Love Story by Jennifer Echols
Release Date: 19 July, 2011
Publisher: MTV Books
Pages: 256
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She’s writing about him. He’s writing about her. And everybody is reading between the lines.
For Erin Blackwell, majoring in creative writing at the New York City college of her dreams is more than a chance to fulfil her ambitions—it’s her ticket away from the tragic memories that shadow her family’s racehorse farm in Kentucky. But when she refuses to major in business and take over the farm herself someday, her grandmother gives Erin’s college tuition and promised inheritance to their maddeningly handsome stable boy, Hunter Allen. Now Erin has to win an internship and work late nights at a local coffee shop to make her own dreams a reality. She should despise Hunter . . . so why does he sneak into her thoughts as the hero of her latest writing assignment?
Then, on the day she’s sharing that assignment with her class, Hunter walks in. He’s joining her class. And after he reads about himself in her story, her private fantasies about him must be painfully clear. She only hopes to persuade him not to reveal her secret to everyone else. But Hunter devises his own creative revenge, writing sexy stories that drive the whole class wild with curiosity and fill Erin’s heart with longing. Now she’s not just imagining what might have been. She’s writing a whole new ending for her romance with Hunter . . . except this story could come true.
Ahh Jennifer Echols how you make me swoon. I hadn't read a novel by Echols before this but after reading many great reviews on this book I thought I'd give it a go. My heart is now all a flutter and I'm eager to read another of her works.
There is a slight edge of forbidden love between Erin and Hunter. Erin is the wealthy girl who grew up in the large house and even had her own pony. Hunter on the other hand is the stable boy who along with his dad worked for Erin’s family. This in itself would have been enough to add tension between the two, but what I loved about this book was that Echols didn’t take the easy route. She created even more delicious strain between the two, due to past events which we slowly find out about through the short (and thoroughly steamy) stories they both write in class.
Both characters were easy to connect with. Erin although stubborn knows what she wants in life and is prepared to work for it. Hunter has a slight bad boy exterior but underneath that we knew he is a decent guy with a heart.
Overall I really enjoyed this book. It had everything in it that I look for in a book; the strained romance, a mystery and above all characters that I can actually see in my head and a storyline that is thoroughly different to anything I’ve ever read before.
My only quirk with this novel was that I felt it was slightly too short, the ending felt abrupt to me. I remember getting to an important point in the story and seeing there was only a few pages left and I doubted that it could all be wrapped up in those last few pages. I think my gut feeling was right, there was a conclusion but I wasn’t quite on board with how it was laid out.
All that said, expect to see another Jennifer Echols novel review in the near future!
There is a slight edge of forbidden love between Erin and Hunter. Erin is the wealthy girl who grew up in the large house and even had her own pony. Hunter on the other hand is the stable boy who along with his dad worked for Erin’s family. This in itself would have been enough to add tension between the two, but what I loved about this book was that Echols didn’t take the easy route. She created even more delicious strain between the two, due to past events which we slowly find out about through the short (and thoroughly steamy) stories they both write in class.
Both characters were easy to connect with. Erin although stubborn knows what she wants in life and is prepared to work for it. Hunter has a slight bad boy exterior but underneath that we knew he is a decent guy with a heart.
Overall I really enjoyed this book. It had everything in it that I look for in a book; the strained romance, a mystery and above all characters that I can actually see in my head and a storyline that is thoroughly different to anything I’ve ever read before.
My only quirk with this novel was that I felt it was slightly too short, the ending felt abrupt to me. I remember getting to an important point in the story and seeing there was only a few pages left and I doubted that it could all be wrapped up in those last few pages. I think my gut feeling was right, there was a conclusion but I wasn’t quite on board with how it was laid out.
All that said, expect to see another Jennifer Echols novel review in the near future!
