Review: A great NA read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2012
"But even though the choices we make can have an impact and consequences, it doesn't mean it has to be a bad thing. Sometimes the choices we make can be the best thing that ever happened to us. They can be worth every tear, every laugh, and every smile because when it's all said and done it's the ones that make life worth living that really matter."THE STORY17 year old Gracie made a bad choice in the heat of the moment.Unprotected sex with her high school quarterback boyfriend Nick.Nick has a football scholarship for college and the plan was that Gracie was going with him to start their life.Until she tells Nick about pregnancy.Grace has made the choice not to have an abortion.Nick makes the choice to walk away.From Grace and the baby.Gracie has made the choice to finish high school, after all this is her senior year. She should be preparing for parties, prom and college.Not becoming a single mother. But she is determined to do this.Gracie is scared but has a great supporting cast of friends and family.Her best friends Meg and Mason is everything she could want.Her parents (having had her in high school as well) support her decision 100% and her younger brother Tyler thinks she walks on water.School is already hard enough as a teenager without being pregnant to the quarterback. She is constantly tired and emotional and rumors and whispers get to her. One specific cheerleader is just a .. really not nice person!It gets too much for Grace and she ends up crying at her locker one day.While crying she hears someone ask if she is OK. She looks up and meets/starts chatting to Carter Jenkins, the principals son. Instant attraction to the GQ Model looking Barista.She then makes the choice to get a job to save a bit of cash before the baby comes. Of course she chooses to apply at the local coffee shop where the one and only Carter works.Carter and Gracie start out as friends, but the more times they spend together they realise they want more.Grace chooses not to tell Carter about the pregnancy just yet.She want him to like him for her. She also doesn't want to be rejected again.As fate would have it Carter does find out after Gracie passes out at work and Carter comes to the rescue.He is 100% cool with it. He wants Gracie, if she comes with a baby then so be it.That's his choiceHe has made some bad choices in the past and is a reformed bad boy, but is trying to be a better person. He becomes Gracies rock.They choose to get together and are happy until Nick shows up 5 months into the pregnancy.He's made a mistake.The wrong choice.He wants Gracie back.Can Gracie throw away what she has with Carter, to be a family with Nick?What will her choice be?MY HONEST OPINIONI really liked this. I managed to finish it one sitting.Gracie is beautiful. The whole book is written in her POV. So we get all the ups and downs of the pregnancy, the abandonment from Nick, the bullying at school, her innermost thoughts, the highs that come with Carter, and the comedic relief of her train of thought.Meg - the best friend. She was awesome. Wouldn't hesitate to do anything for Grace and also the comedic relief when it was needed.Carter- *sigh* the reformed bad boy. Who doesn't want of those? He really is an awesome guy!Parents - AWESOME! Her Mum especially, having been through the same thing she is 100% there for Gracie and all her questions.Nick- When he abandons Gracie. I hated him. then the more the book went on I still didn't like him but I did feel sorry for him.I do need to advise that there is a secondary story going on this book that I do not want to spoil it. But lets just say when its dropped?BOOM!I am assuming that more will be revealed in the next book?There was some errors in it but not enough to actually notice or to have an effect on your thoughts. For example an " at the start of a sentence etc. I know some people are picky about that and it makes them mad, but I thought it was fine. I just felt like I should point it out before people start talking smack because of it! lolThere is one sex scene in this. I know weird huh? book about Teen pregnancy and only one?! but I thought it was greatly done. Just enough to know what was going on but in no great detail. Good old fashioned Clean YA/NA whatever genre it is ha ha .. Ok so not so clean as Meg swears like a sailor.All in all I thoroughly enjoyed it. The writing style, the characters, the progression of it all. At some heartfelt confessions it was a little cheesy, but as a fan as cheese it worked for me!it all wrapped up in a HEA that I was happy with but I am unsure where the next one will go as I know this is part one of a trilogy.... Just have to wait and see huh?Annie -WELL DONE on your second book!One thing I didn't get though was... If Gracie was such a caffeine addict why didn't she drink coffee? LOL