Review: Ford is definitely a risk worth taking!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 21, 2013
What do you do when you feel like your whole life has been a lie?  You thought your parents have been happily married for 25 years but all of a sudden you find out that’s not true.  Is true love even real?Summer Stafford had a good life. She grew up on the family farm, Heritage Plantation, with her best friend Casey and the perfect parents who loved and cared for her, as well as each other.  She had a stable, parent-approved boyfriend and a plan for life, a dream of getting her Master’s degree and moving to the big city, but during her senior year that all went to hell.  Out of nowhere she learns her parents are getting a divorce – 25 years together and it’s all thrown out the window.  Were they ever happy together or was it all lie?  Now she finds herself moving back to the farm to help her dad pick up the pieces her mother left when she moved out.  No point in staying with her boyfriend either, true love is just a fairy tale.  She’s swearing off boys for a while.Ford O’Neal is a new summer intern at Heritage Plantation, he spends his time traveling from farm to farm working on his edible/medicinal herbs.  Raised by hippies, he just goes with the flow and lives in the moment, there is no fun in planning life.  Life is about the journey, not the destination.  Love isn’t in the cards for him either, he feels it will just cloud his future and block him from fulfilling his dreams.  Now, a summer fling with Summer Stafford?  That sounds like the perfect way to spend the next few months.  Can Ford convince Summer to just live in the moment and not worry about the future?  They both know he’s leaving in the fall, so will a no-strings fling be just what they need or will it leave both of them with a broken heart?A Risk Worth Taking is a great story of family, heart break, love, finding yourself, and just enjoying the journey.  I loved all of the characters, especially Casey!  He was the perfect “big brother” and played a huge part in Ford and Summer’s journey.  If it wasn’t for the “To Do Before We’re Grown-Ups” list, who knows what would’ve happened.  We all want to be happy in life, but sometimes you’ve got to ask yourself, is love a risk worth taking?