Rating: B+
Loved the story line with this book. Troubled boy, good girl. Life throws them together and gives them a few curveballs. Classic.
What bothered me about this book is that the author would skip ahead without letting the reader know. In some books, the author says "1 week later" or something of the sort. Miss Cheryl did not. It was a bit confusing at first. Or, you would be reading and want to continue with a certain scene and she just ends it.
I loved the length of the book. I would look down and see how far I was in percentage wise and would realize there is a lot going on, and it's only a quarter way into the book. I LOVE THAT.
The guy is Park Reed. The girl is Lucy Braden, or Lulu or Lu. The book starts with a Prologue of Park finding out that girl he thinks he's in love, but isn't even in a relationship with, leaves him for some other guy. Her name is Hope. The new guy is Mason. His best friend, Guy, even knows that Hope wants to be with Mason. Guy is also Hope's brother. Hope is also adopted. You don't find that out til the middle of the book. But, Park comes out and tells a secret of Hope's, that she secretly cuts herself. And he leaves.
We open with Lucy hiding in the building she lives in, playing water war with her friend Jessie. Jessie also knows Park, and Park moves in with him. Lucy squirts Park on accident and then Lucy gets drenched with cold water by Jessie. That's how Park and Lucy meet. He's kind of entranced with her. But, unfortunately, the rules of Park living with Jessie are that Park can't touch Lucy.
Lucy dated a guy named Jared who used to live with Jessie. Jared broke Lucy's heart by being a man whore. Which is just what Park is, now that he's been hurt by Hope.
Lucy lives upstairs from Jessie (and now Park) with her friend Bree. Bree and Jessie are "seeing eachother". And by that, I mean they're friends with benefits. Bree and Lucy are best friends.
Lucy and Park are both very attracted to eachother. But, Park, being a normal guy, tries to push her away. Lucy tries to atleast be friends with him, once she finds out about Jessie's ultimatum he gave Park about her. But, Park doesn't make that easy.
They go through this back and forth thing with being attracted to eachother for a while. Add that with the ending of certain scenes instead of playing them out and skipping ahead and I was getting frustrated. I wanted to see certain things.
FINALLY THEY GET TOGETHER. I wanted to fist pump. The author is very good with her sex scenes. But as soon as it gets good, it goes very bad. Park realizes the feelings he might possibly have for Lucy and he scared the shit out of him. AND, Hope shows up. So he pushes Lucy away. He leaves and finds a girl at a party (who is very much taken) with his old band mates and messes around with her, then takes her back to his place (something he never does) and EVERYBODY IS THERE. Lucy, Bree, Jessie, Chase, Guy, and Hope. He flaunts this girl, Erika, in Lucy's face, when only hours ago they had gotten together for the first time. And then a second time in the shower...(spoiler alert for later).
Lucy leaves, but ends getting woken up by shouting downstairs and see Park getting the shit beaten out of himself by 3 guys. The girl, Erika, is there. She figures it must be her boyfriend and his friends beating Park up.
Park ends up in the hospital. Lucy stays with him the whole time til he wakes up. He doesn't want to see Lucy and she avoids him for a while after he gets home. But, she ends up caving and makes him all his favorite foods. Bree catches her and thinks she's nuts, but she takes the food down to him. As soon as she gets downstairs, she regrets it. But, Park catches her and she leaves the food. Their romance starts back up from there.
Park realizes what an idiot he is for pushing her away and tries to get to her back. He leaves her little gifts, starting from her bed in her apartment, down to his room. He begs for her forgiveness and she sort of gives in.
Then, just when they're getting back together and taking things slow....she ends up PREGNANT! He's 19. She's 20. It was the time in the SHOWER. I think this is a good twist to the story, but where it happens, it's like "How can we see how the pregnancy plays out with only so much left of the book???"
Park is surprisingly okay with the pregnancy. He wants to be there for Lucy and his kid because his dad wasn't always around. *swoon* Things keep going along. He thinks they should get married, she doesn't say no, only not right now. They move in together. She's working extra shifts at the diner.
One night, while she's working, the diner gets robbed. The robber ends up killing her friend at work. Park freaks out. But, Lucy is okay. He proposes again after that, and she says yes.
Then there's an epilogue. I MEAN REALLY?? We miss the birth, and cut straight to the reception after the ceremony. The baby, Emari, is already 7 months old.
I think it ends well, but that's not the ending I wanted.
Overall, it's a good book, especially for contemporary.
Thanks!
Ashley
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