[description from B&N]Molly and Charlie have fallen head over heels in love-even though they've never met Molly is a fashion-conscious city girl in L.A. Charlie is an earthy, mountain-biking dude from Boulder, Colorado. Each of them has big plans with their respective friends for the summer-until they discover that their parents decided to swap houses!
Luckily there's no amount of homesickness that a bit of snooping can't cure. Charlie and Molly begin crawling under beds and poking around in closets to find out a little more about each other-and they like what they find.
Can Charlie and Molly's long-distance romance survive jealousy, misunderstandings-and the thousand miles between them?
MTV's Room Raiders meets You've Got Mail in this sweet, old-fashioned love story for the digital age. . . .
Review:
I never really refer to things as cute, but I must refer to this book as cute. Because it was. Cute. It just was. It wasn't so romantic that it was unbearably cheesy and it was light enough to fly by quickly.
The characters are much deeper than you would think. Even though the book is in third person, both Charlie and Molly's thoughts are conveyed well, and I always felt like I knew what was going through their heads. Actually, I think this book wouldn't work as well if it was written in first person. Third person just sounded good and gave the gist of their feelings well enough that first person perspective wasn't needed. And of course, because of all these feelings, both Molly and Charlie are completely human. They aren't stereotyped either. Molly, although loving fashion with a passion (rhyme not intended.), isn't a snob about it and Charlie, although being a mountain biker, isn't some macho jerk or a crazy environmentalist.
My biggest complaint is that I wanted more after I finished. Which I guess isn't that much of a complaint, but still. I wasn't satisfied. Can't really say why without spoiling it, but I want more! Gar.
Still a great book though. You should read it if you haven't already.
8.5/10
Aww, I'm glad it's cute I definitely want to read this book!
ReplyDeleteI've seen a few reviews for this. I want to get it! :)
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention that the fifth book in the PLL series, Wicked, is already out in Canada.
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Although, Canada isn't not exactly the heartland of YA lit. Barely any authors come here on tours or for book signings. Sigh.
Wow, just re-read my previous comment. -shudder- Terrible grammar. Sorry about that!
ReplyDeleteI just reviewed this as well! I wanted more too....:( But I do love it, and I have a few Q and A's with Jordanna if you're interested!!
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thanks for the great review, and it was great to meet you at the reading! and gabbi, just want you to know that I'm actually Canadian and will be doing readings in Montreal in Dec. if you live there or nearby...
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