Review: Love Conquers All Romance!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 15, 2012
I found this one while surfing around in Amazon yesterday.  It was a great new adult love story with a passionate romance, swoon-worthy male character and a little bit of conflict.  I started it at 7:00 last night and wrapped it up at 3:45 this morning.  It was a little longer than most of the books I have been reading which I liked and I had to know what happened to the characters in the end and wasn't going to sleep until I did.Even though Hope was only seventeen, she was not overly whiny or immature like some young characters can be.  It seemed like her parents divorce and some adolescent difficulties had matured her some.  She had a little bit of a defiant edge but was really rather mature for a young female.  I also think her father's absence for part of adolescence left her with a few relationship issues.  She put up with some things from a boy that she should not have and didn't wait long at all to get some attention from Chance.Now Chance is smart, kind but incredibly damaged by an event that happened while he was in college.  Now he has dropped out of school, avoids being in public and doesn't think he is worthy of relationship or that anyone can forget what he did or what others think he did.  I felt sorry for him because he spent too much time worrying what others think rather than living his life.  Chance is also incredibly lonely so Hope doesn't have to twist his arm much to get him to pay some attention to her.I would say that neither thought they would fall in love but they did.  Now this may not be such a bad thing under normal circumstances but Hope is 17 and Chance is 21. Oh, and Hope's dad has warned Chance to stay away from his daughter.  It is almost impossible to stand between two people who are madly in love, though, and they soon begin a secret love affair.  Their love story was beautiful; they had complete respect and trust in each other and Chance would do anything to protect Hope.It seems like a YA book is not complete without some type of parental issue and I absolutely disliked Hope's father for some of the choices he made that sacrificed his daughter for a business deal.  He redeemed himself a little bit but he is definitely on my top five list of parents in books that I can't stand!  I did love her father's girlfriend Buffy.  She wasn't much older than Hope but she had some spunk and really cared about Hope.The only thing keeping this book from a 4.5 to 5 rating is a little bit of lack of conflict or angst.  There were some points in the beginning that really hit it but for the length of the book, I needed a little bit more to really make me love it.  There were also a few spelling and grammatical error, nothing terrible but enough to notice.  I would definitely read more books by Jennifer Foor.Because of the steaminess of the love scenes and frequency, I would not call this a young adult novel.  I would say it is New Adult because of the mature content!