Copy received from Simon & Schuster Australia for an honest review

I am not going to lie - this little blogger is an old fart, and does not read much YA - I kinda feel a bit pervy thinking the guys are hot when I am old enough to be their mum!

This was my first Jessie L Star read, so I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked it up, however I was hooked from the first word to the last.

It is a book full of emotion, guilt, hope. I was not expecting the depth of emotion that I felt throughout the book - not sure why, but probably because of the age of the characters?

Lara is pretty much a one of a kind. She has her guilt from the past guiding her future, and whilst I love what she was doing, I am with the other characters in the book when I tell her it is not healthy.

Fletch. Oh Fletch. Through all the have been through, he has been quite the constant. Constant pain in the ar$e at times, but he was always there, no matter what. I don't know why he kept coming back, but I also understood why he couldn't stay away.

There is a great love/hate, push/pull between Lara and Fletch and you just know that they aren't going to be able to fight it forever.

There are some great secondary characters that really round out this story - particularly Merry and Lizzy. I would love to be their friends.

This was the first book by Ms Star that I have read, and I will be going back to check out her other works in the future.