"3.5 out of 5 stars!! It's a sweet book about a girl who feels she has lost her most prized possession, just to have to turn up into the "enemy's" hands. So, she goes out of her way to do what they say to get it back. But just when ...."

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(3.8) it was pretty good, I enjoyed myself ( )

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When her father gets offered a job in a brand new city, Eliza’s twelve year old self decides this will be the perfect opportunity to reinvent herself. With her allowance, she buys a purple notebook and begins making a sort-of bucket list of all the things she wants to do but has always been afraid of. Except the move never happens. Now 5 years older, the list has grown and includes much more personal items—things she doesn’t want anyone to read because some aren’t just about herself. And so, when it is stolen by the 318s (a secret society made up of the popular boys of her high school, including her ex-boyfriend Cooper), she has no choice but to do what they say or they’ve threatened to post her notebook online for everyone to see. Except this isn’t going to be easy because the tasks they’ve chosen for her are the things she wrote…all the things she’s never had the guts to do.

This was a very quick read (I’m sure I would have finished in a day had I not had a paper to write the same weekend I started this) that sucked me in from the beginning. It takes place in the span of just one night, but oh so much happens in those 12 short hours. The 318s basically have Eliza and her two best friends, Marissa and Clarice, on a wild goose chase all over Boston and the surrounding cities. She is forced to do 4 tasks throughout the night that she does, in my opinion, like a champ. They honestly weren’t that bad—except for one—but I can understand why she would have added them to her notebook of things she’s not brave enough to do.

Eliza is sarcastic, spunky, and, at times, kind of crabby. I wanted to tell her to just shut up and listen to what people—particularly Cooper—were trying to tell her, but she definitely had me laughing out loud because of some of her comebacks. She has no choice but to do what the 318s tell her to, but she does most of the tasks defiantly and only as a way to buy her time so she can come up with a better way to get her notebook back. I think Clarice and Marissa are great secondary characters. They balance each other out because they are polar opposites—although both are pretty naive when it comes to aspects of love. Despite the length of the storyline and how fast everything seems to happen, it is obvious that all three of them takeaway something positive from what they experience that night.

This is a story of friendship, second chances, and conquering your fears—even if you are literally blackmailed into doing so. I’ve read a few of Barnholdt’s books and have enjoyed all of them so far. I highly recommend this as a fun and quick read! ( )

In One Night That Changed Everything the main character “loses” her special notebook. Except, this notebook had everyone of her fears in it and she didn’t lose it, her exboyfriend’s friend stole it.
Eliza’s exboyfriend, Cooper, is in this group called the 318s. The 318s are a group of boys from Eliza’s high school. Basically, when Eliza and Cooper broke up Eliza talked trash on a website about Cooper. Because of what Eliza said, Cooper was unaccepted into his college of choice, Brown University.
For payback, the leader of the 318s, Tyler, makes Eliza do everything that she’s afraid to do that she wrote in her notebook. He makes her do things from dancing with a guy at a club, to telling her older sister about how she kissed her boyfriend from high school.
I really liked this book! Although it was an easy read, it had a good plot and it was a real page turner! It wasn’t too long, or too short. Overall, it was a really good book and I liked it a lot!

When Eliza Sellman was in ninth grade, two years ago, her dad found out he was getting a job transfer and her family was going to move. Eliza was shy and not so confident about her body, she took that opportunity to start a list in her private notebook of all the things she planned on doing when she moved. She had always been afraid to… wearing a miniskirt and asking guys to dance; singing karaoke in front of strangers; posting a photo of herself on her Facebook wall in a bikini. She'll never know because the transfer fell through and they didn't move. But Eliza kept adding her goals and secret fears to the list in the notebook.
Now it's two years later, and now Eliza has had and lost her first boyfriend. But this was more than your average breakup. Turns out the sweet and cute Cooper she was dating was only dating her as a stunt. Eliza got her revenge by posting some pretty nasty stuff about Cooper online. That posting has had major consequences and now Cooper and his buddies have stolen her private notebook and won't give it back until she does all the things on her list in one night. It's torture, until Eliza steals something from the boys she knows they'll want to trade her the notebook back. What starts out as a night of humiliation, turns into a night of revelations as Eliza learns what Cooper was really thinking when they dated, the real reason he's stolen her notebook.
This book was a definite girl drama type book. There were some sappy love parts that I really didn’t enjoy at times. I think the author did a good job at writing this story. At some parts I was bored and wanting to know what was going to happen next. the way the story ended was amazing and I would defiantly want to read this again. The book was very good very all and I give it a 4 out of 5.