Review: 4 Whiplash Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2013
Whiplash. Yes, I have whiplash from reading this book. I love you. I hate you. I need you. Go away. No, wait...come back...I love you again. It's all so high school. Oh. Yeah. No wonder...It's set in high school. This is the best kind of whiplash.Tessa is a typical high school senior. She plays field hockey. She has best friends. She has a great family. Until her parents tell her they are taking a break from each other, a bunch of bitchy girls and one very sexy football player transfer into her school, and her perfectly fine life now includes stitches, hot and heavy nights and very snarky girls.Lucas is the new quarterback. He had a reputation as a player at his old school. Now he is at Tessa's school and has his eye on her. Tessa is not sure how she feels about Lucas. Her brother seems to like him, but he is just so arrogant. Like reallllly arrogant.Tessa and Lucas fall hard for each other but there are lots of other distractions. Like his old playa ways. And was he ever a playa. But he wants to be a better person for Tessa. Unfortunately that may not be possible. Remember those distractions? They are very distracting.There are several couples in the story and you love all of them. But none mess with each other and with you like Tessa and Lucas. Can they overcome his past? Or his present? And the sudden appearance of a line of hot guys wanting to get the know Tessa better. Will her dad beat the crap of Lucas or embrace him? And will the real Tessa please stand up? Is she sweet, a vixen, a bitch? Yes to all of those.And the ending. It doesn't. This is a nice long book but does not wrap up. It leaves you with the Where Is My Ending Feeling. More whiplash. Ms Fields assures us that she is going to give us an ending. But I think she likes to torture us and much as her characters. And she seems to LOVE to torture her characters. I love her. I hate her. No wait...come back and write some more. Please.