With friends like these…It’s the end of summer. Just before I start senior year with my two best friends in the whole world. Dustin and Emily are everything to me. We’ve been inseparable since middle school, and when we’re together, nothing can go wrong. But things aren’t always what they seem. Em’s turned into a drunken mess who parties too much. Dustin and I have hooked up a few times—and now … a few times—and now he’s ready to take our relationship to the next level. Yet I’m not sure I want things to change. I’m scared if I take it any further with Dustin, our friendship will be ruined forever. Then there’s Ryan. The new guy. He’s hot. He flirts way too much. And Em has totally set her sights on him.
So when my best friend betrays me in the worst possible way, guess who’s there to help me pick up the pieces of my broken heart? Ryan. But he’s so confusing. Annoying. Sweet. Sexy. I want to trust him, yet he makes it so hard. What I really want is for everything to go back to the way it was before.
Before I found out that best friends make the worst kind of enemies.
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Terrible
As with One Night, someone was trying too hard.
Monica Murphy (or anyone else who doesn’t usually write YA) would have never done this shit with her NA/Adult books. Unfortunately, for these authors, YA = little whore heroines.
This was a continuous cheatfest.
STOP ABUSING YA FOR FUCKING MONEY
Oh the drama of high school. This is a perfect balance of the challenges of being a teenager and traversing the waters of love, friendship and the muddy waters in between. Olivia and Dustin have known each other since elementary school. When Emily moved to town, she made their duo a trio. As teenage hormones start to takeover, we find that the bonds of friendships get pushed making it hard to know whom your true friends are. Dustin has always had feelings for Olivia but Emily likes Dustin. Then a new boy arrives on the scene, Ryan. Olivia spends part of her summer away from her friends and when she returns, life isn’t the same. Will this trio find a way to remain friends? Or will their friendship be broken? I’m still reeling from this story. The angst and drama is intense which has me questioning whom to trust. Excited to see where this journey goes in the next book.
Even though my teen years were a lot different I had to think of my time at school during this read.
I really enjoyed this story but I had to get used to Livvy’s selfishness first. The characters were believable but as typical teens they were really annoying.
This book was well written because despite all the teenage drama I was really engrossed in the story and couldn’t stop reading. I actually thought this would be a standalone and I desperately wanted to know how this story ends but as it seems I have to wait for it a bit longer.
The Story:
Livvy spent the summer holidays at her fathers and can’t wait to see her best friends Em and Dustin again. Although the summer holidays weren’t that long, it seemed like a lot happened in this time. People change and time moves forward even if you want it to or not. When Livvy discovers the secret her best friends kept from her, she is angry and sad at what they did.
Livvy thought a lot about her time with Dustin when they were messing around but now she can’t ignore the gorgeous guy named Ryan standing in front of her in Em’s backyard.
Can Olivia forgive Em and Dustin? Will they grow as friends or will their friendship break?! Boys drama, girls drama and everything else one has to go through during the teenage years is included in this story.
Thoughts:
The characters were really annoying though there was one I actually liked and that’s Amanda. She seemed really nice and normal and not like the usual gossiping bitch but she was sadly not the main character. Livvy on the other hand was so indecisive, annoying and selfish. She didn’t want to decide between two boys and I had the feeling as if the story was turning in a circle. She kind of knew who she wanted but hung onto both guys and I felt so bad for both of them because why doesn’t she just draw a line and cut one of them loose instead of leading them on?!
I enjoyed this read and I definitely want to read the next book in this series but I hope it won’t be dragging too much because I want an ending soon! I can’t do this turning in a circle for long.
VERY ENTERTAINING YOU WONT STOP READING THIS BOOK VERY JUICY CANT WAIT FOR PART 2
Ugh. No. This is like a handbook for how not to write a modern romance…
This book was a good read.
This book required a lot of pushing through. I didn’t care for the characters or the fact that Livvy was so enthralled with Ryan when he’s such an awful person. ESPECIALLY because she knows how he is and regularly makes points about it. I won’t be finishing this series. I’m actually pretty disgusted with myself for finishing it (I’m just not the kind of person who likes leaving books unfinished). All in all it was a pretty meh read and I was just so annoyed with everything.
Only one likeable character in the whole lot; all the rest were jerks. Full of teen lushes and alphaholes.