Love Has To Be Love Character Analysis

I have so many different thoughts and opinions about this book. I started out loving Has to Be Love, was super conflicted in the middle, but thought the ending was pretty spectacular. Like I said, conflicted.

Our narrator, Clara, was rather frustrating to read about because she was so torn between what decisions to make about particular things, but she was a truthful character (to us at least). Reading Clara's justifications for wanting certain things made me more interested in the story and what would eventually happen and I was pleasantly surprised in the end. I expected it to be your usual case of a new guy in town and the two characters fall in love and they go off to college together blah, blah, blah. This book was surprising in this aspect and therefore different because this didn't happen which makes it even more …show more content…
I am personally not very religious, but that's not a problem as I can still appreciate books with characters who follow different religions. However, I didn't understand completely religion from the perspective of some of the characters. Take Clara, for instance, for someone who believes that you shouldn't have sex before marriage and appears to follow this belief, her actions don't follow as Clara went surprisingly far with Rhodes. I know she felt guilty afterwards, but the fact that she let it get that far when she had been in similar situations with Elias and with Rhodes in the barn and had been able to stop it going too far shows that she is fully aware of what she is doing. It also doesn't make much sense when there is the whole "nothing between the knees and shoulders should be touching" because there is a fair amount of touching, but Clara didn't really care.

Overall, I did like this book. The story was nice with a more unique outcome than many other young adult books which I enjoyed. However, I didn't find it particularly engaging and couldn't get attached to any characters, including the