I Now Believe

I bought True Believer because:
1) It's YA literature
2) It has the National Book Award gold seal and the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature silver seal, which rarely happens!
3) It was only 75 pesos!

Even though:
1) I didn't like the cover art
2) The story didn't seem that interesting
3) It was a second novel in the Make Lemonade Trilogy, meaning, I have to look for the first book and read it before I could start reading this ('cause I'm OC like that).

So I...
1) Kept it in my pile (I'm a recovering Tsundoku)
2) Never attempted to read it and...
3) Eventually forgot about it.

Cover art; Discounted price; An even more discounted price; Date I bought it (yup, it's been on the shelf for that long!)

Buuuut
I had just finished reading two John Green books and craved for stories similar to those, so I started reading Why We Broke Up on the Mini. But because the Mini isn't my sole property and can't use it as I please, I picked up True Believer as my last resort.

Long story short
I checked the first and third books of the trilogy and was relieved that they didn't look like something I would enjoy. Unlike this one, both books had no awards, although the cover art (for the first book, especially) looked better. Because if it weren't for the awards of this particular book, I wouldn't keep going.

Lesson Learned
I chanced upon a rather beautiful book but ignored it and kept looking for something I thought would make me understand the story better. But I digress. 'Meant to be'-ness isn't exclusive (Yeah, I really just had to use that non-word), it happens to even the littlest of things (including books) and if the Universe hands you a second novel in a trilogy with double major awards and costs only one-fourth of its original price, ask no questions and read the crap out of it.