by Elle Kennedy
First sentence: “Wyatt Graham is staring at me.”
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Content: Lots and lots of on-page pretty graphic sex, plus lots of swearing and some (kind of – she’s not quite 21) underage drinking. It’s in the Romance section of the bookstore.

Blake Logan and Wyatt Graham have known each other their entire lives, mostly because their fathers are best friends. (See: The Deal.) Wyatt is four years older, which has always been a problem, especially when Blake confessed her crush to Wyatt when she was 16. And then there was the Christmas two years ago when they came close to having sex, but Wyatt was drunk and pulled away. And now, on the heels of a breakup, Blake finds herself at the family house on Lake Tahoe, looking for some solace to recover. Except Wyatt is there, dealing with songwriter’s block. Of course, there is tension between the two. Of course, they (eventually) give in to it. And, of course, there is fallout.

I wanted to like this one a lot more than I did. And my big problem was with Wyatt. The first 250 pages (yes, you read that right) was Wyatt going “oh I’m obsessed with her, but I CAN’T” over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. To say it got repetitive is an understatement. Then at the 280-page mark, I got tired, skipped 100 pages and picked it up again. (Yes, you read that right, too.) I didn’t miss anything. (Well, I missed a subplot item, but I was beyond caring at that point.) I got the Drama with the pregnancy (drunken sex will do that to you) and then the aborton (well, it was an etopic pregnancy, so it had to happen), and then the fallout. And it was all so. much. Drama. Eventually, Wyatt gets his act together, but Blake kind of just mopes around the whole ending until she gets to drop out of college and be Wyatt’s full-time girlfriend.

Ugh.

At the bare minimum, this book was 100 pages too long. But, it was just not good. I liked the idea, I even read The Deal in preparation (it wasn’t bad). It was all very disappointing. Then again, maybe I’m just a little bit burned out on romance right now.

Either way, this was not good.