Review: "I...I Love You Lila"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 30, 2013
“I…I love you Lila”The Temptation of Lila and Ethan Jessica SorensenOut of the Ella and Micha series this is my favorite book.  Lila and Ethan are the best friends of Ella and Micha and in the first two books they were basically in the background but with some hints of things that could be coming.  That’s why when I saw this book was about them I was super thrilled.Lila Summer from all outward appearances was rich, beautiful, confident and happy go lucky.  But she was anything but.  Coming from a very dysfunctional family who obviously had their priorities messed up and values totally skewed,Ethan Gregory was the polar opposite of Lila and her family.  I would say he came from a middle to lower income family, also dysfunctional, with a drug dependent abusive father and a mother that took the abuse.Lila and Ethan both had some major insecurities going on.  Both had built solid walls around their hearts and neither really knew what it felt like to be loved.From the time they first met there was something there between them but they fought so hard not to have feelings and tried very hard to keep things on a friend basis.  As the story progresses and Ethan comes to Lila’s rescue something starts happening with their brick walls, putting Ethan into a tailspin.  When Lila’s emotions start surfacing and she starts spiraling out of control she without realizing it overdoses on her pills.  When Ethan finds her and takes her to the hospital I think this is the turning point were his walls start to crumble.  He could have lost her.  Ethan brings Lila to his place and helps her get clean.  But he still has this inner turmoil and guilt about a past girlfriend London.  He’s torn between London and Lila so he thinks.  He finally goes to see London to get his closure and when he does it’s not what he expected.  He realizes then he already got his closure when he decided he wanted to be with Lila.I totally loved this book and their story.  You really need to read to understand just how bad things were for these two growing up.  One of my favorite parts was when Ethan finally, finally tells Lila and I quote “I…I Love you Lila.” I give this read 5* and I really would like to see more with Lila and Ethan.