lissajean7's review against another edition
1.0
Nope
I don't even know where to begin. I wish I hadn't read it. I expected a cute romcom about a girl realizing she loved her best friend, but that was not this book. Not even close. (Spoilers below)
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(Seriously, I'm not kidding. Spoilers.)
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The first third of the book I just felt like she was too stupid, not believing he could love her even though he was making out with her a ton. Plus, she was making out with this other guy too.
Then she and a group of high school juniors and seniors go to Vegas (on a whim!) with fake IDs and she and her best friend, who have been dating all of one week, decide to get married while they're completely drunk. When they come home, they tell their parents, who completely flip out to the point of fist fighting and refusing to let them be married. So they leave.
Then there's this whole newly married thing, including looking for apartments and painting the walls and such. Through it all the other make-out guy from the beginning turns out to be a crazy stalker dude. Boyfriend gets injured, and the last bunch of the book is the drama of whether he's going to pull through.
Not to mention (yes, I know I'm actually mentioning it), the fact that people in her book never 'say' anything, they 'chirp' it. It gets really annoying. Also, the author knows nothing about American football. Like, at all. Even though best friend turned hubby is supposedly a running back and it comes up A LOT. Plus, the writing in general is just lacking. She repeats herself regularly, as in she says something in one paragraph and then says the same thing in a little bit different way in the very next paragraph. There are regular typos. Some of the phrasing is just odd. And really, I was just wondering what the book was supposed to be about most of the time.
I think this book just wanted to be too many things. Plus, there were a whole crap ton of things that were just plain unbelievable. I was kicked out of the story so many times it was a miracle I finished it. I hate to give one star reviews, but, ugh...
I don't even know where to begin. I wish I hadn't read it. I expected a cute romcom about a girl realizing she loved her best friend, but that was not this book. Not even close. (Spoilers below)
*
(Seriously, I'm not kidding. Spoilers.)
*
The first third of the book I just felt like she was too stupid, not believing he could love her even though he was making out with her a ton. Plus, she was making out with this other guy too.
Then she and a group of high school juniors and seniors go to Vegas (on a whim!) with fake IDs and she and her best friend, who have been dating all of one week, decide to get married while they're completely drunk. When they come home, they tell their parents, who completely flip out to the point of fist fighting and refusing to let them be married. So they leave.
Then there's this whole newly married thing, including looking for apartments and painting the walls and such. Through it all the other make-out guy from the beginning turns out to be a crazy stalker dude. Boyfriend gets injured, and the last bunch of the book is the drama of whether he's going to pull through.
Not to mention (yes, I know I'm actually mentioning it), the fact that people in her book never 'say' anything, they 'chirp' it. It gets really annoying. Also, the author knows nothing about American football. Like, at all. Even though best friend turned hubby is supposedly a running back and it comes up A LOT. Plus, the writing in general is just lacking. She repeats herself regularly, as in she says something in one paragraph and then says the same thing in a little bit different way in the very next paragraph. There are regular typos. Some of the phrasing is just odd. And really, I was just wondering what the book was supposed to be about most of the time.
I think this book just wanted to be too many things. Plus, there were a whole crap ton of things that were just plain unbelievable. I was kicked out of the story so many times it was a miracle I finished it. I hate to give one star reviews, but, ugh...
tjasap's review against another edition
4.0
There was a lots of ''I love you's''..it did bother me at first..but when you get to thinkin, we dont say those words as often as we should to the people we love...
I liked the story..I even cried a little at the scene in the hospital...my heart was beating fast...I got all emotional..
The ending was a bit long...but yeah...I got my happy ending...
I liked the story..I even cried a little at the scene in the hospital...my heart was beating fast...I got all emotional..
The ending was a bit long...but yeah...I got my happy ending...
the_coycaterpillar_reads's review against another edition
5.0
LOVED THIS BOOK, cannot explain how much this book touched me. Beautiful story.
javajunglequeen's review against another edition
2.0
Fun story but way too simple, i did enjoy it, it was nice and sweet but because of the spelling mistakes and other errors i can't give it more than 2 stars.
toodoorcc's review against another edition
1.0
if i could do a negative this would be it. i think i am officially done reading (or attempting to read anything by kirsty moseley) i hated TBWSIMBW (first off that was a long title). i liked the idea of this so i decided to give it a try. nope never again. i literally was on pg 8 when i had to stop reading. specifically the part where clay calls her name and she drops her backpack and literally jumps on him. yeah no im done
bookish_redpanda's review against another edition
1.0
I don't review books cause I like people to go in with a blank slate when reading, but this needed to be said. Honestly, if I could give zero stars for a book, I would. I DNF at around 22%, because I just wanted to keep giving it the chance I felt it deserved... and I realised it really didn't deserve even that much of my time.
The premise of this novel drew me in - the chance at a high school romance with your best friend; I'm a sucker for those kind of books, no matter how cringeworthy they are.
And then I got further in. Honestly, not sure how this book managed to get published. Normally if a storyline grabs me, I can overlook things like grammar, spelling etc. But this book feels like it was written by a 14 year old.
The characters act sometimes much younger than their ages (16-21), but then there are times when they act so much older than they seem. Yet the language they use remind me of middle-school kids at times. I'm surrounded by teenagers at my job, and I'm certain none of them speak the way that these teens do.
The best friend just so happens to be the best looking guy at school. The guy Riley dates is a "bad boy" who is enemies with her best friend. The "slutty" look of every girl at school who isn't Riley. Cliché to the max. Add onto it the fact that you can tell from Chapter 1 that Clay is hopelessly in love with Riley... man, I should have stopped reading back then.
I feel I won't get the time back I spent on reading this. And yeah, my review may seem harsh, but honestly do not understand how this book has a current rating of almost 4 stars.
The premise of this novel drew me in - the chance at a high school romance with your best friend; I'm a sucker for those kind of books, no matter how cringeworthy they are.
And then I got further in. Honestly, not sure how this book managed to get published. Normally if a storyline grabs me, I can overlook things like grammar, spelling etc. But this book feels like it was written by a 14 year old.
The characters act sometimes much younger than their ages (16-21), but then there are times when they act so much older than they seem. Yet the language they use remind me of middle-school kids at times. I'm surrounded by teenagers at my job, and I'm certain none of them speak the way that these teens do.
The best friend just so happens to be the best looking guy at school. The guy Riley dates is a "bad boy" who is enemies with her best friend. The "slutty" look of every girl at school who isn't Riley. Cliché to the max. Add onto it the fact that you can tell from Chapter 1 that Clay is hopelessly in love with Riley... man, I should have stopped reading back then.
I feel I won't get the time back I spent on reading this. And yeah, my review may seem harsh, but honestly do not understand how this book has a current rating of almost 4 stars.
magali33's review against another edition
I'm having trouble rating this book...
I loved the story and would have given it an easy 4 stars in the first half but the second half was just plain boring. I stopped at 70%, I just couldn't finish it.
I loved the story and would have given it an easy 4 stars in the first half but the second half was just plain boring. I stopped at 70%, I just couldn't finish it.
aya_yuuki's review against another edition
3.0
Didn't realize this was already here. I read this on wattpad before.
therkive's review against another edition
2.0
reviewing this bc omfg this was the first time a wattpad story i had read was publised into a book lskdfj wild anyways. you can tell exactly what 14 yo me liked to read here rip