Book Review: Love Story by Jennifer Echols

Love Story by Jennifer Echols

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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 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.
My thoughts:    
     It was definitely what I didn’t expect it to be. What a love story! A confusing, weird, romantic, bittersweet, modern love story. The ending was cut out too early for me though..very hanging...made the reader fill in the blanks for the ending. The story was romantically serious and cute. Erin and Hunter were two in-denial people who ended up wasting lots of years lost because of this gap. The story ended in a very uncommon way. Yes, the point that they realized they loved each other all along happened, and there were the usual some complications, then the pretension, the consequences (which wasn’t much and not clearly defined), the confrontation..but these complications weren’t really resolved in the end, it’s like they were just civil, and the last page was a happy ending, yes, but it left it up to the reader what exactly will happen next. It was so obscured I wanna cry with frustration!.. I guess, their love was still hanging somewhere there....
     Anyway, it’s so funny reading a story where the protagonist is also an aspiring writer, who has talent but has some issues in her life that greatly affects her writing. I can relate to her so much about writing and imagining a lot, matchmaking here and there, finishing unrequited love and vague moves in my head. Back to the book, truth be told, the ending made me thought that the author of the novel “Love Story" is Erin in which she pieced up her short stories and Hunters’ and just filled the in-betweens with what’s happening in reality (which was what she described in the end and she named her portfolio “Love Story”, so that’s the reason why I thought that..Anyway, I was confused many times in the story. There was a time where I thought they already confessed with each other but then it wasn’t that at all...Ah. it’s such a convoluting and twisted ending, I can’t get over!.., but I loved the romance, and the realistic beat in the novel. I don’t know how Jennifer Echols does it, but I still love her writing despite the ending:).

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