If this book had been about high schoolers instead, it would have been very unrealistic and I would have quit it at the start. The other thing that I liked about the book was that it was new adult (without all the sexy times) and featured an older cast of characters.
There’s nothing about them that stands out and I probably won’t remember them in a couple weeks’ time. This also made the characters very forgettable. But even though our main characters aren’t the typical white characters that we see in YA and NA novels, there’s hardly any mention of their diversity so they might as well have been white. Our lead male, Gabe, is Portugese and Welsh. Her good friend from high school is gay and her creative writing teacher is a lesbian. What I did like about this book was the characters and how diverse they were. Fluffy contemporary romances don’t usually put a bad taste in my mouth but this one did. Unfortunately, this book fell short of my expectations, which weren’t that high to begin with. Like most readers, I was drawn to the multi-POV aspect of the book because a book that successfully incorporates 14 different perspectives is one that I need to read. You’ll be rooting for Gabe and Lea too, in this irresistibly romantic, completely original novel! MY THOUGHTS Even the squirrel who lives on the college green believes Lea and Gabe were meant to be together. The waitress at the diner automatically seats them together. The bus driver tells his wife about them. The baristas at the local Starbucks watch their relationship like a TV series.
Their creative writing teacher pushes them together. Unfortunately, Lea is a little aloof, Gabe is shy, and it looks like they are never going to work things out.īut something is happening between them, and everyone can see it. They get the same pop culture references, order the same Chinese food, and hang out in the same places. Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class.
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