Summary:
Before-Serena (Reena) Montero has been in love with Sawyer LeGrande forever. In the typical school girl crush, she daydreams about the one day that he finally pays attention to her. Then, he does and the two of them fall in love. But then Sawyer disappears. This leaves Reena alone, pregnant, and devastated.
After- Three years later, Reena has had her baby girl and is rebuilding her life when Sawyer shows back up. At first, Reena wants nothing to do with him, but slowly she begins to feel those old feelings come back again. Can she really trust him after he left her or should she pay attention to her head and move on?
My thoughts:
Okay, I found this book to be very well written and easily understandable. I just dislike the characters. This is one of those times where I am really mixed on a book. The book itself is incredibly well done. Cotugno has a beautiful writing style. Her prose is elegantly done with smooth transitions and an easy to follow plot. There is never a point in time where I want to stop reading because of the way that she writes. She sucks you in even though the character's are fairly generic overall. On the other hand, Sawyer is a dick and Reena is annoying. Sawyer is exactly how movies portray frat boys at the beginning. He drinks too much, is self-absorbed, kind of abusive, and is really looking to get laid. I never really feel like he has a golden moment where you really see love for Reena (before or after). Plus, he never gives straight answers and talks around things. That just seems like a stereotypical sleezeball. Reena on the other hand is one of those girls you want to shake awake. She is clearly obsessed more than in love. She never sees the bad in Sawyer even when it literally is right in front of her (or completely gone and out of her life). It's that blind obsession that is understandable as a teenager, but not as a mother. Eventually, I just wanted to yell at her.
See, that's my dilemma. I was so caught up within the book that I wanted to yell at the characters. Please forgive the crazy teacher at the front of the room yelling at a character that is fictional and can't possibly hear her. Obviously, that means Cotugno did a very good job at pulling me into the novel.
Before-Serena (Reena) Montero has been in love with Sawyer LeGrande forever. In the typical school girl crush, she daydreams about the one day that he finally pays attention to her. Then, he does and the two of them fall in love. But then Sawyer disappears. This leaves Reena alone, pregnant, and devastated.
After- Three years later, Reena has had her baby girl and is rebuilding her life when Sawyer shows back up. At first, Reena wants nothing to do with him, but slowly she begins to feel those old feelings come back again. Can she really trust him after he left her or should she pay attention to her head and move on?
My thoughts:
Okay, I found this book to be very well written and easily understandable. I just dislike the characters. This is one of those times where I am really mixed on a book. The book itself is incredibly well done. Cotugno has a beautiful writing style. Her prose is elegantly done with smooth transitions and an easy to follow plot. There is never a point in time where I want to stop reading because of the way that she writes. She sucks you in even though the character's are fairly generic overall. On the other hand, Sawyer is a dick and Reena is annoying. Sawyer is exactly how movies portray frat boys at the beginning. He drinks too much, is self-absorbed, kind of abusive, and is really looking to get laid. I never really feel like he has a golden moment where you really see love for Reena (before or after). Plus, he never gives straight answers and talks around things. That just seems like a stereotypical sleezeball. Reena on the other hand is one of those girls you want to shake awake. She is clearly obsessed more than in love. She never sees the bad in Sawyer even when it literally is right in front of her (or completely gone and out of her life). It's that blind obsession that is understandable as a teenager, but not as a mother. Eventually, I just wanted to yell at her.
See, that's my dilemma. I was so caught up within the book that I wanted to yell at the characters. Please forgive the crazy teacher at the front of the room yelling at a character that is fictional and can't possibly hear her. Obviously, that means Cotugno did a very good job at pulling me into the novel.
