Review: In The Minority On This One
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2014
With all of the Facebook buzz about this book I could not wait to get my hands on it and luckily I won it in a blog giveaway and got it pretty quickly after its release.  Disappointed isn't the right word for what I am feeling about Used, more like unfinished.  Like time was invested and I didn't get the return I was hoping for.First off I loved the names Denver, Greer, Austin and Ransom and once you read about the characters, the names just fit them to a tee.  Denver has been dealt a crappy hand in life.  Her dad split and her mom is way to into her next boyfriend or husband to care about Denver and what she does.  Denver has known Greer her whole life, they have been best friends since they day they were born, and now it has morphed into something else.  With her low self esteem, Denver doesn't think she is relationship material and strikes up an odd deal with her bestie Greer when they are teenagers.  The parameters of the deal are a bit too much for them to handle and it turns into more, something more that Denver needs to get away from.  She fears she will poison Greer because she can't give him what he wants.  Denver heads off to college one way and Greer the other.  They need the separation to see who they are apart.  Denver needs a fresh start without her past following her and that is what she gets until Greer shows up at the same college.Greer loves Denver no questions asked, as bad as she thinks she is, he loves her unconditionally.  Greer goes to the same college as Denver because he can't live without her, he wants her back no matter how little she is able to give him.  Hoping the distance made the heart grow fonder, Greer makes another play for Denver.Ransom is just on the sidelines of the Greer and Denver relationship.  Waiting for things to fall apart, Ransom makes his presence known to Denver, and Greer as well.  Ransom is a man of few words, letting his reputation precede him and not correcting anybody about it. His emotions are heard to read unless you are his best friend Pete or cousin Austin.  Who by the way, injects the humor in this book.  After Ransom, he is my favorite character.Of course with a set up like this things were bound to get ugly.  At 50% of the book I was wondering when something was going to happen.  We are on the past makings of Denver and Greer for quite a while, almost too long for me.  I read at the end of the book Lynetta Halat felt that Greer and Denver's story needed to be told in full, however I felt that the more interesting relationship was Ransom and Denver.  Sure I liked getting to know the ups and downs of Greer and Denver, but it just got to be a bit tedious hearing Denver tell Greer she wasn't good enough for him and that is why she constantly used him.When Ransom and Denver started to hang out my interest was peaked and then the book was over.  It felt unfinished to me, as I was more interested on the Denver/Ransom angle than the Denver/Greer one, because it was already played out in my mind.  Ransom has a back story and we learned little to nothing about it before the "to be continued" card was played.  The next one is out in April and I want to read it as this Ransom character seems to have some shady going on that I want to know about.