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The Secret Year by Jennifer R. Hubbard
3.0

What can I say about this book...
So basically this guy, Colt, was with this girl, Julia, who had a boyfriend, for a year. They would meet secretly and have sex and talk and whatever. Julia dies in a car accident and suddenly, Colt's life is just -whoosh- gone.
Okay, I'm saying that all quite sarcastically. It's not that the book was bad but I felt absolutely NO CONNECTION with the characters... Colt CLAIMS he's upset, but there's no gut wrenching grief really displayed. I understand that he's trying to keep up this facade for the people at school and those around him, but when it's a book taken in first person perspective, you'd expect the character to come out more through the words. Not a bad book (because something had to have kept me reading), quick read (only 192 pages !), and I finished it in like 2.5 hours. It didn't make me totally rage quit on it, but I can't give it rave reviews either...