Review: Sweet & funny love story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2013
ARC Review:"Promise" is life lesson in self reliance & following one's chosen path even if it means leaving your life behind. Wyn is a gypsy (think TLC My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding) tight clothes, gobs of make-up big hair and all. Wyn fights these stroyotypical gypsy ways & wants to finish high school to for fill her dream of becoming a nurse. Linc uses the opportunity of an assigned volunteer project to get to know Wyn. Although she's intrigued, Wyn knows Linc a gorger (non gypsy) would have no place in her world. The more time these two spend together the more they are drawn to each other. Soon, Wyn is finds herself sneaking around her parents & four brothers just for the opportunity to see Linc.Their relationship is pushed to the brink when Wyn's father tells her she's been promised to a gypsy boy named Shay. Wyn finds herself standing in a hurricane of purple brides maids dresses & a monstrosity of a wedding dress. Feeling desperate & trapped, Wyn begs her parents to let out of the engagement. Her father informs that dissolving the promise would leave her ossersized from the gypsy community & disownership from her own family. Now Wyn is faced with the biggest decision of her life......marring a man she doesn't love in order to keep her family or following her heart to be with Linc & leaving her family forever.What I thought:I loved this book!! The plot was so amazing & believable! I really felt emerssed into the gypsy culture through Wyn's family. I absolutely adored Wyn!! She was strong & went after what she wanted without being whinny or disrespectful. Then there's Linc *sigh* is undying love for Wyn was truly beautiful to watch. This is an inspiring love story with a strong life lesson the reader will hold close for a long time to come!