My review of the book (Part I)
- To be honest Boulevard didn't really catch my attention from the beginning but it's a story that was recommended to me and I saw it everywhere, so I started reading it
- Hasley Weigel (the main character of the book) is a very clumsy girl in my opinion it all started on the first day of school, of course she was late to school and the teacher won't let her in class, that's where she decides to go to the bleachers and meets a boy.... Luke Howland is a boy who has a lot of problems and memories that hurt and he gets high believing that this is the solution until he meets Hasley who does everything to help him no matter if she gets judged for it. This is a very cute book and also very sad.
- I really liked the handling of the subject because at no time made us think that drug use is okay, but it shows us little by little what are the reasons that can lead a person to consume these substances, show that this is not the way to end the problems and that people do not know how to express themselves, and you can get out of there, you just have to let yourself help ...
- Luke is a little hateful with Hasley since he met her, he has always been like that until little by little with time they get closer and get to know each other and then they become inseparable at a time the dependence of both was not very healthy; why lie to them if they had their problems, but it is also seen that this relationship had a positive effect on the lives of both (mostly Luke's).
- This story is quite juvenile from the beginning and is well narrated in the book, it shows more than anything else the relationship of these two and how it develops; it is not a perfect relationship at all but it is perhaps a push that Luke needed to the point that he came to have faith in himself again.
- One of the things I liked the most was that the name of the book matches the story, it refers to Luke seeing life as a Boulevard of Broken Dreams, that's what he called a forest, it was like his way of thinking that when a dream was destroyed it fed the boulevard.... Hasley is an awkward girl who only lived with her mother and even though she was very inquisitive, somehow her attitudes changed Luke's mind.
- Luke was a very closed boy, I did not like that from the beginning he treated Hasley badly, I am one of those who think that no matter how bad you are other people are not to blame for your problems and it does not give him the right to treat her badly, but little by little he was changing, he began to see things in different ways and obviously Hasley influenced his changes from the beginning.
You can read the book here.