4.5/5
Tell Me Three Things is a sad, truthful look at grief and the journey after loss. Yes, it does spend a lot of time talking about boys (and there are an unrealistic amount of them), but it's never really about the boys. It's about Jessie, and her growing and trying to find a way to live life without her mom.
They did drag the whole "Who is SM?" mystery for a little long. It was pretty obvious who SM was, and whenever Jessie theorizes incorrectly I'd roll my eyes, but that's not the point of the book. It's not about who SM is, or what boy Jessie will end up with. It's about relationships, like Jessie's relationship with old friends and new friends, with old family and new family.
Tell Me Three Things is thoughtful, a little sad, and a little hopeful. I like Buxbaum's direct writing, and the vignette style where she would disperse bittersweet snapshots between chapters. I finished it in one day, and would recommend it to fans of teen realistic fiction similar to a lighter TFIOS or a heavier Since You Been Gone (Morgan Matson).
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