Review: 2.5 to 3 stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2012
When I first started this book, I didn't think I would like it.  There was so much information given in the beginning, that I got bored.  I understand why the author took us way back to when Payton and Lizzie met.  I just didn't understand why there was so much information and some of it really didn't do anything for the story.  This book probably could have been 4 chapters shorter and it still would have been fine.  There were other things that the author did later in the book that I didn't understand.  Why make Lou Anne part of the master plan?  Why would a grown man take his grown date back to the HS cafeteria for a pizza date?  I know that the author tried to throw in some story about when they were teenagers and he took her to the cafeteria, but it seemed like an afterthought.  That little tidbit should have been included in all the other information in the beginning of the story.  I didn't find the prom thing romantic or fitting to the story at all.  I think it would have been more romantic at Granny's Pond or the barn that held the first barn party he invited her to as his date.  There were some things I didn't like and others that I did.  As the story went on, the writing did get better.  I did actually want to find out what happened.  This wasn't a bad read, but I don't think I'll read it again.