Review: heartwarming, flirty, and sweet!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 27, 2013
No doubt about it, Rachel Higginson writes the best heroines ever - intelligent, strong, hilarious, loyal, thoughtful... I could go on and on, but basically they are girls you would love to have as best friends or like sisters in law or something, ya know?This story is mega cute, it starts off with Ellie Harris - a college sophomore with an overprotective family and a love of skin-covering cardis and scarves who isn't quite sure what she wants to do with her life. She's pretty low at the beginning, having recently broken up with her boyfriend of three years and losing her roommate and all of the furniture the roommate stole to put toward her gambling addiction! And then there is more than that... her ex-roommate also used her identity in a game of online poker, putting Ellie effectively $7,000 in debt to one Finley Hunter, online gaming mastermind and a notorious senior at her university.Hilarity and so many "aww"-inspiring moments ensue as they get together and try to figure out how she's going to pay him back the loss. Neither of them are what the other expected and these total opposites coming together is adorable and snort-worthy funny. Ellie doesn't fall prey to any of Fin's crap because well, she has three older brothers who have put her through the paces over the years. And Fin has never met anyone like Ellie, she makes him want to live up to her standards, and it's actually believable here. Seriously folks, no instalove, no hooking up before there are feelings in place. There is a slow build here that is just delicious to watch err.. read, though seriously I can picture books by Rachel Higginson as movies or tv shows, they read that well!I saw some parallels between Fin and Kane (from Love and Decay) - the glasses, the misplaced intimidation, his determination, the change love makes in him... so I'm glad I read this one if for no other reason than I will have seen a happy ever after for that type of character in my mind. I am still rooting for Kane (I know, I'm mental!), but I feel this may be my only chance for that here. haha! And that's okay. This one is a brilliant read, and will probably be a re-read in the future, I loved it that much!!!