Review: Not bad
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2014
This is a coming-of-age story about a young lady who wants to escape the challenges of her real life (sick mother, irresponsible younger brother, absent father, small-town grapevine) and go to college. But when she comes home for Christmas break she finds she can't ignore the problems at home. Fortunately, the geek from her childhood has matured into a hot guy who happens to be kind, compassionate, and handy.The story isn't bad, but I had difficulty connecting with the characters. I never really felt empathy for them or understood why they reacted to things the way they did. Also disturbing, as another reviewer pointed out, is the spelling of caramel, both in the title and throughout the book. The only place I've seen the spelling Carmel is when it's the name of a city in California and in Indiana, so at first I thought it was a play on words and the characters would end up in one of those cities. But that didn't happen and I'm curious as to why the misspelling was allowed to stay.