Review: Good characters. Entertaining read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2013
Surfer-girl Logan comes to LA for her freshman year of USC from Miami where she grew up, mostly, with her divorced Dad. But the early part of her child, and every summer since, has been spent in LA with her selfish, A-list actress mother. So celebrity is not something she's unused to when she meets hot, superstar, 20 year old, actor Jase at her childhood friends', Garrett and Ethan, party.Her lack of the kiss-ass star-struck fandom which Jase usually encounters with women, allows him to relax around her and be the "real" Jase instead of his movie star persona. Surprised he is so nice and "normal", she is attracted to more than just his incredible good looks, and they embark on a semi-secret relationship.I like this book. It reminded me A LOT of the "Between the Lines" series by Tamara Webber. If you liked that, you'll definitely like this.The characters are pretty believable. Logan wasn't a whiner, she was cool. I liked that she surfed and wasn't one of the scarecrow-thin fashion victims you usually see around the industry. Although we never saw much of the effect her relationship had on her at school. I can't believe nobody knew what was going on when there were photographs of her in gossip magazines with different people. Actually, you almost never see her in school or class or anything on campus except in her dorm room. It would have been fun if her roommate had dragged her to a sorority party or...something. Never mind the fact that USC is in a terrible part of town and there could have been other problems that cropped up, but whatever. That wasn't the thrust of the story so, it's fine.Speaking of "thrust", lol, there isn't much sex in this book. There's moments of intense sexual innuendo, discussion of a rape, an attempted rape, there's a lot of sex going on, somewhere. However, Logan comes to school a virgin and she and Jase do everything but, if you kwim. It wasn't a problem for me in the story, this is just FYI.So anyway, it's not the MOST enthralling plot ever, but it was entertaining, not many typos or grammatical errors, and very likable characters. Although why a celebrity, who claims he wants to stay out of the paparazzi's sights, would drive a Maserati everywhere--it's kind of ridiculous.The ending is rather abrupt--no epilogue. But according to the author's blog, the continuation of their story plus Ethan's story is coming out 4/2013 so I guess I can wait a couple of weeks.Hopefully there will be a LOT of Logan and Jase and not just all Ethan because otherwise, I'm going to feel cheated. I want to see them together in public for real. And you don't really see that in this first book.Would I recommend this book? YesWould I read more by the author? YesEagerly waiting the sequel. :)