Review: Did we all read the same book?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2013
This COULD have been a good book as there were some cute twists in what is an often used plot. It even started out well with the meeting at the locker, the switching schools, the no-dating-Ivy agreement between the boys.  It fell apart after that. Too many things didn't add up, make sense or weren't explained.The characters never seemed to mature past high school.  Their dialogs and behavior were childish for college students.  Not to mention, why were so many of them still IN college five years after high school?  When she returns to college, the heroine mentions the other students were several years younger than she.  Yet her high school friends were still in college?  Even if they were college seniors at that point, it seems odd that they'd get together to do homework on someone's kitchen table every night.  The heroine is described as "sweet" by her classmates early on, then later on she remembers how she was disliked in high school because she was so mean.  There was an excessive and usually incorrect use of the words "smirked" and "snickered".  Both have negative connotations, usually indicating disrespect, smugness and scorn.  Hard to believe these people actually even liked each other with all the smirking and snickering going on.  The heroine never tells her parents about the abuse she has suffered, yet wants them to put bars on the doors and windows. She is heartbroken about the abuse of her dog, but when it is run over, it is mourned for a sentence or two and promptly dismissed.  And the rescue of the baby...seriously?  This book was full of too many silly, immature people who never evolved past high school emotions and behavior.  They argued like adolescents, exhibited childish behavior, made illogical assumptions and stupid decisions.  It was hard to care about them.  Between that and all the inconsistencies...no, can't recommend it at all.