Review: A great coming of age story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2014
This was a coming of age novel that takes place during the freshman year of college for Harper and Tuck.  Harper is the independent woman, traumatized by family events that occurred while she was in high school.  She moves across the country as soon as she is 18 yr old and is determined to start life anew.  She pays her own way, works hard in her college classes and her part time job in a bar.  She meets bad boy, Tucker, and they begin a tenuous friendship.  The story takes place over the spring semester of college and chronicles their friendship that turns into a romance.  They slowly learn each other’s secrets as their relationship grows, allowing for healing and the ability to move on beyond their past scars.  I like how the relationship was allowed to evolve.  There was no insta love nor insta sex.  The story was well written and the secondary characters were interesting (the epilogue indicated that there will be more books in this series with one of those characters.  There were some passages in the book that seemed repetitious (I felt that the integrity of the story would have been the same if the book were a little shorter).  Other than that, I really enjoyed this author’s work and look forward to more from her.