Heaven to Betsy - Maud Hart Lovelace

Title: Heaven to Betsy, Betsy in Spite of Herself
Author: Maud Hart Lovelace
Genre: Classic, YA
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 704 (337 + 367)
Date read: April, 2013

Heaven to Betsy
Betsy Ray is loving every minute of freshman year at Deep Valley High-with new and old friends all around her...not to mention boys! But most intriguing of all is the one she and her best friend, Tacy, dub "the Tall Dark Stranger."

Took me forever to read this. It wasn't bad, but just never completely caught my attention so I'd only read a chapter here and a chapter there. Finally this morning I got stubborn and sat down to finish it. The irony is that it's really a fast read - I read the last 50 pages in 25 minutes.

I've heard about the Betsy-Tacy series forever and have been looking for them at least since 1996. I finally just took the plunge and bought this two-for-one book, knowing that they weren't the two first books in the series, but having been told by a friend that if I was to start reading them at my age, these would probably be the ones I'd like the most.

Unfortunately I only sort-of liked it. I know it's a classic, and if I'd read it as a tween/teen I would probably have loved it, but as it was I didn't think it quite stood the test of time without the rosy-coloured glasses of nostalgia. Having finally finished Heaven to Betsy, I think I shall leave it at that... at least for now.

Betsy in Spite of Herself
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