Reading Response #6: Something like Fate

     I'm currently reading the book Something like Fate by Susane Colasanti, this is a great book about two friends that have done everything together since they were little but then one of them started to like her friend's boyfriend. Lani is the main character and her friend Erin started to date a guy named Jason from their school, ounce Lani met him she felt a "connection" with him that she's never felt with anyone else and after a while of Lani and Jason being friends Lani found out that Jason felt it too. Lani tried to deny it at first because she didn't want to face the truth but then she learned that there was no way around it because it was something like fate.
  
    While I was the reading the book I put a post-it on this page the line that caught my attention was, "I can usually tell when a boy likes me. There have been a few. But the reason I've never had a boyfriend is because they all seemed really immature. I mean, I've gone out with a few different boys, but I've always kept it casual. I just never felt this kind of connection I've always wanted to feel". The reason this is important is because Lani said this line the first day she met Jason and she didn't even know him that well yet. After knowing him for a while, and when Erin left for summer camp Lani and Jason started hanging out together everyday. Lani then realized that she couldn't do this to her bestfriend, Erin, so she tried to avoid him as much as possible but she then realized that it was almost impossible. Jason then broke up with Erin by writing her letter and Lani and Jason started dating but they still didn't tell Erin.

    I think that Lani is a very smart girl so she will be able to figure out what's right and what's wrong. She should also know that what she's doing to her bestfriend is not right because Erin really liked him and even if Erin starts to like somebody else it's not okay for Lani to start dating Jason. I also think that what Jason did was also very wrong because it's not alright to date someone and then date their friend especially their bestfriend and then not tell anyone about it.

     All in all, Something like Fate is a really good book and anyone would be able to understand it and it's a really entertaining book. This book can teach you if you actually know what fate is because Lani was confusing fate with something else because what was happening with her and Jason was definitely not fate.