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(I totally did not binge and read this story for one whole day.)
Premise/Summary
Dani doesn't take garbage from anyone. Especially not from the jerk next door.
Seventeen-year-old Dani Parker can't be more excited to graduate and get out of the hellhole poor excuse of a town she lives in. With enough family drama to land her a role on a reality TV series, Dani is more than ready to leave everything behind. Her plans to lay low and enjoy the rest of her senior year take a turn when she gets new neighbours.
Meet James Hastings. Ridiculously intelligent, brooding, moody, and harbouring his own baggage, the last person he expects to befriend is the obnoxious girl next door. Through being forced to spend more time together, Dani tries to make the most of the situation while James wants nothing to do with her. James pushes Dani to her limits while Dani forces James to see the more positive side of situations.
Through navigating their own personal troubles and turmoils, the two realize there's a thin line between love and hate.
Review Proper
A. Blurb
What I like about the blurb is that it was able to encompass some things this story is about. It's not too revealing and it tells enough details about our two main characters and their eventual convergent roads.
One thing I have about the blurb, though, is that the line "forces James to see the more positive side of situations" pegged Dani as the opposite of the word "obnoxious" used at the start of the paragraph. I mean, I'm not a teen fiction expert, but it kinda creates this...discord between the idea of an "obnoxious" girl and then suddenly, "the positive side" of things. I don't know. It confused me. Lol.
Other than that, I think the blurb has done a pretty good job at introducing us to the start of the series of conflicts throughout the book and that's in the fateful meeting of Dani and James. Already, we can see the beginning of a dynamic between two interesting characters which I will discuss in the succeeding books.
B. Setting
The setting takes place in a... (I don't know if it's fictional) town of Stone Creek that functions as well...a town. What's amazing about this story is that upon the course of reading it, I didn't notice the lack of details of the characters' surroundings until I've managed to look at it again.
I'm like, wait, the author doesn't really describe stuff, did they?
Still, I wasn't going to complain about that since it had me hooked even with the lack of details. It let me imagine what the school's parking lot looked like, how the town itself looked like (which I naturally painted as one of those American towns in movies. I'm so sorry. lol.), and lastly, how a bunch of other places and settings looked like.
