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One Small Thing Hardcover – June 26, 2018

by Erin Watt (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 660 ratings
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author duo of The Royals and When It’s Real comes a sensational new novel about a girl falling for the one boy she should never have met…

Beth’s life hasn’t been the same since her sister died. Her parents try to lock her down, believing they can keep her safe by monitoring her every move. When Beth sneaks out to a party one night and meets the new guy in town, Chase, she’s thrilled to make a secret friend. It seems like a small thing, just for her.

Only Beth doesn’t know how big her secret really is…

Fresh out of juvie and determined to start his life over, Chase has demons to face and much to atone for, including his part in the night Beth’s sister died. Beth, who has more reason than anyone to despise him, is willing to give him a second chance. A forbidden romance is the last thing either of them planned for senior year, but the more time they spend together, the deeper their feelings get.

Now Beth has a choice to make—follow the rules, or risk tearing everything apart…again.
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  1. Print length
    304 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Harlequin Teen
  4. Publication date
    June 26, 2018
  5. Grade level
    7 - 9
  6. Reading age
    13 years and up
  7. Dimensions
    5.69 x 1.06 x 8.5 inches
  8. ISBN-10
    1335017275
  9. ISBN-13
    978-1335017277
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"Watt skillfully dissects an extremely complicated and highly improbable situation to reveal the layers of emotions experienced by Beth and other characters." -Publishers Weekly

"I haven't met an Erin Watt story that I don't love, and One Small Thing is their best yet... I truly love this book. I think it should be required reading for everyone in the early years of high school." –Hypable

"Erin Watt always delivers a high-octane story with plenty of twists. One Small Thing is a journey of love and forgiveness and exploring the boundaries of life. You grow with these characters as they learn how beautiful and difficult life can be." –USA Today "Happily Ever After" Blog

About the Author

ERIN WATT is the pseudonym for New York Times bestselling authors Elle Kennedy and Jen Frederick. The first two novels in Erin Watt's self-published contemporary YA novels in the Royals trilogy--Paper Princess and Broken Prince--each debuted at #1 on the New York Times Young Adult ebook list, and book 3, Twisted Palace, debuted on the New York Times YA series list. Combined, the series has spent more than 26 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Individually, Elle Kennedy is the bestselling author of the self-published Off-Campus New Adult series, as well as the Killer Instincts romantic suspense series for Berkley and Jen Frederick is the bestselling author of author of the Woodlands and Gridiron self-publishedNew Adult series and coauthor of the Hitman romantic suspense series for Berkley.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harlequin Teen; Original edition (June 26, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1335017275
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1335017277
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 7 - 9
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.69 x 1.06 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 660 ratings

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Erin Watt is the brainchild of two bestselling authors linked together through their love of great books and an addiction to writing. They share one creative imagination. Their greatest love (after their families and pets, of course)? Coming up with fun--and sometimes crazy--ideas. Their greatest fear? Breaking up. You can contact them at their shared inbox: authorerinwatt@gmail.com

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4.2 out of 5 stars
4.2 out of 5
660 global ratings
First Book of 2024 & It Was 5⭐️’s!
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First Book of 2024 & It Was 5⭐️’s!
“One Small Thing” by Erin Watt.Tropes: Forbidden Romance, Enemies to Lovers.PubDay: May 28, 2019.Rating: 5⭐️’s for storyline & 1-2🌶️’s for spice.•CHEERS to my first #bookreview for 2024!I thrifted this book at “2nd and Charles” this past NYE for the Buy 5/Get 5 Deal, and I honestly saw it in the YA section, liked the cover, and the synopsis and thought “why not give it a shot”, AND Y’ALL, I LOVED THIS!•I went in with little knowledge of the book or the author and I wish she had more books I could try out. If you want a cute storyline with some real-life elements such as grief, loss, and personal growth, this is for you🎉•Quotes:-Page 22: “I’ve never hit on a guy before. This is going to be disastrous. I spy a row of shot glasses on a table. I grab one and throw it back. With courage I didn’t know I had, I pick up two more shot glasses and carry them over. You look like you need a drink, I say. You look like that was the first shot you ever drank, he says”.-Page 26: “Are you going to kiss me? Yeah. I think so. You okay with that? It’s been a long time for me. Me too. Good. Then we can mess up together”.-Page 69: “I’m sorry for the other night. You regret it? Yes. Because I’m her sister? Yes. But, if I wasn’t her sister, would you regret it? No”.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 5 One Small Thing Stars!
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2018
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Beth has been heavily sheltered by her parents since her older sister died three years ago. She sneaks out to a party the weekend before senior year starts to have a night just for her. To rebel just a little. That’s when she meets Chase. Chase is her little secret, but he has a not so secret, secret of his own. Once she finds out Beth knows she should hate Chase, but she doesn’t. She honestly shouldn’t want anything to do with him, but she does. How do you fall in love with someone you shouldn’t? How do you forgive someone who should be unforgivable in your eyes? Read One Small Thing to see how a pair who shouldn’t be, are.

One Small Thing is ultimately a story about forgiveness, dealing with loss, and finding the bright side when you’re trapped in the dark. Somehow Erin Watt stuffs all of that into a coming of age YA novel tortilla, and boy is it tasty. Beth and Chase are both characters that grow throughout the story, and without each other I doubt the growth would happen. I think this story does a great job showing how people react to death in different ways, and how people forgive or not in different ways. Not only that but the sweet growth of young romance between Chase and Beth is fun to follow.

This story will get under your skin at some points. It will make you a little sad, a lot happy, and will make you think. It will even have you questioning your own morality in regards to forgiveness at some points, and it will also have you cheering the characters on as well.

All in all this is a great YA read. It was really enjoyable, emotional, and entertaining!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Emotional Forbidden YA Romance
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2018
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Beth is tired of all the rules and restrictions her parents enforce on her since her sister's death years before. When she has the opportunity to go to an out of town party and just be herself, not the girl with the dead sister, she jumps at it. Deciding to go out of her comfort zone even more, she finds a cute boy at the party and decides to pursue him. Little does Beth know, the one boy she seems drawn to is the same boy responsible for her sister's death. As she asks herself what is wrong with her to feel drawn to this boy, everyone in her life and town want him gone.

I have been a sucker for the Erin Watt ladies since I read When It's Real the beginning of this year and then got the opportunity to meet them and entirely embarrass myself gushing about just how perfect that book was. Seriously, if you have not read When It's Real and you like contemporary romances, stop what you are doing and get a copy STAT! In case you can't tell, it was a fabulous book. Anyway, when I saw that they had a new standalone YA contemporary read coming out, I was ecstatic.

“You waiting for me is the one small thing that will keep me going.”

I love the idea of "one small thing", it is such a powerful concept and something I think everyone should do (and the most perfect . If we can find one thing every day to be happy about, that makes life worth while.

This was a hot mess of a book and I could not stop reading. I really had no idea what direction Beth was going to take next and I was on pins and needles to discover it.This was such a heartbreaking read, full of forbidden love, grief, forgiveness, personal growth, all kinds of love, hate, angst, assault, abuse and all other things in between- this was not an easy read and not a PG book, fyi. I feel like I was emotionally wrung out, but I would not change anything about it and I want to force all my friends to read it now. I am for sure on an emotional book hangover and I have no idea what to do with myself or what I want to read next.

If you want an emotional read in the best of ways, this should be your next read.
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Sarah Arndt
3.0 out of 5 stars The wonder and greatness of the majority of the book was lost in the lackluster ending.
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2018
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Up until the last maybe ten pages of One Small Thing I was prepared to write an amazing review on how redemptive and healing this book was. I was completely involved in Beth and Chase’s story of love, forgiveness, and trust. However, the end was so dissatisfying and abrupt; it ruined much of the joy I had while reading the rest of the story.

Beth won me over from the off; she seemed to be so alone despite being surrounded by people who cared for her. She was angry and sad and had been so isolated by the way her loved ones were protecting her. When she started acting out, I was 100% there for it. I was pretty impressed by how she’s handled herself, as I’m not sure I’d be able to rein my anger in as well as she did in the same situation. I also appreciated how much she grew and realized other people’s opinions weren’t as important as what she knew to be true.

I wanted to not like Chase, much for the same reasons as Beth wanted, but it was impossible. He was so much more than his past, what the general public thought about him, and what he gave himself credit for. Chase broke my heart with the way he continued to punish himself for something he’d never intended to happen. Once he finally began to accept the connection he felt with Beth, I nearly sighed in relief because I could feel the weight of the world begin to shift slightly off his shoulders.

One Small Thing was a poignant story of those precarious years immediately before adulthood, that time when you need to be your own person yet are still firmly under the control of the adults in your life. It’s a story of looking deeper than the surface, beyond the preconceived notions, to the heart of a person and believing in them because of the goodness found there. It was a story about learning to compromise without sacrificing your needs and when to stand-up against the things you can not abide. I was impressed with how much this story had to say about the human condition and how fallible even the most cautious and concerned people can be.

I do have one major wish for this book, and that would be the lackluster ending. For the entirety of the novel we had a huge workup to a fabulous – if somewhat predictable – climax, then we had no real resolution to any of it. There was an awkward aside in the final chapter I think was supposed to satisfy my need for healing and closure, but it just felt like an afterthought. To me, it seemed like the authors weren’t sure how to balance the essential healing the characters deserved with the poignancy of the rest of the story and decided the synopsized ending was the best option. I just know the greatness of the rest of the book was lost in those last few unsatisfying pages.

Erin Watt has been hit or miss for me. Most of their earlier books are so beautiful, so consuming, I wasn’t able to refrain myself from absorbing every word at an alarming rate. However, their later pieces seem to be missing the magic they’d captured in those first several stories. I had really thought One Small Thing had recaptured that enchantment, but it didn’t quite make it there. I only hope to see them return to their roots and deliver more of those captivating stories that won me over, to begin with.
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Nina Delfs
5.0 out of 5 stars Erin Watt wrote an amazing Story again.
Reviewed in Germany on October 15, 2018
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So a few days after finishing this amazing book i am able to sit downs and write review.
As all know that since i read paper princess i totally fell in love with the style of writing by these tow women. But I can clearly say that these book is totally different from all books they have written till now.
What i really enjoyed about these book had been the serious theme in these book because loss of a person you love and how you go trough it. I'm totally aware of that every person go to grief and guilt. In my eyes Elle and Jen made a good job by showing all the different ways of the characters go through these feelings.
Sometimes i had the feeling that the parents were unable to move on. I know that loosing a child in an accident isn't easy but i think that after a few years you should move on in special way. But i think the authors exactly want to show this and they made it good.
I was also able to connect to chase really fast. Even if we hadn't any chapters from his point of view is thoughts where very understandable.
Elle and Jen also made a really good job by showing us Beth confusion. To me it totally made sense how she acted in her situation.
But the most interesting thing was the development of the relationship between Beth and Chase because of the moral question thats asked here.

Chase was young man who knows what he had done wrong. Also in a special way he knows what is important in life and how to overcome hard situations in live. But he wasn't able to deal with his feelings.

Even if Beth seemed to be really confused in the situation where she had been. She did always what was the right thing in her eyes. She did care much what others are thinking of her.

Conclusion
So these really important intensiv story wich i liked really much gets five of five stars even if there were some things that bothered me a little bit thats not to lost a star because the athors made it that i was able why the characters acted like they did.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Roller coaster ride.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2018
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I loved this story! The plot was genius. Beth is a girl recovering from the loss of her sister three years ago, suffocating under the constant anxiety of her parents need to keep her safe. Then one night changes everything. Beth goes to a party, meets a gorgeous boy and they have sex. Chase the mysterious boy with the world on his shoulders. Chase wants Beth. Beth wants Chase but no one will understand or like these two together. Beth shouldn't want him but she does. Torn between what people expect her to feel and what she really feels deep down, Beth must make a choice, who matters most? This is a story of love, loss, fate, guilt and one girl's ability to see a boy who made a mistake and see an accident as exactly that. Can you love the one person everyone expects you to hate?
I loved this book. It's one of those books that will stay with you for days. Erin is back with another story that pulls you in, captures your heart and Doesn't let go. Just fantastic.
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Megan L.
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
Reviewed in Australia on June 27, 2018
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Gah! I absolutely loved this book! I don’t know how they keep doing this, excellent book after excellent book, but they do.
This book had all the feels. I laughed, I cried, I raged, I was shocked.
I LOVED Chase. So haunted, so trying to do what what’s right.
Beth was so feisty. There were so many times I raged on her behalf. She was so strong but put her emotions on display as well.
This book was everything and I loved it! Read it now!
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Mary
4.0 out of 5 stars Ein Roman mit Suchtpotenzial
Reviewed in Germany on August 7, 2019
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Wieder mal ein schöner Roman von Erin Watt.
Die Story ist so fesselnd, dass ich das Buch kaum aus der Hand legen konnte.

Einen Punkt gibt es jedoch Abzug für den Hauptcharakter Elizabeth. So sehr man teilweise auch mit ihr mitleiden kann, wird es doch 1..2.. Mal zu oft erwähnt, wie schlecht es ihr geht und dass sie ständig zu Unrecht behandelt wird.
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Lotta
2.0 out of 5 stars Pas captivant
Reviewed in France on October 5, 2018
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J'ai bien apprécié d'autres livres d'Erin Watt, mais ce livre n'a pas su me captiver. Tout est évidemment très/trop dramatique, le comportement des parents ridiculement exagéré, Beth peu attachant, puis elle jette son dévolu sur Chase... une histoire peu romantique.
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