NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER! This book sat in my Kindle library for a good 5 months probably. I buy books after reading the synopsis, but what 1st grabs me is the cover. Hence the reason this book Sat in my Kindle. I clicked it Friday am and HOLY SHIT I was blown away! THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THE BEST I'VE READ in The past 12 months! I was absolutely blown away with this amazing story. The cover does not do this book justice! It is filled with such heart wrenching emotions, LOVE found then lost. I finished it and the novella in less than 24 hours! Larkin is the guy everyone warns you about. He has a past stilted by drugs, violence, and sex. He feels like he isn't worthy of love and the beauty it brings. Enter Jenna. She is broken and so scared from a past trauma, that she swears to never love again. Literally she swears it. She picks up the pieces of her life, but is never the same. If not for Her lifelong best friend Gage "Mother Fu**ing" Tucker she would have died long ago. Gage is a hot shot QB and plays on a team with Larkin. Gage has loved her since they were kids. He has ALWAYS protected Jenna and they are a package deal. She is the Yin and he is her Yang. She is the sunrise and he is the sunset. One does not exist without the other. He introduces Jenna to Larkin but warns her that he is one elfed up individual. Jenna and Larkin are drawn to one another like opposite sides of a magnet. They can't stay away. Stubborn wills and misunderstanding cause them to part. Gage is there to pick up the pieces once again. Jenna and Gage have a safe LOVE, Jenna and Larkin have a love that burns so hot it destroys everything in its path. Will a safe LOVE trump a unpredictable one? Can Jenna ever move on from the pain of her devastating past and let LOVE rule? You must read this story! Das Buch hat mich von der Handlung her sehr an "Beautiful disaster" erinnert, nur war die Umstezung leider nicht so gut. Zwei College-Studenten (Jenna und Gage) treffen aufeinander, die beide eine bewegende Verhangenheit haben und versuchen auf ihre Art damit umzugehen. Die Handlungen der weiblichen Hauptfigur fand ich dabei jedoch so unrealistisch, was sie mir absolut unsympathisch gemacht hat. Keiner mit so einer Vergangenheit geht ohne Unterwäsche auf Parties, läßt sich von fremden Männern anfassen und will eigentlich nur Spaß haben. Sorry, aber das geht gar nicht!! Dann läßtert sie über andere Frauen ab, die sich eigentlich nur genauso benehmen wie sie selbst, aber diese sind natürlich "Schlampen". Auch die männliche Hauptfigur springt emotional ständig hin und her und will uns dann weiß machen, dass er doch absolut in Jenna verliegt ist. Zum Ende des Buches hin ist auch plötzlich soviel in so kurzer Zeit passiert, dass man kaum hinterher kam. Die Charaktere haben sich überhaupt nicht weiterentwickelt, sondern sind mir mit ihren Aktionen nur noch weltfremder geworben. Alles in allem muss ich leider sagen, spart euch das Geld.
What do You think about Beautiful Goodbye (2000)?
One of my favourite books that I have read, and I have read a lot of books!
—SKo0LFREEK
great book great story great characters spot on going to start part 2 now
—anya
