SuitabookForbidden Boy
Hailey Abbott
- Reading
- Read alongside the book’s romantic tension, pause to discuss secrecy, family loyalty and the difference between intense attraction and knowing someone well. Revisit the ending to consider how the conflict is resolved.
- Themes
- Attraction versus family loyalty: Julianne continues seeing Remi after discovering that his parents are opposing her family over their beachfront property. The situation invites attention to whether strong attraction can coexist with responsibility to family, but the book’s final judgement is not clear.
- Private relationships amid public conflict: Remi’s parents seek control of or expansion onto Julianne’s family’s beachfront property, while the teenagers’ relationship develops in the middle of this dispute. The conflict creates a setting for considering power and competing interests, but it is not clear whether the narrative meaningfully examines the fairness of either family’s position.
- Worth knowing
- The treatment of intimacy beyond this is not established.