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You Make Me
by Erin McCarthy
I specifically did a google search looking for a new adult book that was based in my own home state of Maine. And this was one that popped up. It is nice reading a book where you really recognize the places where the characters live and the places they visit.
This was one of those "epic-type" love stories of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy tries to win girl back... but with some differences like boy meets girl when he becomes a foster child in her home; then boy loses girl after they fall in love and he just up and leaves, enlisting in the army; then boy tries to win girl back after four years on the night that she accepts a marriage proposal from her new boyfriend.
Cat is a college student in Orono, Maine, who has just accepted a proposal from her golden boy boyfriend, Ethan at a party. But who shows up just at the same time? The love of her life, Heath. The man who broke her heart four years ago. They were best friends, they were lovers, they were kind brother and sister???? Well the brother and sister part makes for a nice excuse she gives to people about why she and Heath seem so close. But, his arrival causes her world to unravel a bit. She has kept her past a secret from Ethan and his sister (who happens to be her best friend) Aubrey. Now that he is back from Afghanistan, all those old feelings she had for Heath come rushing back. Not only the feelings of love and longing for him, but the utter despair and hurt that she felt when he promised her the world and then up and left her when they were teenagers. She has to maneuver through all the feels and figure out what she really wants in life: her sweet, caring, rich boyfriend, or the man who knows who she really is: the carefree wild child, not the polished, nice persona that she has adopted in the last four years.
Cat was actually not one of the more annoying female leads I have read of. She has to navigate through a tricky decision. Not even necessarily the choice... no, to the reader that seems pretty clear that she wants to choose Heath. But it is always hard when a decision you make ends up hurting someone else and since Ethan is not a truly unkind person, it makes it hard to hurt him. He deals with it in his own way I guess.
Also in relationships, there can come that point where you are terrified that its REAL and you could get hurt so you can get kind of crazy in your own head, like Cat does. She keeps finding things out that threaten her trust in Heath even more. So the assumptions and accusations start running around in her brain and she freaks out and alienates people. I thought it was a very realistic adaptation of some of the scary things about relationships.
This was one of those "epic-type" love stories of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy tries to win girl back... but with some differences like boy meets girl when he becomes a foster child in her home; then boy loses girl after they fall in love and he just up and leaves, enlisting in the army; then boy tries to win girl back after four years on the night that she accepts a marriage proposal from her new boyfriend.
Cat is a college student in Orono, Maine, who has just accepted a proposal from her golden boy boyfriend, Ethan at a party. But who shows up just at the same time? The love of her life, Heath. The man who broke her heart four years ago. They were best friends, they were lovers, they were kind brother and sister???? Well the brother and sister part makes for a nice excuse she gives to people about why she and Heath seem so close. But, his arrival causes her world to unravel a bit. She has kept her past a secret from Ethan and his sister (who happens to be her best friend) Aubrey. Now that he is back from Afghanistan, all those old feelings she had for Heath come rushing back. Not only the feelings of love and longing for him, but the utter despair and hurt that she felt when he promised her the world and then up and left her when they were teenagers. She has to maneuver through all the feels and figure out what she really wants in life: her sweet, caring, rich boyfriend, or the man who knows who she really is: the carefree wild child, not the polished, nice persona that she has adopted in the last four years.
Cat was actually not one of the more annoying female leads I have read of. She has to navigate through a tricky decision. Not even necessarily the choice... no, to the reader that seems pretty clear that she wants to choose Heath. But it is always hard when a decision you make ends up hurting someone else and since Ethan is not a truly unkind person, it makes it hard to hurt him. He deals with it in his own way I guess.
Also in relationships, there can come that point where you are terrified that its REAL and you could get hurt so you can get kind of crazy in your own head, like Cat does. She keeps finding things out that threaten her trust in Heath even more. So the assumptions and accusations start running around in her brain and she freaks out and alienates people. I thought it was a very realistic adaptation of some of the scary things about relationships.