of friends, all varying in personality. Over the summer she meets this guy who might actually prove her suspicions of love, wrong. It all started when she went to ask her mom's fiance (yes, the fifth one) a question at his auto/car shop. This guy, Dexter comes has been eyeing her the whole time shes standing there, until he finally approaches her. he says he feels that there was just a certain chemistry he felt between himself and Remy. Of course she didn't feel it... or did she? Is she just denying it to herself?Remy discovers a deep secret about herself.

I thought this book was very well written and explained. The characters' feelings were displayed well and realistoc (in my opinion) for the character's age. The difficult situations Remy finds herself in, are leaving her confused, and in the end she has to do what is best for herself and stop trying to please and help everyone else around her. she has to live her life.

Reader reviewed by mockock

awww..is all i could think about when i read this book... it has romance, and it is also sad, which i dont like. it is about a girl named Remy that goes thought boys like they are purses. she used they then throws them in the closet. but when she mets someone.. she cant seam to break up with him.. but does she? you will have to find out, if you wanna read this book and i highly recommend this book to any young adult reader who loves to fall in love.
with lots of love,,
girl who got sung to sleep with love.

Reader reviewed by Cassie

Remy is known as the tough girl.  Sure, she can plan her mother's 5th wedding easily.  But when it comes to commitment, not her forte.  Remy Starr's mother Barbara Starr, romance novel author, has been married oh, 4 or 5 times.  This makes Remy believe love is not real, but that doesn't stop her from dating every guy in the book and breaking up with them out of nowhere.  So, what makes Dexter so different?

This book demonstrates an excellent message.  This Lullaby talks about leaving before you are left, but then a nice twist with learning to let people in.  I would recommend this book for ages 13-16.  Thsi Lullaby is a one of a kind novel.  Sarah Dessen is an excellent author and I can't wait to read more!

Reader reviewed by Randi

What if you met someone that for some strange reason you allowed to break all you'r rules? Maybe rules like no eating in your car, or no serious relationships? Well for Remy Dexter defied all the rules she set for herself. After watching her mom go throught SIX marriages sh can't help but keep herself for falling for anyone to protect herself. So she build up a hard exterior full of sarcasim and buntness that no guy could brake. Til Dexter came along relationships for Remy where sex and fun. Then Dexter came along who she hasn't even slept with yet, and she truly falls for him. All the drama wrapped up in breaking Remy's tuff as nails attitude and cover is an amazing read, and the love story behind it all is worth ever minute of reading. I read the book cover to cover. Yeah, it was that good!

Reader reviewed by megannx3

Remy is a girl that never has a relationship with a boyfriend more than for the first few fun weeks. Remy is afraid of committment in my opinion. There is a guy who comes along in her life. Who changes it all. They initially meet in a car dealership, where step-daddy numero tres is waiting.
Remy and her friends are living the life. I love the funn in this book. Very realistic. :D
This Lullaby and Just Listen are my favorite Sarah Dessen Books. 

Reader reviewed by cara

It's Remy's last summer at home, where she and her brother have always been close to their mother, a successful writer of romance novels, who is now in her fourth marriage. Because of the endless failures of love Remy has witnessed, including her own first sexual encounters in high school, she feels she has no illusions about love. The lullaby of the title is a song written by her father, who never was able to love his children, but a song that Remy returns to again and again. Lines in the song say, "even if I let you down/this lullaby plays on." So this is the story of how Remy comes to understand that love, even flawed love, is worth experiencing; that she would rather open herself to life and love than to be so self-protective as to deny herself the experience. Oddly enough, it is her mother, even in the midst of a failing new marriage, who helps her to understand this truth. She also learns about loving from meeting Dexter, a musician who makes her laugh and loosen up a bit. Their relationship defies all the rules Remy usually follows to maintain control of her feelings. And she doesn't sleep with him either, even though that is usually her pattern, Their stumbling, bumbling love affair hardly gets going in the first weeks of summer, as both of them are working hard, busy with friends, planning on futures--Remy at Stanford; Dexter dreaming of his band signing a contract with a music company. Remy knows on some level that her feelings for Dexter are different and that she is in danger of falling in love with him. So she tries to keep the relationship contained to avoid hurt, even breaking up with him to pursue a "safer" situation with another guy--safer in the sense she can enjoy his company and know it won't hurt when they leave each other. With Dexter, she isn't so sure, which is why readers will appreciate the final chapter that takes place in November when Remy is at Stanford and Dexter sends her a package that reveals where their relationship is heading. What is good about this book is the humor mixed with reality, with the honest portrayal of smart, articulate teenagers struggling to make sense of a world of nonsensical expectations. Remy, Dexter and their friends and "families" are exasperating, funny, smart, and quite interesting.

Reader reviewed by cara

It's Remy's last summer at home, where she and her brother have always been close to their mother, a successful writer of romance novels, who is now in her fourth marriage. Because of the endless failures of love Remy has witnessed, including her own first sexual encounters in high school, she feels she has no illusions about love. The lullaby of the title is a song written by her father, who never was able to love his children, but a song that Remy returns to again and again. Lines in the song say, "even if I let you down/this lullaby plays on." So this is the story of how Remy comes to understand that love, even flawed love, is worth experiencing; that she would rather open herself to life and love than to be so self-protective as to deny herself the experience. Oddly enough, it is her mother, even in the midst of a failing new marriage, who helps her to understand this truth. She also learns about loving from meeting Dexter, a musician who makes her laugh and loosen up a bit. Their relationship defies all the rules Remy usually follows to maintain control of her feelings. And she doesn't sleep with him either, even though that is usually her pattern, Their stumbling, bumbling love affair hardly gets going in the first weeks of summer, as both of them are working hard, busy with friends, planning on futures--Remy at Stanford; Dexter dreaming of his band signing a contract with a music company. Remy knows on some level that her feelings for Dexter are different and that she is in danger of falling in love with him. So she tries to keep the relationship contained to avoid hurt, even breaking up with him to pursue a "safer" situation with another guy--safer in the sense she can enjoy his company and know it won't hurt when they leave each other. With Dexter, she isn't so sure, which is why readers will appreciate the final chapter that takes place in November when Remy is at Stanford and Dexter sends her a package that reveals where their relationship is heading. What is good about this book is the humor mixed with reality, with the honest portrayal of smart, articulate teenagers struggling to make sense of a world of nonsensical expectations. Remy, Dexter and their friends and "families" are exasperating, funny, smart, and quite interesting.

Reader reviewed by katie

This book was beautiful! I really LOVED it!! Anyone could and SHOULD read this book. Remy is one tough cookie with a lot of rules about: guys, cars...well, everything! And must of all, doesn't want to fall in love...ever. But Dexter, a corky guy, crashes (literally :-D) into Remy's life and won't stop grinning at her. You fall in love with the characters and don't want to put the book down! 'This Lullaby' was the first of Sarah Dessen's books I have read and won't be my last!