Review: Truly outstanding
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2014
One of my new favorite author/books.It's a MUST READ!Review may contain minor spoilers.It started so simply, a girl trips at a college party and is helped up by the handsome dreamy boy with the big deep brown bedroom eyes.Hadley's friend, David decides that she needs to make out with someone. She is a senior in college and has not had any fun in those four years. She is serious, studious, and addicted to work. David wants her to have some fun so he dares her to kiss someone. What about the dreamy boy with the big deep brown bedroom eyes? He was leaning against a red pick up truck with an easy smile on his face. Then he saw me, he stood up and smiled.This is the story of Hadley Arrington & Jack Diamond. It is a story about a girl who doesn't believe in love because her parents were divorced and they both chased after something other than her which left her feeling like she didn't matter. She didn't believe in love. They didn't choose her. She made herself a promise. It's a story about a boy who struggles with loss in his life and because of that loss he made a promise to himself.Hadley's life dream is to work as a combat journalist. She has her reasons. Jack's dream is to figure out a way not to work. He has his reasons. It is a beautiful heartfelt story about a boy and a girl, trying to stay true to the promises they made. It is filled with humor, life, love, friendship, support and loss.The story of Hadley & Jack is an in depth look at real relationship troubles due to selfish choices and sometimes not thinking through how they will affect others. It also shows how true friendship supports decisions even if you don't like the choices your friends make. The author uses humor as well as an excellent storyline to make this book both interesting and believable. It has a few other storylines that doesn't take away but rather enhances the story.There were so many quotes from the book that made me smile."you told me you loved me. And it was all I wanted to hear. But I pretended it wasn't. I convinced myself it wasn't.""Why'd you kiss me?" "My roommate dared me." "I mean, he dared me to kiss someone and I chose you.""It was never about you being wrong. It was about me wanting you to stay.""I realized that if anything happened to me, I wanted you to know that I had loved you. I mean, I didn't even know that, I don't think. I loved you but I told myself I didn't. And I believed that I didn't. Until I thought about, if I die right now, he wouldn't know that I loved him and I do. I never let it show. But I loved you.""I fell for the girl with a dangerous job and you fell in love and we both decided we needed to keep these stupid promises we made to ourselves when we were kids instead of growing up and realizing, things aren't that black and white.""I knew that saying I loved him wasn't going to break me this time. I knew it would save me.""I'm not afraid of letting my LOVE SHOW. I'm afraid of not showing it.""I loved that after all that time of thinking love wasn't safe, I realized that I had never been safer than when I was curled in my tiny apartment in Harlem, with Jack Diamond, the person I was madly in love with."