The Distance Between Us by Kasie West

The Distance Between Us

by Kasie West

Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers learned early that the rich are not to be trusted. And after years of studying them from behind the cash register of her mom's porcelain doll shop, she has seen nothing to prove otherwise. Enter Xander Spence - he's tall, handsome, and oozing rich. Despite his charming ways and the fact he seems to be one of the first people who actually gets her, she's smart enough to know his interest won't last. Because if there's one thing she's learned from her mother's warnings, it's that the rich have a short attention span. But just when Xander's attention and loyalty are about to convince Caymen that being rich isn't a character flaw, she finds out that money is a much bigger part of their relationship than she'd ever realized. With so many obstacles standing in their way, can they close the distance to each other? A perfect mixture of bittersweet and charming, this new paperback original from house author Kasie West is an endearing romantic comedy that will steal your heart.

Reviewed by ladygrey on

4 of 5 stars

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I have to admit I was a little scared of this book. Because every blog I read absolutely loved it. But it's kind of easy to love.

It's a really sweet, simple story. I actually really liked Caymen even though she jumped to some very dumb conclusions again and again. But I love a good dry sense of humor. A lot of YA heroines are proud of being sarcastic but they're really just snippy. Caymen was actually funny. And I liked how Xander came to see right through her. I liked how he called her out when she needed him to and how she was able to be honest with him. And I really like how he made me laugh. 4 chapters in I actually laughed out loud and I was hooked.

I felt like the story got a little derailed at the end. But that was only because so much of it had been so good. And it wrapped up really too fast also. I was almost looking to see if there was a sequel just because I didn't think she could really deal with everything she stirred up in just 10 pages. Unfortunately, she did but it deserved more.

And some of her actions are confusing or incomplete. Like he's in front of her and another is behind her and on the way to the thing behind her she stumbled into him. How does that work? But those are also easy enough to ignore if you just rewrite the scene in your head a little or pretend you didn't read the action that never gets finished. I don't know how her editor missed them.

But as far as romances go its full of fun flirting instead of crazy intense insta-love and amusing dialog and a really sweet guy. Nothing to be scared of at all.

(There were a ton of great lines in this book but I didn't write any of them down so here's a mildly amusing one I scrounged up. I'll replace it later with a better one.)

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