This is the first book I've read from Kaylee Ryan and while I have a list of authors I like to read from, now and then, I like to read from new authors as well. I decided to buy this book because it had a solid 4.0 rating and reviews were really encouraging. I must admit it wasn't what I was expecting. It wasn't horribly bad, the plot was decent, the college freshman who loses her parents at a tender age and goes live with her Granma. She then meets Aiden who becomes her only male best friend at a young age. Eight years later, Allie's Grandma decides is time for her to open her wings and learn who she really is by going away for college. Reluctantly, Allie follows her Grandma's advice and attends to the same college as her best friend. Here, Allie meets Liam, her roommate's older brother and of course the main character. Their attraction is immediate and that well....bothered me a bit. I can understand physical attraction at first sight, it happens to everyone. But I couldn't fathom their relationship moving so quickly, the author doesn't give us much detail during those moments when they're getting to know each other. I wished she would have, it would have made ME fall in love with them as well. Okay, so she didn't. It's not the end of the world, and not a reason not to enjoy the book so I continued reading. It was fine until they start getting intimate. CAUTION- the following contains SPOILERS, you've been warned. For someone as inexperience as Allie who has NEVER been on a date, NEVER been kissed, NEVER had a boyfriend, she moves pretty quickly with Liam. I usually don't care as long as it's believable. It wasn't believable for me. Liam wants to take things slow because well they been dating for one day and then boom! She grinding down on him and kissing him and having her first orgasm on his lap. Soon enough they're showering together and what happened to Allie? She is NEW to all of this, shouldn't she be, I don't know, a little hesitant about it? At least, in the beginning.
And Liam, for someone who has NEVER had a girlfriend, NEVER does PDA and has NEVER been committed in a relationship before, all of the sudden, he wants Allie more than his next breath. So when he makes Allie his girlfriend, he does everything he has never done before even making space for her to stay the nights with him. All this in a time frame of 24 hours. Okay, he is obsessed but...why? What is it that makes Liam so interested in Allie? All I could gather it was because she was ''the sexiest girl in the world and all his.''
I didn't get any depth from any of the main characters despite the fact we get both POVs, meaning that it should give the reader a better profound insight into the characters' unspoken thoughts. Now that I point out the POV's, I couldn't really tell the differences from one another. To me, it was all one person. That was a huge let down for me.
In summary, this is what I gathered from their POV's:
From Allie's POV, I couldn't tell much from Liam other than he is hot, sexy, and she wants him to want her.
From Liam's POV, all I kept reading was "she's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen" and "she's so sexy, I want her to be mine" and don't get me wrong, I love hot, possessive man but Liam didn't come off to me like that. I didn't feel anything other than he felt attracted to her physically.
In all, the story was too 'happily ever after' to be believable. She's 19 and he is around 21 and already crazy in love, for the first time, and soon to be married in less than a year. It seemed that everyone found their soul mates within each other. Liam and Allie. Liam's parents. Allie's parents. Aiden's parents. Allie's Grandma. It was rather unbelievable.
It was a very light book, quite unrealistic, a lot of "I love you's" everywhere, there some short steamy scenes, there was nonexistent drama, only one sad incident, and that's pretty much it. My recommendation is if you're feeling down or hopeless in love, then this is the book for you.