Review: Awesome hero, but too short and undeveloped for the price.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2012
An innocent young women trapped with her over-zealous, abusive parents wants desperately to live a "normal" life. Instead she bikes to bible college and is afraid to breath wrong, else her controlling father beats her. Until one day she is caught spying on the punk kid who visits her neighbor to buy pot. Their first awkward exchange she falls and hurts herself, and he's there to care for her. Their unlikely friendship blossoms into a relationship.I found this short little romance to be adorable. Van, the "punk" kid, is HOT. Adorable, sexy, patient and deep. I loved that he was attracted to nerdy little Evie. And that he had the foresight to force patience on her. In her eagerness to experience everything all at once, she is ravenous for him. But he realizes she's been hurt and neglected, and makes her slow down. Cutie. Charlotte Stein imagined up a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful hero. Just so refreshing to read about him.So why the three stars? Two major issues. I wish I had realized the story was only 150 pages. I'm not sure I would have dished out the $6. It was a really cute short story, but I read it in a little over an hour. That's just a little disappointing. Also, it felt juvenile. Maybe because it was about teenagers? If this 150 page segment was the intro to an actual novel (that continues after the pair take off for their life together) I bet it would evolve into a 5 star piece. The kiddos would grow up and face some challenges and there would be more meat to chew on.