Haha I think my main problem with this book (and the whole series really) is that I don't really like the main character, and it's quite unfortunate when you don't like the main character of the book you are reading.

edit:! I watched the movie, and I actually really liked it! I think the movie kind of saved the book haha touched up all those bits which were terrible and replaced them with something making sense. well, most of the time anyway.

Read for Concorde Book Awards 2016.
Front Cover Thoughts: Actually, from the title of the book being Apple and Rain which are obviously names, I was expecting a cute teen romance about 2 broken hearts coming together.
Last Page Thoughts: I loved that, I loved that!
Characters: APPLE: Apple was amazingly relatable, so so sweet and immediately likeable. I loved the way that Apple wasn't one of those perfect girls, she didn't have the perfect figure and she didn't always know what was best, she didn't always make the right decisions, like us all. RAIN: Rain was a loveable little character, full of her own personality whether other people liked it or not. ANNIE: She wound me up so much, she was so awful - all she thought about were her own dreams, rather than her children who needed her. NANA: A wise, loving grandmother who wasn't the best person to talk to for emotional help. She was strong and blunt, full of proverbs like my great-granny. DEL: He was so brilliant, some of his jokes were awful, but on the whole he was hilarious. Probably running alongside Apple as my favourite character. CHRIS: Doesn't seem to fully understand that he has a daughter. MR GAYDON: Reminds me of my maths teacher - makes whatever he's talking about sound interesting and life-changing.
I loved this book. It had so many life lessons in it, and everyone in the story had a story of their own. A real variety of characters, Apple and Del being my favourites. I really felt for Apple all the way through, really rooted for her. All she wanted was to make everyone happy, that's how it felt.
One of the major life lessons of this book was: Be careful what you wish for. This book illustrated it in a wonderful way, making it real and modern, not just an old proverb.
Another thing I loved about this book was the use of poetry. This probably sounds ignorant, but I've never really thought much of poetry. It seems to make no sense, it hardly ever rhymes and I cannot work out how many words are supposed to go on each line. But this book made poetry something magical, a door to another world. I'm not saying this book has miraculously made me start wanting to write poetry, but it has made me look at poetry in a different way. I love books that can do this - another example is Graffiti Moon, which has made me look at art and graffiti in a completely different way since. I love books that make you see things differently, have an almost audible effect on you, if that makes sense.
So this was a brilliant book. Some of the things happening were like some of the things my auntie has done, some of the things Apple did, I've already seen demonstrated in my cousins. This book is very realistic.
I loved it.

so sad :'( but it adds character to Viola and Bradley.. makes you understand them more. poor Viola... good lesson about hope and always being nice to people, though

it all seemed pretty irrelevant, and then there was the last sentence :)))))

very good! you can tell that Teri is still an author who is only just getting into writing, but she's already very good at it! sometimes expressions were repeated, (I don't know why but it kind of frustrated me a bit when I saw "we drove through stubbled fields" for the second time) this book is well written enough to really make you feel something (or make me feel something anyway) I nearly cried at the end. and its so tense all the way through! so glad I've got Shattered ready to read, I'd be going up the wall if I had to wait for it from the library.
Summery: a to-read book (as long as you've read slated). tense, fast paced, exciting, keeps you on your toes. no bad language (as I recall), no inappropriate content, well written. great!