HINT: If you get your books from Amazon. Always, always, ALWAYS, try a sample. It will save you the headache of reading a truly awful book. (And insulting the author by offering them to find a new editor or career) It doesn’t work 100% of the time but my chances of reading a burn-it-burn-IT-WITH-FIRE book reduced significantly since I started.
So, utilize that power my friends. Use the force.
With that said, I knew by the first 5 pages that I had a
gem.
What can I say about this book except…
I have a ton more of these but you get the idea.
My first love in romantic story lines is the “unrequited
love” scenario.
My second love…is best-friend-turned.
This is the second one.
I know… I know… Been used a thousand times before. But
really, as the great Pink once said, So, What?
The book was smart, funny, and really tugged at me. Ate this
up in one sitting and woke up with a book hangover.
Well worth it.
The book goes back and forth between Arizona and Carter’s
point of view which I love. I don’t like first person books too much but I like
it when it has more than one person’s voice in it. I also like when the author
leads me to feelings and scenarios through dialogue and gestures. I hate it
when I’m lead there through overly descriptive narratives. It makes me feel
dumb. Readers are smart people. We can assume A LOT.
I also love the fact
that she puts their letters to each other as they grew up. It makes the reader
understand why the abrupt 180 in their relationship. From platonic, ew-cooties
friends to WTF was that?!!!
They have been building up this passion for years and like
Mt. Vesuvius it just takes off with a life on its own.
Oh and the sex scenes….
Carter… I didn’t know that about you but DAMN! More please.
What I didn’t like… no epilogue. But I know what the author
was going for so it’s okay. I’ll accept it for artistic purposes.
Other than that…. Fan-fucking-tastic.
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