Lazaros's Reviews > Crash

If you ask me, this was a really good read, that's it if you're into cute relationships with lots of up and downs and you're okay with the drama. The drama worked out for me, it pulled me in right from the beginning, because I'm a sucker for drama and I won't even try to deny it.

Lucy Larson is a 17-year-old with the ambition of getting into Julliard and becoming a dancer. She's recently moved to a new town. One day at the beach, a boy catches her eye, that's it until he notices she's taken an interest in him and he comes over and strikes a conversation with her. And so it begins. He supposedly lives next to her which is a lie.

Jude Ryder is kind of fucked-up, you see. His father is in jail, his mother bailed on him. He's living in a boy's home and things are not pretty in his life, until he meets Lucy and she becomes the girl he wants to marry.

The thing about this, is that it has amazing characters. I loved the characters from the beginning and that's why it got me hooked up. Jude is not your typical bad-boy, he's actually very nice. He just has a temper and he hates all the pretentious shits at his school, which is okay because once upon a time when I went to highscool, I hated everybody and wanted to stab them in the eye. He's been through hell, his life couldn't be any worse but he just keeps on going. What misses from his life is someone to motivate him, someone to make him see how good he is. That's where Lucy comes in.

Lucy, well, she's not one to take shit from anyone, especially from Jude. She does not put up with his shit and she'll downright tell himm if he does something to fuck it up. She is the only one who gets to him and the only one who understands and sees him for what he is. A human who makes mistakes and whose life is terrible.

While our characters have problems, they are willing to work through them because they love each other. It's actually one of the few high-school romances that I found so cute. Their romance is existential and not fictional and they're not just horndogs trying to dryhump each other. Cute.

“How does a guy like you promise someone forever at eighteen?”

“Easy,” he said, pressing a soft kiss into the corner of my mouth. “He finds a girl like you.”

Nicole Williams is a good author. There were some editorial mistakes but that's understandable and there weren't many so I didn't really take notice. I liked her writing, there is a lot of talk about feelings and I loved that. While the book is relatively short, she manages to make it full and I had a feeling of contentment by the time I was finished and I must admit that I wanted to get into the next one right away. I couldn't get enough of the amazing characters and their cuteness.