Her mother seems to not care about her at all and she didn’t think anybody else did either. After graduating high school, all she wanted was to go to art school and leave it all behind. Dark-dyed hair, dark contacts hiding blue eyes and dark clothing was the way she hid herself behind the very walls she erected herself. My secret? I’d simply accepted that life was pain.”

I didn’t excel at it, and I certainly didn’t thrive at it, but I could handle life and everything it had thrown at me. “A long time ago, I’d learned I was good at “handling” life. But let me tell you what this craze-inducing book is all about… I felt every emotion coursing through me as I read each page… the well-hidden pain and disappointment, the reluctant hope, the moments of happiness and the vulnerability that began to seep through as the story continued.Īdd to it the special magic that the queen of chemistry delivers, and Nicole has us swooning, sighing and wishing our husbands would don a cowboy hat and tight-wearing Wranglers like Jesse Walker. For those of us that didn’t exactly fit in or felt askew from the norm, this story was one I related to, felt close to, and one that entrenched me its young and flawed characters. Something special. The story was original and incredibly moving. There was just something about this book. When her dark secrets refuse to stay locked behind the walls she’s kept up for years, Rowen realizes it’s not just everyone else she needs to be honest with. The more she convinces herself she doesn’t care, the harder she falls. But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. Rowen knows there’s no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl-happily-right-now is a stretch-so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she’s not sure she’s ready to feel. He’s the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded. Jesse’s like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she’d thought was frozen go boom-boom. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing. Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen’s dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. And there’s Rowen Sterling.Īfter numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school.

You gotta read this series if you haven’t yet! Jude and Lucy’s story is another one you just cannot put down!!! Crash is book 1, Clash is book 2 and Crush is book 3.

If You Like This Try: The Crash Series by Nicole Williams.

Main Characters and Casting: Rowen Sterling & Jesse Walker.

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