Review: Who Can Forget Their First Love?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
Some people meet their first love when they’re thirteen, others when they’re thirty-three. In the novelette, It Started With a Kiss, Georgie Bird and Nate Adams meet when they’re eight. Georgie is the awkward, gangly new girl and Nate is the coolest yet nicest boy in their second grade class.  Nate and Georgie were so inseparable that at age ten, Nate proposed to Georgie in a closet. “When we grow up do you wanna get married to me? If we get married we can live in the same house and we’d never have to have sleepovers again” (10). They didn’t officially become boyfriend/girlfriend until they were fifteen. “For Georgie’s part, once she’d discovered kissing Nate to be akin to an afternoon in the company of a huge slab of chocolate fudge, she’d never looked back” (48). But several years later, their sweet romance took a sour turn when Georgie decided to attend university while Nate chose to take a year long trip around the world. They don’t meet up again until twelve years later “if you rounded off the three months, five days, and oh, two hours” (16). Georgie hopes they’ll rekindle their friendship but surely Nate isn’t romantically interested in her anymore, considering she’s unemployeed and living with her parents after her fiance cheated on her. Nate on the other hand, is an uber-successful world traveler with a hot, big-boobed girlfriend. Surely Georgie can’t compete with that? It Started With a Kiss is a quick, sweet read. In fact, my only complaint is that it ended too quickly which is a sure sign of a good book!