2.5 stars.

This is a really cute story about two teenagers who meet on the night of Mardi Gras in New Orleans and spend the rest of the night together, exploring the city and learning about each other but leaving their baggage behind.

This had a lot of potential and I really loved the setting. New Orleans really just drags me in, I love the way in every book it comes alive and almost has a personality of its own. There is always a huge sense of living in the moment and not taking things for granted and i felt it in this book too with a city and its people that had to build it and themselves back up after Hurricane Katrina but didn't let anything keep them down. The book is full of energy and fun and this is pretty much all it was. Julie and 'Miles' were a bit of an insta-love connection, and the chemistry was there but the way they sucked into each other straight away was a bit implausible at times. I kind of just had to accept it to have fun with the rest of the story. I did feel like this must have been the longest night ever as so much stuff seemed to happen, it was a bit unreal at times.

I think this book would actually make a really cute 'chick flick/romance' movie as with the combination of the setting and the adventures and the 'tragic' backstories (which weren't actually that tragic and seemed like it was being blown out of proportion) but as a book it didn't quite do it for me.