Review: 3 Stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2014
I am admittedly a sucker for the “best friends” turned lovers story line and it is even better when they grew up together and didn’t realize they felt this way. Yes, I am a big cheese ball. But these storylines, if done right, are a guilty pleasure for me and I love feeling like I am transported into an episode of Dawson’s Creek. So, when I read the synopsis for Windows, I was immediately interested.Melinda “Lindy or Lindy Lou” James and Lucas Beck grew up living next to each other and were always friends. Although when Lindy became the overweight, glasses-wearing, insecure teenager and Lucas became the most popular boy in school their friendship was only behind closed doors. I had a real problem with this and didn’t really understand why Lindy didn’t. She was okay with letting Lucas come over every night through her bedroom window and talking to her until they fell asleep, yet she didn’t tell him how bad it hurt her when he ignored her every other moment. What kind of best friend is that? Then when he betrays her in the worst way, she finally gets the nerve to end their friendship and leaves for 4 years to go away to college.Now Lindy is back in town and looks completely different. Lucas is ready to finally admit to her and everyone else exactly how he feels for her. I felt like this is where things were not only rushed but just got to be too much. There was a whole lot of drama (trying to keep it spoiler free) and this caused some strain on their relationship. A bunch of other characters were brought it, some that were needed and some that definitely were not, and then a “mystery” was brought in I think to try and keep readers guessing. But personally, I don’t think any of that was even needed.There were parts of this story that were definitely cute and even some hot scenes, but unfortunately for the most part it just kind of fell flat for me.