Series: None
Author: Jenny McLachlan
Published March 8th 2018 by Bloomsbury
Goodreads Synopsis
Annie is starting college. She can’t wait. No more school, no more uniform, and no one telling her what to do. It’s the start of a new adventure and Annie’s not going to let anyone or anything get in the way of that. Freedom matters to Annie. She has cerebral palsy and she’s had to fight hard to get the world to see her for who she truly is.
Then she meets Fab. He’s six foot two, Polish and a passionate believer in…well, just about everything, but most of all Annie and good old fashioned romance. The moment Fab sees Annie, he’s wildly drawn to her and declares she must be his girl. Annie’s horrified. She doesn’t want to be anyone’s anything, especially if it means losing her independence.
But then Annie finds herself falling for Fab. As things go deeply wrong, Annie realises that love can make you do wild, crazy things, and so she sets out to win his heart with a romantic gesture of truly epic proportions!
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Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher. This in no way impacted on my view.
Finding freedom with her choice of college, Annie has no plans to settle down, and get a boyfriend. Free from uniforms, from expectations, from her peers knowing her as only the girl with cerebral palsy, Annie loves the train ride to sixth form, and her freedom to make her way around in whatever way she wishes. But when she is paired with Fab in English, studying Wuthering Heights, she soon realises that all Fab wants is a good old fashioned romance, and Annie is the one he has his heart on. Soon though, Annie finds that she's loving spending time with Fab, and his Polish family, and she may, just may, be falling for him in return.
Well, I'm going to hold my hands up and admit this is a book I completely forgot about on my kindle, so when I wasn't too fussed with what my next book was, I picked a random one, and this popped up. I liked Annie to a certain extent. She had faced so much in her school years, and though people weren't actively horrible to her about her disability, she still had to be strong and hide how much it hurt to be treated differently. Being at college with new people, she could make new friends, and create a new 'Annie'. Having a boyfriend is not in her plans, so when Fab appears, all eccentric and clearly falling for her, she's immediately annoyed, and can be a little hurtful too. Fab was definitely over the top, and honestly, I would not want to be friends with him in real life, but I feel like he was exactly what Annie needed to come out of her shell, and enjoy college more. A nice read about the transition from school to college, and gaining some independence.
Dates Read:
October 13-15, 2022
Rating
3 Stars
