Never an adherent to the cozier conventions of teenage fiction, Mary Stolz has given us another of her provocative novels [with "Pray Love, Remember"]—this time about a girl who isn't sure what she wants but knows quite well what she doesn't want…. On first acquaintance, Dody is not an entirely agreeable person, but she is very real in her uncertainties, her paradoxes and in her fierce desire to escape the mediocrities of the Plattstown pattern….

All Mrs. Stolz' novels have been distinguished by a mature approach to the problems of young people but this is the most challenging and the best of them all. (p. 50)

Ellen Lewis Buell, in The New York Times Book Review (© 1954 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), November 7, 1954.

Miss Stolz remembers teen-age emotions well, and always chooses problems acutely important to that age. She has often touched on the theme...