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I feel he is realistic in his pining for Sam, considering they were close once. I honestly feel he is mature for his age, which makes me believe he was mature for his age when he was younger hanging out with Sam. It didn't seem like he had a good group of friends, was thought of as the quirky guy you don't really hang out with, and he probably hasn't felt a connection like that in a long time.
Awesome choice for any high school girl .
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I get that he's a great guy and he did want to take care of her (so, the total opposite of Rob!) but I felt like he was used as a total plot device...
Like, "Hey, your current bf is suuuper lame, check out this childhood sweetheart!" kind of thing. I wish there had been a third guy who was a little in the middle, someone she hadn't grown up with and who was genuinely nice, but she actually had to spend time with him to get to know him. I honestly feel like because Sam grew up with Kent, she views him more as a friend/protector than a romantic interest, and I hate when books assume that every male is a possible match for every female.
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I agree! Although Kent was by far my favourite character (and was clearly a thousand times better than Rob!), I think the whole relationship between him and Sam was played up just a tad too much. I don't think he was really pining after Sam that entire time at all. Rather, it felt like Sam was stuck in the mindset that everything and everyone revolved around her and her friends, and when she realized that Kent cared about her rather than her popularity, she just kind of assumed that he'd been in love with her the entire time.katiesquilts wrote:I feel like I may be one of the few people who isn't totally in love with Kent...
I get that he's a great guy and he did want to take care of her (so, the total opposite of Rob!) but I felt like he was used as a total plot device...
Like, "Hey, your current bf is suuuper lame, check out this childhood sweetheart!" kind of thing. I wish there had been a third guy who was a little in the middle, someone she hadn't grown up with and who was genuinely nice, but she actually had to spend time with him to get to know him. I honestly feel like because Sam grew up with Kent, she views him more as a friend/protector than a romantic interest, and I hate when books assume that every male is a possible match for every female.
My view of Kent was that he was more disappointed in her than anything. He knew she used to be really nice and playful and had all of these interests and unique qualities that just sort of got pushed aside when she was absorbed into Lindsay's group. For me, Kent seemed like the kind of guy who regretted losing a friend - not just the fact that she ditched him for cooler crowds but the fact that she became a completely different person along the way. Maybe Kent did pine after Sam, but it would have been the Sam that he used to know, not the one who "ruled the school" with Lindsay's gang.
That was also what stuck out to me when Kent said that he could see right through her. Yes, he said it out of frustration, but I think he wanted to believe that Sam wasn't a bitch, that she just acted like one. It seemed throughout the story as though a lot of the bullying happened because Lindsay instigated it. Sam, Ally, and Elody mostly just went along with the taunts and the jokes because that's what you did when you were friends with Lindsay. Does that excuse Sam's behaviour? Nope, not at all. But it did help me make sense of the so-called "infatuation" that Kent seemed to have for Sam.
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He may not have had a relationship with Sam as the ultimate goal as he seemed genuinely surprised when he got the rose and didn't immediately read too much into it.
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