Review: Smooth Sailing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
It has come to this: a college romance story usually has a massive crisis.  Things slowly get started, they heat up, the flame catches and then wham!  An old irresistible girlfriend appears, an old hookup shows up with a pregnancy scare, a debt collector needs one last drug sale, a step-mother threatens to go public about past liaisons.  As I read through the love story of UNC students Liam and Allison, I kept feeling a sense of dread.  Partly that impression is supported by the text -- Allison thinks Liam will lose interest and dump her (which says more about her insecurities than about Liam, who makes every possible effort to make her happy.).  But this book stays the course with no tricky surprises.  It's been a while since I read about a girl who doesn't really care about being in college and has no dreams for her own future beyond being a wife and motherhood.  And scrap-booking.