Review: One long rollercoaster ride.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
Hold on to your seats, because Blue Love is a one long rollercoaster ride.Tessa Ross is a good girl who tries to fight off the discomfort she’s feeling with her growing body, the sudden attention boys were giving her and most especially, the growing attraction to the bad boy Lucas Links. He might be hot, popular, arrogant and a walking sex-on-sticks, but she would never be a notch on his post.Lucas, on the other hand, may appear to have everything – car, popularity, clothes and women but deep inside, he was broken. His family is dysfunctional – his mother is an alcoholic and his absentee father tries to buy his love by giving him expensive things. Everything was just a game to him, especially when it comes to girls and sex – until Tessa Ross came into the picture. He knew then, that she was different. That he will try to make things work – just as when he thought he was good enough for her, his past came back with a vengeance.This book is filled with twists and turns that had my jaws dropping every now and then. Here I thought everything would be okay, then another one would sprout. Most of them you would not see coming, and there were times when I wished that both of them be separated – because they needed to be away from each other! It’s heartbreaking to see them hurt, and make stupid decisions – then continuously repeat the cycle.I didn’t expect it was THAT long, and it would end that way. My heart was aching uncontrollably somewhere in between, here are two people who are perfect for each other and yet circumstances, not of their doing, is driving them apart. It was painful to watch them let go, yet you can’t be help but be proud of the person that they become – because as the pages continues, and as the story goes, you will see the characters grow and develop.There were great secondary characters that you have to meet as well – there’s Alex, Phoebe, Tommy and Jade. I even like Toby and Ben – and if I don’t just love bad boys who are off to being good, I would have wanted ANY of them to be with Tessa. After all that she had experienced with Lucas, she needed her own HEA, with or without him. But I’m giving Lucas a chance…Blue Love is an amazing coming of age story about two very different people, who have found love in each other, tried to hold on to it, but painfully allowed themselves to let go. But it doesn’t end here – so yes, you have to expect what the ending is. It might be something that will drive you nuts, but it’s something that will keep you looking forward for the next book in the series.★ARC Copy was given in exchange for an honest review.★