“Oh my god, you slept with her?” I gasp out.
“NO!” he yells, and everyone cracks up. “NO! What? God
… No!” he says again, shivering and making a disgusted face.
“Then what?” I ask.
He presses his lips together, as if refusing to speak.
I make an exasperated sound, and turn to the rest of them, eyes wide, pleading
someone to finish the story.
Heidi starts to giggle, and everyone joins in.
“What? WHAT HAPPENED?” I need to know.
Heidi calms herself down. “Homegirl had an engagement
ring on the dash board—a male engagement ring. She proposed to him!” She’s
struggling to keep talking through her laughter. “She proposed to him, naked, in the back seat of his truck,
with people all around!”
“NO!” I gasp, looking at Jake, bewilderment clear in
my voice. He just nods his head slowly, his thumb stroking my stomach.
“What did you do?” I ask him, but he just shakes his
head. I look to everyone else. “What did he do?”
“This is the best part,” Cam
continues. “He gets so freaked out, he jumps out of the car, and starts to run
home. It was an away game! It took
him five hours to walk home. He left everything in his truck. His phone,
wallet, gear bag, everything. He couldn’t call anyone. He was so freaked to go
back to the truck, in case she was still there waiting for him, or if the ring
was still there. We didn’t drive out to pick it up until a week later. He went
a week without a car, because he was so freaked out.”
“That’s just one of the stories,” Dylan adds. “There’s
like, a hundred more just as crazy.”
I’m laughing so hard now my sides hurt.
I’d almost forgotten what we’re all doing here.
And then I remember, and stop myself from laughing.
Because today is
not a laughing day.
Jake brings his hand up to my face and kisses my
temple. “You can laugh and be happy, Kayla. They would want you to be.”
I smile and kiss him on the cheek.
Logan takes a huge gulp of his beer and
then belches, fingers pointing between Jake and me. Heidi and Lucy groan in
disgust.
“I’m going to ignore this epic, ovary explosive,
sexual tension thing you guys have going on and ask a question.”
I stifle a laugh against Jake's neck, while he rolls
his eyes at Logan.
“Ask your question, asshole,” he says as he rubs his nose
against my jaw. God, that accent, and
that voice.
My eyes close for a second. I think my ovaries will explode.
“Why does he call get to call you Kayla, and everyone
else calls you Micky?”
I shrug. “Because my family called me Kayla.”
My Review: 5 stars
ENGLISH:
When I found out that this was
the first novel by Jay McLean I was very surprised because she has entered the
literary world like an earthquake, with a novel that touches the most intimate parts
of the reader's heart.
The book is narrated from Mikayla
and Jake´s point of view, every time the name at the beginning tell us who will
be narrating, this makes reading easily even though the voices of Kayla and
Jake are distinguishable. The fact of being able to see both points of view
gave an interesting twist to the book. The author has managed to get perfectly
on the head of each of her. I loved all the characters except 3 and I cannot
say much because I do not want to spoil anything.
The chemistry between Mikayla
and Jake is electrifying, I am not sure how they didn´t ended up in spontaneous combustion. And
the hot scenes created sparks,I felt like I was in the room with them. I need
to prevent that the hot scenes could cause heart attacks. Although, one weeks
ago I read the book I have yet Jake fever because I cannot stop thinking about
Jake. Once you read about him, he gets under your skin. Mikayla is one of the
characters that I've been more jealous of, obviously for Jake, and I would bet
that more than half of the girls who have read had felt the same. This book has
completely ruined the other guys for me. The word more has acquired a new
meaning after reading this book. Now I can´t settle with less than more, I want
more than more!
One of the things I liked about
the book was that it is not just a book about love, but there are also other issues
such as friendship, loss, forgiveness, lies and the importance of family. Till
this book I haven´t understood the meaning of what a kiss really means. It is a
book that as well as entertain, teach. It is a very complete book.
After reading many reviews I've
seen some people that do not like the use of slang, I believe that slang brings
realism to the story, because today you just have to listen to teenagers to know that they speak in that way or even
worse. Another thing that I really liked is that it is a very modern novel.
The ending was totally
unexpected and left me with mixed feelings about it, and I cannot wait to read
More Than Her.
SPANISH:
Cuando me entere de
que está era la primera novela de Jay McLean estuve muy sorprendida porque ha
entrado en el mundo literario como un terremoto, haciendo una novela que llega
a tocar hasta los rincones más íntimos del corazón del lector.
El libro está narrado desde el punto de vista
de Mikayla y Jake, cada vez que cambiaba la narración el nombre al principio
nos dice quién va a estar narrando, esto facilita la lectura aunque las voces
de Kayla y Jake son fácilmente diferenciables.
El hecho de poder ver
ambos puntos de vista le dio un toque interesante al libro. La autora ha sabido
meterse perfectamente en la cabeza de cada uno de sus personajes y es que algo
que me ha pasado muchas veces es que algunos autores usan puntos de vista que
parece que el mismo personaje está hablando. Me encantaron todos los personajes
excepto 3 y tampoco puedo decir mucho porque no quiero hacer spoilers
.
La química que existe
entre Mikayla y Jake es electrizante, no sé cómo no acabaron en combustión
espontánea. Y las escenas calientes soltaban tantas chispas que hasta parecía
que estaba yo con ellos en la habitación. He de advertir una cosa, las escenas
calientes no son aptas para cardiacos. A pesar de que hace ya 1 semana que leí
el libro todavía tengo Jake fever y es que no puedo parar de pensar en Jake,
porque una vez que lees sobre él, se mete debajo de la piel. Mikayla es uno de
los personajes de los que más celosa he estado, obviamente por Jake, y me
atrevería a apostar que más de la mitad de las chicas que lo hayan leído
estarán igual. Este libro ha arruinado por completo los otros chicos para mí.
La palabra más ha
adquirido un nuevo significado después de leer este libro. Ahora no puedo conformarme
con menos que más, quiero más que más!
Una de las cosas que
más me gusto del libro fue que no es sólo un libro de amor, sino que también
aparecen otros temas como la amistad, la pérdida, la familia, el perdón, la
mentira y la importancia de la familia. Hasta este libro no había entendido el
significado de lo que realmente significa un beso. Es un libro que además de
entretener, enseña. Es un libro muy completo.
Tras haber leído
muchas reseñas he visto que a bastante gente no le gusta el uso del slang, yo
en cambio creo que le aporta mayor realismo a la historia, y es que hoy en día
sólo hay que escuchar a los adolescentes de hoy en día para saber que hablan
así e incluso peor. Otra cosa que me gusto mucho es que es una novel muy
actual. Me encanta leer y a la vez sentirme identificada y saber de lo que
hablan los personajes.
El final fue
totalmente inesperado y me dejó con sentimientos encontrados al respecto, y no
puedo esperar a leer More Than Her.
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