This was quite a typical book about college love, it’s the
kind of book which I can read millions of and still not get bored of. There were
however with this book a few issues with the main characters that I didn’t
quite understand and thought were blown out of proportion but these did not
detract from the reading experience and I would still put it down as a good read.
The book was written in the POV of the two main characters
Stella and Tucker; Stella is a small town girl who is leaving home to go to
college for the very first time. Whereas Tucker is a rich kid who feels he is
entitled to every girl he comes across, he makes a game of using then then
leaving them. Stella is at her first college party when she meets Tucker and
gets caught in his trap; it’s from there that the couple become close until a
party where Tuckers game is ended, he gets what he wants from Stella and then
following his normal protocol acts as if it’s nothing. This causes massive
fallout which leads to Tucker screw up royally separating the couple for what
feels like forever. I quite liked Tucker as a character, but then I always like
a bad boy with a damaging past. But I really could not get away with Stella,
firstly I don’t really get the high school boyfriend drama screwing a person up
that badly and then she kind of turned into a bitch and a bit of a bully to her
ex-boyfriend and Gabby.
The secondary characters I felt noteworthy included Honor,
Nora, Sloan and Grayson. Honor is Stella’s best friend from home who goes to
Brown with her, the two have a very close relationship almost sisters and it
remains this way throughout the book. Nora is the unexpected roommate of Stella
and Honor, she is very self-absorbed but a relatively nice girl who maybe just
needs to make a break from her normal life. Sloan is the loving boyfriend of Honor,
he is a really good guy however for some reason is still good friends with Stella’s
ex. Grayson is a housemate of Tucker and the person who helps him in his
conquest for women; only with Stella something went wrong and Grayson attacks
Stella.
The storyline is similar to other books I’ve read and the
pacing is good, leaving it till later on in the book to know what happens
between the two main characters. I liked that there was a build up introducing
Stella however I think this book might have benefitted from a chapter on how
the relationship fared in the long run.
3 stars, a good book but I didn’t like the main female
character.
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