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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
To be honest, I didn’t know what to expect from this book. So I started with an open mind expecting it to be anything from amazing to bad! It’s actually the book cover that caught my eye.
JJ, Danny and Phillip… best friends!
You grow up with the characters. You experience their elementary school years, high school years, college years with them! It took me a few chapters to get into it, however once I started reading I couldn’t stop it was an emotional roller coaster, but then the happy tears came, I found it a lovely romance novel and its what I dream that will happen in my life and thats to meet the perfect Man, JJ did but she didn't know it, her best friend was with her through thick and thin, he comforted her when she needed it and he made her smile when she was down. I won’t spoil it for you and tell you if she ends up with Danny or Phillip! Go find out for yourself
JJ, Danny and Phillip… best friends!
You grow up with the characters. You experience their elementary school years, high school years, college years with them! It took me a few chapters to get into it, however once I started reading I couldn’t stop it was an emotional roller coaster, but then the happy tears came, I found it a lovely romance novel and its what I dream that will happen in my life and thats to meet the perfect Man, JJ did but she didn't know it, her best friend was with her through thick and thin, he comforted her when she needed it and he made her smile when she was down. I won’t spoil it for you and tell you if she ends up with Danny or Phillip! Go find out for yourself
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
DNF :(
I give up :*(
Edit 06/Jan/2014
So I decided to give this another go. I was in a bit of a book slump the last time I tried and felt I hadn't given it a fair go.
But as it came up again in a series challenge I thought I would give it another go and the fact that there are so many high rating reviews for this surely meant it was my frame of mind & not the book......
I am filled with regret.
I am now in another book slump and it is due to this book.
I feel so confused.
Did I read a different book to everybody else??????? Surely I did!!!!!!!!
Um no....oh OK.
SO,
JJ to me was shallow, immature the whole way through, boy mad and just an all round not very likeable heroine.
I get that she was supposed to be that way in the early stages and there was a point at in or around 30% where something monumental happened and I thought;
"A ha!! Eureka! This is it, the point where we have to had to put up with her immaturity & shallowness so we can see her grow as a character"
I was so so sooooo wrong. She was even thinking about the dreamy hot doctor & the boy she had just kissed etc etc etc. What.The.Actual.
And it just kept going down hill from there.
But I kept going, cause I'm a trooper like that. Or a glutton for punishment...I always get those 2 confused.
And did nobody else get irritated at the constant forcing of the phrase "that boy" into sentences that they just didn't belong??????
No.....oh just me then :(
Danny was Danny & Philip was Philip.
I didn't care one whit about either of them.
Whatever about Danny, Philip was so one dimensional.
I barely knew anything about either of them aside from that they were "Hot", with nice arm muscles and abs and muscles and were cute and did I mention "Hot"!
I am afraid that I will not be continuing on with this series. Nor do I think will I be reading more by this author as I just don't think the writing style is for me.
I would of course like to say at this time before I get stoned to death that this is just my personal opinion & to each his or her own and all that jazz. :)
I give up :*(
Edit 06/Jan/2014
So I decided to give this another go. I was in a bit of a book slump the last time I tried and felt I hadn't given it a fair go.
But as it came up again in a series challenge I thought I would give it another go and the fact that there are so many high rating reviews for this surely meant it was my frame of mind & not the book......
I am filled with regret.
I am now in another book slump and it is due to this book.
I feel so confused.
Did I read a different book to everybody else??????? Surely I did!!!!!!!!
Um no....oh OK.
SO,
JJ to me was shallow, immature the whole way through, boy mad and just an all round not very likeable heroine.
I get that she was supposed to be that way in the early stages and there was a point at in or around 30% where something monumental happened and I thought;
"A ha!! Eureka! This is it, the point where we have to had to put up with her immaturity & shallowness so we can see her grow as a character"
I was so so sooooo wrong. She was even thinking about the dreamy hot doctor & the boy she had just kissed etc etc etc. What.The.Actual
Spoiler
FUCK!And it just kept going down hill from there.
But I kept going, cause I'm a trooper like that. Or a glutton for punishment...I always get those 2 confused.
And did nobody else get irritated at the constant forcing of the phrase "that boy" into sentences that they just didn't belong??????
No.....oh just me then :(
Danny was Danny & Philip was Philip.
I didn't care one whit about either of them.
Whatever about Danny, Philip was so one dimensional.
I barely knew anything about either of them aside from that they were "Hot", with nice arm muscles and abs and muscles and were cute and did I mention "Hot"!
I am afraid that I will not be continuing on with this series. Nor do I think will I be reading more by this author as I just don't think the writing style is for me.
I would of course like to say at this time before I get stoned to death that this is just my personal opinion & to each his or her own and all that jazz. :)
fast-paced
This was almost as good as I remember :)
cw: death, grief
I read this book back in early high school and I absolutely loved it. I remember this was one series that I did a reread of almost immediately after I finished it (at the time I think only the first three were out tho?).
I still think this story was adorable and I really liked it, but the writing felt kind of juvenile. I loved JJ and Phillip and Danny, and I loved how the story went through their history from elementary school all the way thru college. This may be part of the reason it felt juvenile, but you can kinda see that the writing changes the older JJ gets and the closer to the end the story gets.
overall, I loved this. I love friends to lovers stories and this one was not only that, but it was boy next door, CHILDHOOD friends to lovers. it was so incredibly sweet and I was hooked from the start.
cw: death, grief
I read this book back in early high school and I absolutely loved it. I remember this was one series that I did a reread of almost immediately after I finished it (at the time I think only the first three were out tho?).
I still think this story was adorable and I really liked it, but the writing felt kind of juvenile. I loved JJ and Phillip and Danny, and I loved how the story went through their history from elementary school all the way thru college. This may be part of the reason it felt juvenile, but you can kinda see that the writing changes the older JJ gets and the closer to the end the story gets.
overall, I loved this. I love friends to lovers stories and this one was not only that, but it was boy next door, CHILDHOOD friends to lovers. it was so incredibly sweet and I was hooked from the start.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes