Main Characters: Lani, Jason, Erin
Series: None
Lani and Erin are lifelong best friends — and total opposites. Lani’s a down-to-earth Taurus; Erin’s a fiery Leo. Lani likes to do her own thing; Erin prefers an entourage. They’ve always had wildly different tastes, from pizza toppings to guys.
That is, until Erin starts dating Jason.
From the minute Lani meets Jason, she can’t deny the amazing connection she feels with him. It’s like they’ve known each other their whole lives. She’s not sure if he feels it, too — but even if he does, he’s off-limits. Lani’s determined to ignore her feelings for Jason, no matter how powerful they are, rather than hurt her best friend.
Then Erin goes away for the summer — and Jason seems to appear everywhere Lani turns. How long can she keep running from the guy who just might be the love of her life?
Ames reviewed this book here on The Book Scoop and I’ve been wanting to read this book for what seems like EVER and when she came down from Canada, she gave me the book to read. How sweet is she? My favorite! =)
Susane Colasanti did a wonderful job of sucking me right into this story without trouble. Right from page one, I was all about this book. Immediately, I loved Lani and wanted her to somehow be happy and felt for her when against her better judgment, she started falling for her best friend’s boyfriend. She was in a hard place and yet she kept a reign on her feelings for Jason because she didn’t want to hurt Erin. Sometimes, love conquers all…even when you don’t want it to. It’s hard to stay away from the one person that you were meant to be with. Jason and Lani are perfect for each other, they’re great together and even though you know about that unspoken friend rule, you still wanted Lani to end up with Jason.
I ate up Jason and Lani’s romance. It was the cutest thing to me and with each passing chapter, I wanted more from them. Jason was the most adorable thing in this book and my heart went out to him when he was trying to do the right thing.
My only gripe with this story, well my two gripes with this story was 1) Erin and 2) the way Lani just catered to Erin after the crap hit the fan. The crap that Erin got away with in this book made me want to punch her in the face…multiple times. Yeah, I understood that she was hurt because of the betrayal and I understand that she wanted to lash out at Lani but the lengths to which she let things get for Lani at school made me want to kick her where it hurts. Lani never wanted for any of those things to happen and she loved Erin enough to walk away from Jason for a while but when Erin gets back and she goes on her little rampage, I didn’t think she deserved Lani as a friend. Her selfishness made me want her to end up all alone forever and ever.
Then there was the way that Lani, who felt bad for hurting Erin let her dictate the way things were going to be from then on. I didn’t get how she could not want to hurt Erin but be okay with hurting Jason. It didn’t make sense to me. I mean, feel bad but you lost Erin already, why lose Jason as well? That part of the book made me scratch my head but I enjoyed the rest of the book too much to let those little minor things ruin it for me.
This book was a good contemporary YA romance that I think other contemporary fans will enjoy. Fans of Colasanti will rejoice at another engaging story and I would definitely recommend this book to anyone willing to give it a try. I enjoyed it a great deal.
..and that’s your scoop!
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