Rider, a boy whose heritage we never really find out beyond his tanned skin, is currently living with a Latino family. The way Armentrout uses her Latino characters I felt was just a little too stereotypical.
This is another one of the Problems I had with The Problem with Forever (and minor spoilers ahead, you can skip this part if you want, head to the ‘minor spoilers over part’ it’s not a that crucial part of the story but I thought I would warn you guys) Latino Characters This book to me felt a little like a sad made for tv movie, with a Romeo and Juliet feel (thats not a spoiler, I promise no one will kill themselves in this book), two lovers kept apart by family and crime. I knew going into this that this wasn’t going to be all cutesy and cuddly because of the dark subject matter, and I liked the way Armentrout handled it, but for almost 5oo pages I never really got attached to any of the characters like I would have expected. I had a Problem with The Problem with Forever.įirst of this book is quite big.It’s not mammoth or anything, it’s not even the biggest book I’ve read in the last 5 weeks, but it is almost 500 pages, which I consider to be quite long for a contemporary. Because of this this book just work for me. Maybe thats all I’ cut out for when it comes to contemporary books, I always have been more of a fantasy person. When I think contemporary, perhaps unfairly, I think ‘quick cute read’.
Mallory and Rider learn to overcome the many barriers in their way, which include social class, race and Mallory’s parents in order to truly discuss the horrors of their childhood with the only other person who could really understand each other. It’s at the last period of a stressful day that Mallory walks into her Speech class (which she is already worried about as it is) and sees the all too familiar face of Rider sitting in the seat next the one she’s been allotted. Years later and Mallory and her adoptive parents, Carl and Rosa, decide that Mallory should try and integrate herself with other teens and learn to better communicate with other people if she wants to leave for college the next year.
But Mallory never found out what exactly became of Rider, the boy who always made sure he was the one in the firing line of their foster father’s physical abuse. After a particularly bad incident when they are both 13 Mallory is badly burnt and is subsequently pulled out of her foster house and is then adopted by the burns doctor who oversaw her treatment. The Problem with Forever by Jennifer L Armentrout is a contemporary novel which follows main character Mallory (or ‘Mouse’) Dodge as she learns the boy who was her only protector as a child in a foster home were they both suffered abuse is attending her new high school.
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