Review: Not quite there yet
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2014
Chloe and Noah grew up together.  They are best friends.  In middle school, they had roles together in a production of Peter Pan.  Since then, she has called him Peter and he calls her Pan.  They quote lines of the play to each other in kind of a best friends code.  At times the character names might be substituted for Piglet and Pooh.  Like too much chocolate on a sundae, too many bows on a dress, too much tinsel on a tree, the friend-relationship is too much sweetness and cuteness.Both Chloe and Noah have relationships.  They treat those other people badly -- Chloe has been half-way committed to her boyfriend for four years (no wonder he develops an affection for pot).  Noah kisses three women in this book.  He writes songs about his good times with Chloe, and makes it clear how he feels about her.  But Chloe lives in her own head, taking photographs, oblivious to the adult world around her, and resistant to Noah's romantic interest because his new world as a famous person is undesirable to her.Becky Wicks puts together a story about Americans.  It is clear she does not live here, among us.  I hope she will come to the United States to visit, to learn how we speak, to experience our geography and to get a sense for how men and women in their 20s relate to each other here in the 21st century.Three stars to Ms. Wicks for writing a coherent if slightly bizarre story with a beginning, middle and end, and apparently sequels.