I Like You Like This
A Novel
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A loner girl. A mysterious boy. With their peers and parents against them, can an unlikely love survive?
In 1984 Connecticut, sixteen-year-old Hannah Zandana feels cursed with wild, uncontrollable hair and a horrid complexion. Painfully aware of how invisible she is in high school, she longs to change her pathetic life by attempting to impress a group of popular girls. An ill-fated effort, except that she captures the attention of Deacon, a handsome and mysterious boy who also happens to be her school’s resident drug dealer.
Hannah’s life suddenly takes an unexpected detour into Deacon’s dangerous and seductive world. But when their relationship and her family unravel around her, Hannah is forced to reexamine a love she once trusted—while Deacon risks it all to win her back.
Perfect for fans of Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland, 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher, and All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven, I Like You Like This is the first book in a poignant young adult series about addiction, sexuality, peer pressure, and first love.
Lose yourself in a powerful coming-of-age love story with I Like You Like This.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's 1984, and 16-year-old Hannah Zandana hates everything about herself: her acne, her wild hair, her lack of friends, and her parents, who alternate between verbal abusive and neglectful. Hannah's luck seems to change when she meets Deacon Giroux, the school's resident gorgeous bad boy and drug dealer. After mistakenly buying LSD instead of weed, in an attempt to impress a group of popular girls, Hannah has a bad trip, and Deacon is there to help her come down. He doesn't like labels, but from then on, they're a couple in everything but name, as Hannah continues to suffer from her father's form of "discipline" (he prefers "whore" and "harlot" to "sweetie" or "honey" when addressing his daughter) and annoyed indifference from her mother, who dotes on Hannah's younger sister. Hannah's struggles to fit in or forge her own path are far more interesting than Deacon's woes, though Cumiskey gives them equal narrative weight. The flashy showdown at the end feels out of place with the overall tone of the novel, but the two teens' unpredictable melting pot of emotions and attempts to find their place resonates. Ages 13 up.
