Catching Jordan (Hundred Oaks, #1)

by Miranda Kenneally

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Ugh. I wanted this to be another cute, sweet YA contemporary romance because after [a:Kasie West|5027236|Kasie West|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1450586450p2/5027236.jpg] and [a:Kelly Oram|3203095|Kelly Oram|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1455838915p2/3203095.jpg] it's suddenly a genre I like. And I didn't dislike this one because the characters or the story are bad (even though Jordan is really very dense sometimes, like for the first two thirds of the book, which was annoying - oh and the poetry! save me please from the poetry).

But it's not cute and fun when there's a lot of cursing and teenagers having lots of very casual sex. It's not graphic at all which I appreciate but how am I supposed to root for the guy when his method of "coping" is to sleep with every other girl in the story? What's attractive about that? And how realistic is it for the girl to go from never having kissed a boy to sleeping with him a couple of days later?

"Why were you watching me change?"
"Uh, 'cause I'm a guy?" He flips the pillow and slaps it, fluffing it. Then he rolls over and closes his eyes again."

I did really like the secondary characters though. They were funny and sweet and really good friends and teammates. More than anything, I think, they were the reason I kept reading when I almost quit a few times. That and my insatiable need to find out what happens since it's only 281 pages so I could finish it in like 3 hours.