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Love Story

Love Story, July 2011
by Jennifer Echols

Mtv
Featuring: Hunter Allen; Erin Blackwell
256 pages
ISBN: 1439178321
EAN: 9781439178324
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"A Story Within A Story"

Fresh Fiction Review

Love Story
Jennifer Echols

Reviewed by Kathyrn Little
Posted November 13, 2011

Young Adult

Could you walk away from a million dollar inheritance? Erin Blackwell proves that she can. Refusing to become a business major to cater to her overbearing grandmother, Erin instead turns to her one true love, English. Erin does have a gift, one that is demonstrated as soon as the reader opens the book. Erin creates stories that have the possibility of winning her a much sought-after internship. The only roadblock? Hunter Allen.

Hunter, the stable boy from Erin's grandmother's farm as well as the stable boy in Erin's romance short stories, has the ability to pop her dreams like a bubble. Due to Erin's refusal to become a business major, Hunter has agreed to step up to the task and receives all of the benefits that come with it. He flashes his Rolex, has plenty of money to throw around, and attends an expensive school. Overall, he appears to live to ruin Erin's life. However, could she also have just the teensiest of crushes on him? And how does he feel about her?

Erin's character is likable and funny at times, she can be a tad dramatic, but she often has a right to be. Hunter's character can appear selfish and overbearing, but he does appear to genuinely care for Erin and looks out for her. The reader will be quietly rooting for them throughout the novel. The secondary characters play a fairly large part as compared to other novels, they serve to further the plot and keep the plot moving at a fast pace.

The events of this book ranged from exciting to sad to hopeful. This book will be a perfect read for young adult readers, even for adults.

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SUMMARY

SHE’S WRITING ABOUT HIM. HE’S WRITING ABOUT HER. AND EVERYBODY IS READING BETWEEN THE LINES.

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 local 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.


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