Review: Young Love
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2014
4.5 StarsBecca's life has never been easy, but she pushed to make something of herself in college even though it means leaving her brother, Chad, behind with their alcoholic mother. Will she be able to accept it when Karma starts paying off in good things, or will her past keep her from really living in the present?This book is about a young girl who has endured more in her first eighteen years than any person should endure in a lifetime. With focus, determination, and a passion for ballet, she manages to get into a good college on the east coast, all the way across the country from her alcoholic mother. With the perseverance of her stubborn roommate, she starts to have the normal college experience; classes, parties and even boys, well one boy. Unfortunate circumstances lead to her brother being arrested, but that actually ends up being for the best in the end, and allows Becca to start being just a normal teenager.While reading this book I frequently found myself thinking that the characters were silly or foolish for the strength of their feelings at such a young age, but then I thought back to when I was eighteen and I got it. I was seriously just as foolish and silly with the strength of my feelings for my fiance when I left home for college (there were never any wedding bells for us though). There were times when Levi also seemed awfully mature for an eighteen year old boy, but that might be explained by his background. Overall this book was very well written, and once I stopped being a fully responsible adult and allowed myself to be sucked into the story and back to my teen years, it felt very authentic and I didn't want to put my Kindle down. While there were a few sex scenes, they are tame enough that I would not be opposed to my teenage daughter reading them (when she gets to that age, that is.)