Absolutely Fantastic!! - Rated 
This book is great!! I really couldn't put it down and ended up finishing it in the early hours of the morning. Remy was a compelling character.
A great story that im kind of sorry i have finished it. : (
Fab! - Rated
I really found that I couldn't put this book down - I'm sad to have finished it. Its a very realistic read :) gotta be a fave! :)
love at about 10 pages in - Rated
this story is so, so sweet. for the first 10 pages, i didnt like it that much (but its only 10 pages), but then you meet dexter and i instantly liked him. this book also made me laugh and just couldnt put it down. at the end, i really felt like crying. i'm not making a lot of sense, but in a (few) word(s) i LOVED it!
it does make you think and stays with you after you've finished it; it's basicly about this girl called remy and love, really. so if you dont like that kind of thing, i wouldnt recommend you reading it.
otherwise, it is sublimely fantastic!
A hilarious, but heart-felt book - Rated
This Lullaby, by Sarah Dessen, is probably one of the most complicated but interesting and funny books that I've ever read--with all of those three things effecting themselves upon the reader at the same time.
Remy, 18, is just out of high school and running between summer boyfriends throughout the summer before she goes to Stanford. All her life, Remy has been watching their mother go through five husbands faster than you'd imagine, and the more Remy grows up, the more she realizes that she doesn't--can't--believe in love, because of watching all of these marriages unwind and fall hard, until her mother yet again finds a new man. The only kind of relationship that Remy's ever believed in is the temporary kind, which somehow makes her the tough one of her friends, amongst other reasons. She always assumes that things will end--until she meets Dexter. Just by looking at him Remy knows that he breaks a million of her "Guy Rules": He's in a band, hyper and over-excited, clumsy, the list goes on and on. But the more she bumps into him, the more Remy realizes that she's attracted to Dexter and thus, she becomes his girlfriend.
This book isn't as mushy as you might think it would be. All sorts of different emotions can go through your head at once: You can feel like crying for Remy when she gets invited to her brother, Chris's girlfriend's house, Jennifer Anne, to have dinner with them and something goes terribly wrong, be surprised--almost shocked--shocked--at the way Remy's new step-father, Don, reacts when he's locked out of the house one day, or laugh out loud by Dexter's hysterical comments. All in all, this book will take you to another world that you've never been to before: Remy's world.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too - Rated
Sarah Dessen's THIS LULLABY is one of the best teen books I've ever read. It's the story of Remy, a girl who has no faith in love. Part of this is because her own father never even saw her, only wrote a now-famous song, called "This Lullaby," about her before he died. It certainly doesn't help that her mother has been married four times, and, at the beginning of the novel, is about to have her fifth wedding. Remy says about her mother's marriages, "She takes on husbands the way other people change their hair color: out of boredom, listlessness, or just feeling that this next one will fix everything, once and for all."
Remy likes to feel in control of things when she's got a boyfriend. She knows all about getting into relationships, the first romantic rush, and ending them before there's any emotional attachment. She's almost always the one to dump guys, not the other way around. She's got plenty of practice at it, too.
One day, at the car dealership owned by her mother's next husband, she meets a guy named Dexter. He's very determined to get to know Remy, and, at first, she thinks he's ridiculous and ignores him. Dexter, however, is persistent. When the two finally get together, everyone is shocked that Remy's staying in the relationship. Dexter is so many things Remy could never put up with. He's messy and impulsive, but, most of all, he's a musician. Until Dexter came along, Remy had a "no musician" rule, and now she's broken it.
Signs point to Remy ending this relationship and not looking back. Everyone thinks that's what will happen. Everyone except Dexter, who wants it to be more than a summer thing, who has faith in their relationship. How will it all end?
This is an amazing young adult book by a brilliant author. Sarah Dessen, author of several other books including THAT SUMMER and SOMEONE LIKE YOU, does an awesome job of keeping the reader's attention throughout THIS LULLABY. She does it with her original story, told in Remy's unique voice. It doesn't hurt that Sarah Dessen is great at creating fresh, original, believable characters. Thoughtful and powerful, this book also has its moments that will make readers laugh, which is a nice change of pace in the story. Every aspect of this novel surpasses expectations.
Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce
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