I was hoping this book of love poems might be a good one for my young adult (teen) daughter. She wasn't convinced, and neither am I. Lines like 'there was laughter, like ripples around a stone.' And 'I am tasting your mouth - not food. I am drinking your eyes - not wine.' .....seem prosaic to say the least, and not, somehow, what young adults want to read. And in the middle of meeting and falling in love, there is an accident. All of a sudden he's distant. Why? Well we never learn why. It's kind of just tucked in the middle and left there. Some of the poems toward the end are better. 'August' is something every girl can relate to. But many of the poems miss the mark