Review: So Many Good Things!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
This is my first Jessie Evans book and I think I should be picking more up. This book was unexpected. This book was dark and sexy, as well as, light and funny. This book had a little bit of everything. It was definitely beautiful and heartbreaking no matter what trouble the main characters where getting into.Caitlin is trying to keep her family together. Her mother left, her sister left her sister in the house and hasn’t been seen since, and now she is trying to feed four mouths and keep a roof over their head. She meets Gabe and he offers a rush, a way to get her hands on money, deal out some karma, and have some fun with a sexy guy. She fights it. Stealing, even, from people who deserve it is wrong. But she can’t resist for long. And a beautiful relationship begins.Gabe can’t promise more than the summer. He wants to give Caitlin one summer that is full of an adrenaline rush that will hopefully last a lifetime. Gabe wants to give her all that he can. He wants to help with money, fun, and he wants to be a part of a real family. Something his parents never gave him. The only problem is he falls in love. He falls in love with Caitlin, her siblings, and the life he can’t have.“I've never been good at doing what I should. I don't resist Temptation, I throw him a big, loud party and invite a Trouble to DJ.”I am getting emotional just writing the review for this book. I mean you can kind of guess what Caitlin and Gabe’s one big problem is while reading but when you have prepared yourself for that ending Jessie Evans throws you a curve ball. She gives you hope that the story can change.I loved the characters. Gabe and Caitlin where perfectly flawed together. Together they made each other the best versions of themselves they could be. (weird since there is a lot of law breaking) But that is also the hardest part. They make each other better but they can’t have a future. They have the summer and that’s all life can give them. I thought her brothers and niece where a good addition as well.I am not sure how I feel about the cliffhanger. Gabe is either the biggest jerk ever because he left her thinking the worse, or his parents are monsters for the same reason. The story didn’t feel like it needed to be dragged out into another book. I will read it; don’t get me wrong, this one was great. I just wish the story had a conclusion in this one. This book was so much more than I thought it was going to be. Give it a try you won’t regret it!“In my heart, I know she’d want to do it. She’d want to know that I wasn’t alone, that the most important person in my life was with me. And she has to know that person is her, that she is…everything.”