Review: Reads like it was written by a catholic high school student.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2013
Chloe has been secretly in love for years with her soon-to-be stepbrother Zack. It all started in elementary school when she founded the Unofficial Zack Warren Fan Club. But now, thanks to her friend, Lana, the fan club is still going strong in college. Chloe is mortified and tries to stop it before Zack finds out. When Zack's years of teasing Chloe turn out to be camouflage for his own feelings, her fears of discovery escalate. Will he forgive her when he finds out about the club? Does he really care about her even though he throws her mixed signals from every direction? Etc etc.The characters are good. Chloe is intelligent and funny, just like Zack, and they're both totally hot, of course. But they're also both college aged virgins. It's ridiculous. We are supposed to believe that a 21-year-old star pitcher who's probably going to play Major League Baseball is a virgin. Right. I'm tired of all the girls in these books being virgins, too. I know beautiful, 19-year old virgins exist but you'd be more likely to find the 16-year-old teen pregnancy that Chloe's mother was, in this country. Not that I think that's a better situation, but WHY is a woman's value so frequently tied to her "purity" or "virtue"?? It's offensive and insulting.In any case, that wouldn't be as much of a problem if the dialogue wasn't so repetitive, stilted and unrealistic. (Plus a lot of typos) There's a few predictable and boring skirmishes between the "bad guy" and Zack, in defense of Chloe. Mostly, Chloe comes off as weak and frivolous and Zack seems to be a self-appointed moral barometer for everyone. And, after years of tiptoeing around each other (and some decent relationship tension/set up)  it's all thrown away with an anticlimactic "Be my girlfriend." There's no realization or surprise, mutual-chemistry-moment other than one, BRIEF kiss.I don't mind if there's no sex (there really isn't). But then there has to be a satisfying romance with angst and a build up and release....are you getting the picture? LIKE sex but in story telling. Well, that's not here.This book is a let down.And there are more books with similar titles by this author so I assume the formula will continue with slightly different stories but the same result.I won't be reading them to find out.