Title: The Truth About Jack
Author: Jody Gehrman
Genre: YA Contemporary Romance
Length: 250 pages
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Publisher: Entangled: Crush
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Synopsis:
Dakota McCloud has just been accepted into a prestigious art school. Soon she’ll leave behind the artist’s colony where she grew up – hippie dad, tofu since birth, yurt – and join her boyfriend and best friend on the East Coast.
It was the plan…until Dakota finds out her boyfriend and best friend hooked up behind her back.
Hurt and viciously betrayed, Dakota pours out her heart on a piece of paper, places it in a bottle, and hurls it into the ocean, but it doesn’t quite go where she expects…
Jack Sauvage finds the bottle washed up on the shore and responds to Dakota’s letter. Except what if his straight-laced life doesn’t jive with the free-spirited girl he’s only seen from afar? As Jack creates a persona he believes she’ll love, they slowly fall for each other with each new letter.
Now Jack is trying to find a way to make this delicate, on-paper romance happen in real life…without revealing his deception.
Review:
I am a huge fan of YA books, I like the cleanness of them, even though they are romances, they are all innocent. The Truth About Jack was exactly what I like about this genre.
I liked both Dakota and Jack’s characters and Jody Gehrman described them well.
Jack did seem like a bit of a stalker at first but getting to know him, it wasn’t long before I realised why he was like he was, home schooled after being kicked out of school and not socialising with people will make you shy. When he spots Dakota though he wants to get to know her more but he goes about it all the wrong way by pretending that he is Alejandro from Barcelona and he is travelling. The problem is Dakota starts falling for Alejandro even though she has sworn off boys and Jack knows he has to come clean.
Things get worse when Dakota’s ex and her best friend come back and she finds out the truth about Jack, will it send her back into her ex’s arms? or will she manage to forgive Jack.
I thought this was a very good book, well written and fast paced. I hope to read more from Jody Gehrman in the future.
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