Love
Story
by Jennifer Echols
Paperback, 243 pages
Published on: July 19th 2011
Publisher: MTV Books
ISBN: 1439178321
For Erin Blackwell, majoring in
creative writing at the New York City college of her dreams is more than a
chance to fulfill her ambitions--it's her ticket away from the tragic memories
that shadow her family's racehorse farm in Kentucky. But when she refuses to
major in business and take over the farm herself someday, her grandmother gives
Erin's college tuition and promised inheritance to their maddeningly handsome
stable boy, Hunter Allen. Now Erin has to win an internship and work late
nights at a coffee shop to make her own dreams a reality. She should despise
Hunter . . . so why does he sneak into her thoughts as the hero of her latest
writing assignment?
Then, on the day she's sharing that assignment with her class, Hunter walks in. He's joining her class. And after he reads about himself in her story, her private fantasies about him must be painfully clear. She only hopes to persuade him not to reveal her secret to everyone else. But Hunter devises his own creative revenge, writing sexy stories that drive the whole class wild with curiosity and fill Erin's heart with longing. Now she's not just imagining what might have been. She's writing a whole new ending for her romance with Hunter . . . except this story could come true.
Then, on the day she's sharing that assignment with her class, Hunter walks in. He's joining her class. And after he reads about himself in her story, her private fantasies about him must be painfully clear. She only hopes to persuade him not to reveal her secret to everyone else. But Hunter devises his own creative revenge, writing sexy stories that drive the whole class wild with curiosity and fill Erin's heart with longing. Now she's not just imagining what might have been. She's writing a whole new ending for her romance with Hunter . . . except this story could come true.
Erin Blackwell is
headed to college in New York City to study creative writing and earn a living
as a romance novelist. Her grandmother has other plans: she approves of the
college, but she wants Erin to study business and then come back home to
Kentucky to run the family's famous racehorse farm. There is no way Erin will
agree. Studying in New York and writing her way into a career is her escape
from the farm and the family tragedy that happened there. So Erin's grandmother
decides Erin really will live life as a starving artist. She takes Erin's
future job running the farm, her inheritance, even her college tuition, and
gives them all to Hunter Allen.
Hunter has lived on
the farm for years. He's Erin's age, he's the stable boy, and he's the romantic
dream of every girl in her high school. But he was involved in the family
tragedy. Erin has always given him a wide berth. And he's a slick opportunist.
She's furious that he fooled her grandmother into giving him Erin's birthright
and sending him to Erin's college. At least she's free of him in her creative
writing class. So she pens a story that has haunted her lately, in which the
horse farm heiress at the very first Kentucky Derby starts a forbidden affair
with the lowly stable boy. Unfortunately for her, the day she's sharing this
story with her New York classmates, Hunter walks in. He's switching to her class.
And after reading about himself in Erin's story, he writes his own sexy
assignments that lure Erin into dangerous fantasies about what could have been
between them, and what might be.
The story starts with
a mini historical romance which made it look like the book would be out of the
world. But barely seventy pages into the book, I was very disappointed. Erin's
life is as confusing as her stories are. They're really pointless. Echols
should have just concentrated on the main plot of the book rather than writing
so many stories for a creative writing class. She could've made Erin anything
but a creative writing scholar. This might be one reason that it takes all the
essence out of the book.
Secondly, there are
many things that come into view absolutely unrealistic. Echols has also over
done the stable boy thing from the beginning till the end.
Coming to Hunter, I
didn't like him much. I don't know what to think of him. Echols shows him to be
a very humble and caring guy in the beginning but somewhere near the end, when
they're back at Kentucky, she shows him as someone very mean doing it all for
money. I felt absolute indifference for him. Echols is consistent here. Just
like her other novels, she has portrayed him as yet another over possessive and
over caring guy.
And for Erin, I hated
her. She was a hypocrite and emotionally inconsistent. One moment she'd be like
'I hate his face' and the other moment she'd be like 'Is he looking at me? I
love him. Does he love me back? His presence makes me feel warm.' She was mean,
irritating, unorganised and every negative adjective in the world suits her.
However, I liked the
character of Gabe a lot. He was a nice guy.
The worst thing about
this book was its abrupt end. It ended so, so suddenly. It could have been longer
but no, she didn't do it. The novel had a pretty confusing end which irritates
the reader even more, especially after going through two hundred and seventy
pages of torture.
If you've missed this
one, you've not missed any love story.
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