In a sprint, every millisecond counts.
When you’re waiting for love, those milliseconds can feel like eons.
High school senior Lucas Preston has it all: star of the track team, a scholarship waiting for him, an apartment to himself and a revolving door of girlfriends. He also has an older sister, five younger brothers and a father who relies on him to make sure those brothers don’t kill each … kill each other.
His saving grace? Lois “Laney” Sanders, a girl he started to fall in like with when he was just eleven.
A girl who became his best friend, his confidant, his courage.
It took only sixteen clicks and eight seconds for Lucas to realize that his like for Laney had turned into love.
Eight life-changing seconds.
It’s also the exact length of time it took to lose her.
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Drama drama from this one but it was great. Glad it ended happily
Excellent writing. Dual POV. Would highly recommend along with the second book of the series. Great read.
Enjoyed the book. Looking forward to the series
I had to remember the characters were teens but it was a very good book. It had some very sad moments, humor but it all ended upbeat!!
One of those boos that stays on your mind afterwards, for a long time. You expect something to happen, it is building, but when it happens?? You are blown away!!
An epic read. Jay MClean is frigging awesome. This book was a page turner for me.
There were so many emotions in this book that made me want to step into the story and help the main characters really connect without all the misunderstandings. I could not put the book down. The feelings were so real. This author could really portray an excellent story……no fluff in this one. One of the best written books I have read.
My first Jay McLean book and I will definitely be checking out more of her work. I’m not usually a big YA fan, but this book was at times both funny and sad, but real for most part, too. I’ll be remembering the Preston family for a long time. Such a strong bond between so many of the characters.
I enjoyed the beginning, just a little unrealistic on how Lucas loved Lucy.
Love it…just maybe a tad bit long
This book was really good I even got the book after this Logan I can’t wait for the next book which should be Leo’s but there’s still 3 other brother’s & and there sister Lucy’s book in another series.
Not great. To much back and forth
It’s a good book to read hope other people I enjoy it
Well written. Different from the norm
A beautiful story of friends who fall in love.
When was the last time you read a book that made you forget the time? Something that pulled you in so badly, you never noticed you’ve been reading the entire day?
It was last Sunday for me and that’s when I read Jay Mclean’s LUCAS. And just like those days I read Kick Push and Coast, starting a JMac was easy, letting her books go… that’s hard. Very hard. And another problem is, I badly need to take a little break after reading this book, because I’m feeling like whatever I pick up would be second best and that’s unfair. *sigh*
LUCAS is a spin-off from Jay Mclean’s More Than Series. Well for those who haven’t read that series yet, Lucas is Lucy Preston’s brother. She’s the heroine from the book MORE THAN FOREVER.
This book is about the oldest Preston son, Lucas and his childhood bestie, Lois “Laney” Sanders. I won’t say how they met or how their friendship was because that’s too adorable and I want you guys to read the entire thing with zero ideas, just like how I experienced it. So what I can just totally reveal are: it’s a “best friends to lovers” trope that’s swoony and emotional but not clichéd. Oh and I’m sure you’ll fall in love with almost every character in this book. The Preston kids are just freakin’ cute and hilarious! I love the banters and I love how genuinely these fictional characters love each other. I badly want to jump inside this book and be a part of their world.
I’m not sure how Jay does it but her words are so captivating that you’d want to savor every letter she’s written. Jay Mclean doesn’t pique her readers’ interests, she awakens their hearts. You don’t read her words, the words talk to you and make you feel alive.
Lucas, just like this author’s other works is the kind of book that consumes you. It’s the kind of book that just makes you feel a thousand emotions, it makes you wonder how that little muscle you call “heart” can carry all the weight. You know it’s an damn good book when it makes reviewing so hard. *sigh again*
Jay McLean writes about imperfect and flawed characters PERFECTLY. Her characters are very realistic. They never felt like fictional characters, they were so alive! They’re the kind of characters you want to exist in your actual life and be friends with. Lucas and Laney are too real for me. I felt their love, their pain and their struggles when they figured out that they’re falling in love with their best friends. And you know what? I wanted to hug them right then and there when they felt that. I’m not sure if I made sense, but that’s how they made me feel. Damn.
My heart’s filled with emotions at the moment and every flip of this book’s page made it more difficult for me to breathe. SO. DAMN. GOOD.
You guys ready to be transported back to your high school days when in your little world, all that mattered is having fun, falling in love? LUCAS will surely make you reminisce how beautiful and hurtful young love is. Poetic, beautiful and raw- this is a Young Adult read that you’ve never experienced before.
”And so without meaning to, without wanting to, I started to fall in like with a girl who would become my best friend. My confidant. My courage…A girl who would later crush my heart and destroy me.”
Oh my God. I had no clue what I was getting into when I started this book, no clue at all. I had no clue my heart would break, that I’d be sobbing my eyes out, that I’d reach a point in the book where I didn’t think I’d be able to continue on. Lucas and Laney’s story tore my heart out and made it soar, over and over and over again. I’d be crying all the tears one minute and then the next one of those Preston punks would say something so outlandish, so inappropriate, that the tears of sadness and heartache would turn into tears of laughter. I can’t even begin to explain the roller coaster of emotions I went through reading this book, but God was it worth it.
”She was more than a fling, more than a random attempt to pass the time. She meant a lot to me…in fact, she meant the world.”
How am I supposed to put into words what Lucas and Laney’s story did to me? How it made me feel? I guess if you could see the piles of tissues sitting on the floor next to me while I was reading you’d maybe understand. And even now, writing this review, I’m reliving everything I went through while reading and all the tears are flowing again. What a breathtaking, heartbreaking, extraordinary beyond words love story. I fell completely in love with Lucas and Laney, so much so that I didn’t want their story to end. It was such a joyous, painful, addicting journey that Ms, McLean took me on, it’s hard to let go. This felt like a lifetime journey, not just one of 6 short years.
”I take her face in my hands and I kiss her, claim her, and I hate when she’s right and I’m wrong and she’s everything and I’m nothing.”
This is the type of book I love, even when I’m hating it. All the angst, all the intensity, all the fun, all the laughs, and all the love. Lucas will absolutely overwhelm, destroy, captivate, and delight you. It’s that perfect storm of emotions and feeling that’ll have you on the edge of your seat, just waiting for what’s coming next. I could not put this book down, and I can only imagine what is in store for me when I read Logan.
”…she has no idea that she’s the beauty out there.”