Review: Cross My Heart
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2014
This was a fantastic book from the very beginning to the end. It reminded me greatly of Cruel Intentions which was based on Dangerous Liasons. Both of them started with a wager or a bet. Kaitlyn Laurent has spent years feeling nothing, wondering if she even had a heart. She starts feeling something when she first sets eyes on the new teacher, who is 10 years older than her. Will Tennant is British and he is the new English Literature teacher and he is in charge of the drama department for a play. This is the story about just because you have money does not mean you have no problems. Money doesn't stop bad things from happening. Kaitlyn feels trapped in her life. Her father has tons of money and he's head of a company that owns lots of expensive stores. He expects her to go to Yale and then later take over his company. She wants to be free, but her father has made it where she doesn't get a trust fund that the only way she can get money is from him. Kaitlyn's mother left about 10 years earlier, she left with a Yacht seller and her father remarried a vapid woman with a son, Marius, that was a classmate. Marius is a playboy throughout the book but I always felt there was more to him and I found out in the end that I was right. Kaitlyn was a very deep and complex character who I believe had so much more to her than she saw in herself. She believed herself to be a monster or to be really bad. She was human and made mistakes that caused some bad things to happen but she did some really good things and just wanted a different life. In many ways, I really liked Tyler and wished there could have been more for him but I think in the end he got what he greatly deserved. He was a really good character and he was a wonderful friend for Kaitlyn.This is a must read and so worth it!!!