Reviewed by ladygrey on
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.)
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 10 January, 2014: Finished reading
- 10 January, 2014: Reviewed