Ames’ review of Easy by Tammara Webber.
Main Character: Jacqueline
Love Interest: Lucas or Landon?
Series: n/a
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A girl who believes trust can be misplaced, promises are made to be broken, and loyalty is an illusion. A boy who believes truth is relative, lies can mask unbearable pain, and guilt is eternal. Will what they find in each other validate their conclusions, or disprove them all?
When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the last thing she expects is a breakup two months into sophomore year. After two weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she’s single, attending a state university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends, and failing a class for the first time in her life.
Leaving a party alone, Jacqueline is assaulted by her ex’s frat brother. Rescued by a stranger who seems to be in the right place at the right time, she wants nothing more than to forget the attack and that night–but her savior, Lucas, sits on the back row of her econ class, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. Her friends nominate him to be the perfect rebound.
When her attacker turns stalker, Jacqueline has a choice: crumple in defeat or learn to fight back. Lucas remains protective, but he’s hiding secrets of his own. Suddenly appearances are everything, and knowing who to trust is anything but easy.
I’ve been seeing positive reviews for this book all over and decided to check it out myself. I have to agree with everyone, this is one good read!
Jacqueline’s college roommate dragged her out to a Halloween party and Jacqueline decides to leave early. At her truck, she’s attacked and almost raped by her ex-boyfriend’s frat brother. She’s saved by a fellow student, named Lucas. After that moment, she starts to Lucas around campus more and more, and they even have a class together! Her friends deem him the perfect rebound guy – she is only 2 weeks out of a long term relationship (since high school).
At the same time, since Jacqueline missed 2 weeks of economics class (she shares that class with her ex), her professor tells her to do some extra work to catch up and gives her the TAs email address. Thus begins a slightly flirtatious email relationship with the econ class TA, a guy named Landon.
Like I said before, I really enjoyed Easy. I liked Jacqueline’s emails with Landon and I liked all her interactions and texts with Lucas. Lucas is truly yummy and he’s pretty much perfect. Yeah he has a horrible secret from his past, but that only gives him a vulnerability that offsets his perfection. Or adds to it. He’s the artistic, broody guy that drives a motorcycle.
And Jacqueline – she was all caught up in her boyfriend’s life but she slowly emerges from his shadow in the midst of their break-up. She was a musician and I liked that about her. She’s not kick-ass but she’s not a spineless nobody like some other female characters I’ve read lately.
The villain of the story, the fellow student who tried to rape her, is truly despicable. That dude really gave me the creeps. At first Jacqueline doesn’t do anything about the attempt, but her roommate and Lucas back her up and empower her when more stuff happens with him. Also, and this is spoilery but I feel it needs to be said, another student is raped, but that happens off the page.
I liked the characters and I liked the writing. I recommend Easy and am giving it a B+.
..and that’s your scoop!
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Ditto what you said. I really enjoyed the writing and I liked the characters including Jacqueline’s best friend who stood by her without hesitation. I also adored the texts and emails from Landon and Lucas and couldn’t decide which I guy I liked more. Once I figured out what was going on, I adored both guys even more. 😉 And the ending was just great!
Great review, I too loved this one!
The more I hear about this book the more I want to read it!
Thanks for the review, ames! It sounds like a good book 😀
I think in many ways, any girl who has been hurt is Jaqueline.
“A girl who believes trust can be misplaced, promises are made to be broken, and loyalty is an illusion.”
How many of us may not have felt at times that loyalty is but an illusion?
So glad that there are always loyal and loving people in this world to compensate for jerks..lol
p.s. lovely review!
Tabitha-Yeah it was! I like how Lucas fully supported her.
Ali-Thanks! Have you read anything else by this author?
Alex-I definitely think you’ll like this one.
Musings-That’s so true. I know I’ve definitely been let down by some I trusted.
I too have being hearing good things about this one. Glad to see you enjoyed it! Great review. 🙂
Another book I need to look out for 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it Ames! Did this read like a YA or did you find there’s a difference with what they call New Age LOL.
Leslie-Thanks! Did it make you want to read the book? LOL
Nath-There’s a difference. There was definitely some maturity required of the reader to read this one, especially around the rape issue. I would like to know what you think of this b/c I know you don’t like high school drama, so this avoids that for the most part. 😛
OMG this book was so good. Thanks for reading it and reviewing because I read it and loved it and will be reviewing it soon. This book was such a great book!