Ratings11
Average rating2.3
As high school graduation nears, Wren Gray is surprised to connect with gentle Charlie Parker, a boy with a troubled past who has loved her for years, while she considers displeasing her parents for the first time and changing the plans for her future.
Wren is surprised to connect with gentle Charlie Parker, a boy with a troubled past, while she considers displeasing her parents for the first time and changing her future plans. The plot contains profanity, pervasive sexual situations, and violence.
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I probably wouldn't have read this, except it was on my desk and I started flipping through it and realized that the main character is planning to go to a “mini Peace Corps” after high school. First of all, I was so excited that Myracle didn't just lazily say she was going to “Peace Corps” right after high school, because that's something that weirdly happens a lot in fiction and it's just one of my pet peeves. YOU NEED A COLLEGE DEGREE OR SIGNIFICANT LIFE EXPERIENCE TO DO PEACE CORPS. YOU CAN'T JUST DO IT ON A WHIM AFTER HIGH SCHOOL. PLEASE STOP DOING THIS, FICTION CREATORS.
oh what you didn't want me to rant about the Peace Corps application process in the middle of this review? whatever, you can't tell me what to do.
Anyway. I liked it as a realistic contemporary romance. It kind of captured that last-summer-after-high-school sense of possibility. I liked the frank but romantic talk about sex, and the way Wren's ~first time~ is presented.
youth, dreams, possibilities, sexy times, accurate representations of the work involved with applying to volunteer abroad, hurrah