Tall, bearded, and always swaying, Cole Stone is everything Maeve can't be. And she likes it. Between takes, their chemistry is shockingly electric.
Suddenly, Maeve gets a taste of typical teenage dating life, but girls in wheelchairs don’t get the hot guy—right? Cole’s attention challenges everything she once believed about her self-image and hopes for love. But figuring this out, both emotionally and physically, won't be easy for either of them. Maeve must choose between what she needs and what she wants, while Cole has a tendency to avoid decisions altogether. And the future might not wait for either. (Pub Date: May 07, 2019)
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Honestly, this is a 3+ that could have been a 4 or even a 5 if things hadn't gone wrong.
Maeve has muscular dystrophy which has locked her in a wheelchair and limited her movements. But her current worry is the same as many girls her age, how can any boy feel attracted to her when she looks like that. But now handsome actor Cole Stone seems to correspond to her flirtations? As why does KC, one of her best friend, keep inviting her places?
As I mentioned, this is your usual story of a teenager not self-confident getting a chance with someone who'd usually not look her twice with a chance of love triangle. Cole isn't your usual self-absorbed popular guy, which I liked a lot, but I couldn't not see how many issues their relationship had.
To be honest, for more than half the book I was addicted. The writing was a bit confusing to me at times but I soon got used to it, and I really wanted to know where the story would lead Maeve. This isn't the love-triangle book that makes her true pairing obvious from the start, and that sure got me curious. Except that may have been its flaw.
Cole has a little bit of downsides to him, he's too bland, too lukewarm with Maeve in all of the scenes, you clearly see he's not that into her and you even suspect he isn't at all. You have no idea why he seems to lead her on. KC on the other side is super sweet and is visibly in love with her but he's got issues of his own too.
I'll be honest; the way things went, I wish Maeve would find someone else. Her relationship with KC was problematic and potentially toxic, and Cole never had a true redemption, though I did notice he warmed up to her. I wish the author would have made any of them the ideal guy, because as things were, either of them put Maeve in a place she had to settle for less. She deserved soooo much better. I know she's a teenager, that's not her happily ever after, she can go to the next guy, but this is also YA and we like thinking that yes, she found her prince charming. However, I think she found a big problem that won't be solved in a good way for her.
Back to the book, there were many issues raised about people with deficiency. It's not my place to discuss it but I surely loved to learn more, to get more to think about. Also, the author herself goes through these challenges, which should bring accuracy to the description.
This was a nice read, I will be reading more from Megale, but it's hard to recommend when it had this kind of issue. In all, I liked it but I'm afraid this is not a satisfactory story.
Honest review based on an ARC provided by Netgalley. Many thanks to the publisher for this opportunity.
Rating: 3 out of 5.
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