Book Review

Crash by Nicole Wiliams

 

Southpointe High is the last place Lucy wanted to wind up her senior year of school. Right up until she stumbles into Jude Ryder, a guy whose name has become its own verb, and synonymous with trouble. He's got a rap sheet that runs longer than a senior thesis, has had his name sighed, shouted, and cursed by more women than Lucy dares to ask, and lives at the local boys home where disturbed seems to be the status quo for the residents. Lucy had a stable at best, quirky at worst, upbringing. She lives for wearing the satin down on her ballet shoes, has her sights set on Juilliard, and has been careful to keep trouble out of her life. Up until now.

Jude's everything she needs to stay away from if she wants to separate her past from her future. Staying away, she's about to find out, is the only thing she's incapable of. 

For Lucy Larson and Jude Ryder, love's about to become the thing that tears them apart.

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Spoiler Warning:

This was an easy read to get through but it wasn't my favorite. Lucy meets Jude and you can feel the sexual tension between them but Jude makes a lot of mistakes aka he steals a car and things really don't work out between them and they decide to be friends. On her first day at her knew school Lucy is branded a slut because she knows Jude. I find it hard to believe that everyone knows they're friends on the first day and no one gives her a chance. The real problem I have is that in one chapter Lucy goes from the school slut to Homecoming Queen and a cheerleader a little anticlimactic...probably. There were things I liked about this plot and a few questioning situations or choices the characters made. Overall I'm on the fence about liking the book or not. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either, I did like it enough to read the following two which I can tell you were a lot like this one. Its pace is frenetic and its overall tones is a bit dodgy, while the plot is very melodramatic. Although the two part ways in the end there is promise they'll get back together when they end up at colleges a few hours apart.

A.B.