Review: Enjoyable read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2014
Changings Tunes was my very first read by Heather Gunter and I enjoyed it very much.  It was one of those stories where you really needed to analyze the characters to figure out why they are the way they are and why they behave the way they do.  Her leading lady, Ashley, was a very complex character that I loved getting to know during Changing Tunes.Ashley is very hands off, she likes to be in control when it comes to the opposite sex because that’s the only aspect of her life in which she feels she has any control over.  After many years of feeling abandoned and lonely she sets off to college to start a new life and become a new person.  Wanting to wash away her past and change the person she used to be she sets out to do just that.For me Changing Tunes is a story about a girl who has to overcome her past and learn to deal with things that she cannot change but also learn from her past and set out to create her own future, one where she can choose what her future is going to be.  Ashley needs to truly learn who she truly is to accomplish what she sets out to do.  Never relying on anyone she learns to open up knowing that by doing that she is leaving herself open to get hurt but trusting in the people around her to not hurt her.  I loved her strength and her character.  She didn’t pretend to be someone she wasn’t and she owned her s***.When Zeke shows up into her life, Ashley’s walls start to crumble.  Zeke has his own past and his own secrets but when he looks at her all he sees is the beautiful side of Ashley and the sadness in her eyes that he can’t help but want to change.  Terrified of his feelings for her they agree on being “just friends” but the fireworks that Heather gives us with those 2, I knew they were anything but “just friends”.  Feelings ignite and walls start to crumble and little by little Ashley lets Zeke into her world never giving too much but giving more to him than she has given to anyone else.  Zeke has secrets of his own that he keeps from her, not knowing if its something she can handle.  He knew that she was the one for him, and with that, he knew he needed to lay all his secrets out there and hope that Ashley can excerpt him and everything that he is.Can Ashley truly take charge of her future and be the person she so desperately wants to be?  Will Zeke’s secret destroy the future he wants so badly with Ashley?  Or will they accept each other’s pasts and learn to grow together towards their future?Changing Tunes is an amazing story about healing and learning to become a better person.  Heather gives us a story full of challenges and hard choices and characters that are so easy to fall in love with.  Changing Tunes is a passion filled story that will make you want to invest your time into the characters and the story and see where their journey will take them.