Caroline has a secret she can’t tell anyone: she and her boyfriend Jake are going to run
away at the end of the summer. Sure,
she’s going to just turn 17 in August, but Jake is already 18 and has figured
the whole thing out! They are young, but
they are in love and that will be enough to get them through. Jake is her entire world now. Ever
since she and Jake started dating, her friends
have pretty much all drifted away.
But then Caroline meets Georgia. Georgia has issues of her own (mostly dealing
with her over-controlling parents) but the two girls find something in the other
that they need. As Caroline confides in
Georgia the plans that she and Jake have, Georgia begs her to reconsider the
plan. Caroline pushes back, but even she realizes the craziness of her plans. Always a pleaser, Caroline is faced with the dilemma of who she can afford
to disappoint.
A well written but cringe worthy story. I was disappointed that Van Name didn’t make
more of an effort to depict Jake more appealing. He really didn’t seem worth
all the fuss. Still, I sincerely
believed Caroline’s struggles with making the right decision. And it all just reminded me of how much it sucks
to be young and immature. I’d love to
say that I don’t know anyone who was like this when they were her age, but the
story is intimately familiar. Faithful
and authentic and heartbreaking.
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