Review: It's ok but..
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 26, 2013
I only got 43% of the way through before I gave up.  I believe the story and characters were just too young.  She is a year out of high school, been with an abusive guy for a year and broke up for a year.  That makes her 17 when she was mixed up with the loser.The whole dialogue, etc. was just more for a YA I believe.  She is constantly in cut-off jeans and a tank.  Over and over we are told about this outfit.  I'm sure it was probably a sweet romance, I was just bored the whole time I was reading.Of course, there is the abusive boyfriend that we have to keep hearing about. She has a date with a great guy and she keeps comparing him to the creep.  The creep has been gone a year.  She knows he is a creep and she knows she was stupid to ever date him in the first place and she realizes he was an abusive jerk yet we still have to keep listening to her comparing him to the good guy. Of course, he comes back to town and starts to terrorize her.  She gets a restraining order and thinks all her problems are solved, that little piece of paper is going to control this ego driven nut job.  Maybe it did, I didn't get far enough to see if it did or not.  I really would have liked to see more interaction between the H&h; and a lot less dwelling on the jerk.  I think the book would be fine for YA but it just wasn't for me.