Review: Fantastic Read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2013
Choices tells the story of Gracie, a seventeen year old girl with the world at her fingertips and the high school quarterback, Nick, on her arm. Her future is already mapped out- she'll follow Nick to California where he'll be playing college ball, they'll live together, finish school, and someday in the distant future they'll start a family. Unfortunately for Gracie, someday came a little bit sooner that she expected.When Gracie breaks the news to Nick, he says he loves her but he leaves her anyway. Some love, right? So now she's alone, heartbroken, and pregnant. Until one day, left crying at her locker due to Nick, older, smokin' hot Carter enters the picture, beginning on the path of friendship and then into love.Then, one day Nick decides he wants Gracie back. He comes by and finds Carter at the house. As it turns out, Carter has a past and Nick is part of it. Now Gracie has to decide what to do. Will she stay with the supportive man she now loves or will she go back to Nick in order to give her unborn child a complete family?Choices was a fantastic story. I connected with the characters very easily. I felt Gracie's anger and pain towards Nick. I smiled with every interaction with Meg. She was such an awesome best friend! I loved the small side story with her and Mason. Carter warmed my heart with every interaction. He was so much more mature than his 20 years. Gracie's parents, brother, and Grammy were so supportive and caring. The family interactions felt so genuine, and it made me glad for Gracie that she and her unborn baby would have such a wonderful family to help care for them. Carter's family was the same way. They'd love Gracie's baby just as much as they would if it was Carter's, which is more than we can say for Nick's awful mother.Some stories about young love are pretty unbelievable and unrealistic. Or the couple has impossible feats to overcome and the world is against them. This story could have gone that route, but it didn't come even close. Gracie and Carter's journey to love is a down-to-earth, relatable one. The whole relationship and it's progression was very genuine to me. They didn't dwell on issues when they came up, they dealt with them. While Gracie could sometimes be immature (she is only 17 afterall), for the most part she handled herself and her relationship with Carter very maturely. Overall, I really liked the book and would recommend it.