Review: First couple of paragraphs didn't grab me, but it got better
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 29, 2013
It was my first day of college at the University of Nevada, Reno, the beginning of a new chapter in my life. Excited to see what lay in store for me and eager to begin my future, I walked down the crowded hall, looking for my classroom. At twenty years of age I was older than the average freshman, but that was okay. I felt just as young and inexperienced as any eighteen year old."I avoided eye contact with the other students, not liking to draw attention to myself. Out of habit, I reached up to adjust my glasses, but then remembered I had traded them in for contact lenses. I hurried down the hall, worried I would be late for my first class. It was hard enough to be alone in a new city; when I added my lack of familiarity with the campus and my poor sense of direction, the butterflies in my stomach became oversized moths."First couple of paragraphs didn't grab me, but it got better. More telling than showing and it took me a while to bond with the main character. But it's not a bad read.  Just finished a debut novelPurple Moonby a 19 year old that was surprisingly good. I would have given He Loves Me Not five stars if the main character had come across as more flawed.