Review: Not my cup of tea.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2013
SPOILER WARNING:I almost quit reading a couple times but the phrase "it's only a novella" kept running through my mind.  When I was thirteen, I might have liked it.  I didn't care as much about character and relationship development back then.  That was back when I was a big fan of R.L. Stine's Fear Street series.  The main character always quickly falls in love with a boy she barely knows in that series, just like in this story.  Then I suppose another strike against this story was that I wasn't a fan of Lucy.  I get that she was supposed to be a daring free-spirit with a heart of gold but she didn't quite pull it off.  At one point, she admits without shame that she usually pulls random stunts that upset people but she doesn't really care because she knows they will forgive her.  She reflected on this as she considered deliberately misleading people into believing that she and Jackson where making out all over the place... just for kicks... I don't find that to be an adorable character trait.  Of course I will admit she does have some redeeming qualities but mostly I think she just wasn't well written.  The final strike was the end.  The author apparently doesn't believe in sex before marriage, which is totally fine, but she does believe in solving the problem by getting married at 18.I suppose it's possible that I'm being too hard on this book, but I don't think so.