This book grabbed me from the get-go. It’s one of those that even though I knew one of the let-downs from reading the synopsis, the fact that she isn’t going to win valedictorian, I still got tears in my eyes and totally felt the sadness right along with Rowan. Of course it was impossible for me not to adore her with her love of romance, and writing a romance novel, and even the way those around her acted about the romance genre. All of those things are true for not only me, but for any romance lover honestly. The whole story is really from Rowan’s point of view, even though we do get one or two extra things, lists, notes, etc., from Neil’s point of view. And while I kind of wish we’d gotten both sides, not knowing exactly what he was doing or why he was doing certain things really added to the drama and suspense of the story. There was one twist that I kind of called early on. But I won’t mention it, because I don’t want to ruin anything for you before you read it.

Overall it was such a fun story, a lot of realistic things in the way they acted or things they did. It also reminded me of what a neat city Seattle is, and would definitely be a fun place to go back again and enjoy the things I didn’t get to do last time.

I had to share the cool postcards I got when the publisher sent me this ARC, so those are the perfect images you see that I interspersed within the synopsis on my blog. This is definitely a wonderful story and one I’ll be sure to purchase for my school library where I work as soon as I get the chance!

Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.