Love Story

Love Story
Jennifer Echols
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Every now and then we all pick up a book simply because we are looking to read about a little romance, usually because our own lives are lacking in that area. I’ve read some books by Jennifer Echols like The Boys Next Door, which happened to be perfect for the mood I was in. So when I saw this book by her I was extremely excited. Especially since it was about two college students in a creative writing class falling for each other. Being a writing major in college, it seemed like it might be the perfect little “Dream Romance” for someone like me.

            I am sad to say I was very disappointed. While the story was not terrible, it was not great either. The characters lacked that certain spark that makes you love them. They seemed flat, and their fears and actions dull and unrealistic. The story starts out with Erin in New York City, paying her way through college because her grandmother cut her off for wanting to be a writer instead of majoring in business. She is taking the mandatory freshman writing course and is about to have her piece critiqued by the class when in walks Hunter, her former love, who her story happens to be about. We follow these two on a kiddy roller-coaster of “love”. One of the biggest problems of this story, is we don’t see these two grow together, they stay on the same level throughout most of the story, and very suddenly jump in and out of situations where they are together.

            The ending was very inconclusive, and again jumped to a place where they hadn’t been going just two pages before. I really wanted to enjoy this book, but instead I found myself setting the book down to surf Facebook instead (Something I never do in a good read). This story almost seemed like it was trying to imitate something of Sarah Dessen’s but couldn’t quite. Like I said, the read wasn’t terrible, and there was nothing I saw wrong in presentation or the way it was written, but it is not a book I would highly recommend. With that said, I am firm believer in forming your own opinion, so maybe borrow it from your local library. 2 pearls.

XOXO

Kenna Lee