The Truth About Jack by Jody Gehrman Genres: Coming of Age, Contemporary Romance
Published by Entangled: Crush Publication Date: 14 April 2015
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Dakota McCloud has just been accepted into a prestigious art school. Soon she'll leave behind the artists' 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.
Rina’s Thoughts
This was a beautiful book about two teenagers finding their niche in life. Thye are both artistically talented all expected to go to the school for their skills but one email changes both their lives. Dakota’s friend and boyfriend betray her and she’s thrown into a loop, stars to question everything in her life and wonders if she was destined to always be hurt. Personally, I think it was very big of her to speak with them without inflicting some serious damage. For Jack, Dakota was what pushed him out of his axis but for a boy who barely knows love in his life even from his own parents, it was understandable the dumb decisions he made.
They gravitate to each other and I love that they were just lightly dating, right up to the very end when they finally get together. It was great to see their journey to the people they wanted to be making the choices for their own lives.
Shannon
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