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This book was probably one that the younger crowd would enjoy more than I did. It was OK, but from the beginning I couldn't buy the fact that this girl would be in love with a guy that was bullying her. I also didn't understand how the two main characters could go from being such great friends to him hating her for no real reason. He hated her so much that he made her high school years miserable. At the same time there was sexually charged energy between them, but it really just wasn't my thing.
It is a well-written book in terms of the author's writing style. The book does have good reviews on the internet so I'm lead to believe a lot of people liked it. I do think that 18-year-old me might have liked this book, but from my point of view where I'm at in my life right now, the characters were immature and the lead male didn't make much sense to me. I didn't find anything appealing about him, especially when it was explained that the reason he was so mean to her all those years was because he was trying to protect her. Protect her from what? The popular crowd of kids that he thought were a bunch of jerks and any guy that wanted to date her. Somehow that is supposed to be heroic. I just didn't get it.
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