[Forever …] is a very explicit account of a teenage love-affair written in the style of a magazine story, peppered with the three dots that used to be left for the imagination to fill in although in this case nothing whatever is left to the imagination…. All the right messages are put over, about responsibility and birth-control and not having abortions and illegitimate babies, but all the same I think it is pornography and so a limiting rather than a widening of experience. It suggests patterns, it imposes expectations. (p. 335)

Dorothy Nimmo, in The School Librarian, December, 1976.

Maintaining a strictly neutral moral tone, unless acceptance is synonymous with approval, this story of young love [Forever …] is surely the frankest exposition we have yet had from America. True, it is "a novel for young adults" and the protagonists are in their later teens, but it will without doubt be pored...