Review: Absorbing read, but ends on cliffhanger
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2014
Jake and Ally are next door neighbours and have been their entire lives, he's 17 good looking, in a band that's going places he's used to female attention and is treated with awe at school. Ally is 14 she has her own group of friends and will be staring at Jakes school as a freshman this year. Jakes sees Ally and realises she's grown up, he feels an attraction towards her he doesn't understand, Ally's had a crush on one of her friends Matt for ages but once she sees Jake he's all she can think about. This is a book about young love made more difficult by circumstances, family and friends.I read the first part of this book before checking out the reviews simply because I was on holiday at the time and it was easier this worked out well since one of the reviews basically tells you how it ends and I don't think I would have otherwise have started this, anyway by this point I was committed so I stuck with it and I'm so glad I did although I must admit I found it difficult to get into in places but that's because I read fairly quickly but due to interruptions this book took me ages to get through, not the books fault.Once I'd got reading I really enjoyed this book and felt deeply for the characters involved, I looked for more work by this author, a friend had already pointed out Skid Out which is about 50 pages long but it turns out it's just the start of this book so a taster really I'd just approached them the wrong way round. The next book Broken Notes isn't predicted to be out until April 2014 so I've a bit of a wait to find out what happens next, but this is well worth a read.Just one thing, I do have a thing for book covers and I don't think this one works at all, he's all wrong it wasn't until I wrote this review that I saw the cover otherwise I would have pictured him as Jake and that wouldn't have worked for me.