Review: It's a cute story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2013
This was a cute book, but it just didn't keep my attention like I had hoped it would. I think there could have been some more character development and some of the scenes didn't feel like they were fully described. Amy has had a pretty hard life since her father passed away and she's been raising her brother all on her own, but now her brother has left for college and she's opening up a stationary store. She's thrilled about opening it up and all of the great clientele that she'll get. Her old flame from high school, Hunter, is back in town. He broke up with her a week before Prom and she just hasn't really gotten over that heart break. He ends up running into her and asking her to come over to a barbeque they are having at his parents house. She agrees, but is reluctant to open up old wounds. While at the party she meets Ryan and is instantly attracted to him. They end up meeting again and then going out on several dates. Amy has never fallen this deep and this fast for anyone and it scares her. But now Hunter is coming around more and is wanting to try to re-establish a relationship as well. It seems like one of Hunter's ex-girlfriends keeps giving her dirty looks too. Amy doesn't know what to do. She has a shared past with Hunter which makes it easy to hang around him, but she knows that if she had just met him, that Ryan would win her heart hands down. The history is the only thing keeping Hunter on the table of options for her.I hope this doesn't cause too much of a spoiler for this book, but this book just didn't have the "chase" that I like to see. Amy gives in to easy to Ryan and their first time having sex just isn't in the book, literally. She goes out to dinner with him one night and then the next chapter starts with her waking up and going on in her head about how great the night before with Ryan was and how it was the experience of a lifetime. I kind of wanted to be in on that. So after that point the book turned me off a little. The book did pick up after a certain point and kept me a little intrigued. I give this book 3 stars.