I like that Jared is attractive but not as handsome as Bronwen’s evil ex, Chad, who pressured her to have sex on Prom night. And when she breaks her engagement, it is her stepfather who provides the comfort and reassurance she needs, not her mother. This helps her realize that she wants a normal college life more than she wants or needs the security of being married. She floats through her whole senior year in a pleasant haze and does not emerge until she received the housing questionnaire from Hope and suddenly realizes she will be living off campus with Jared instead of in a dorm sharing her innermost thought with friends. Bronwen gives up aspirations to any college other than Hope College in Michigan (I was surprised to learn this is a real college) because she has made friends while visiting Jared there and feels at home. Perhaps because Jared’s father and Bronwen’s father are business partners, no one seems to object to the age difference, and by the end of the summer they are engaged. ” When Jared appears, attractive, relaxed, attentive, and very romantic – his last words on the phone every night are “Dream of me” – Bronwen is more than ready to fall in love with Jared and with his family. How else can she explain why she and her mother can barely communicate? (and there is something really bizarre about the way her mother had Bronwen’s brown hair colored blonde as a 13th bday present, then comments, “Finally, I see a resemblance. Can she finally move on with her life by starting a new life with Jared?īronwen is a nice, normal, hard-working high school student, with a best friend Kristen, and mild fantasies about having been switched at birth. Jared’s love and attentiveness almost makes up for Bronwyn’s lingering sorrow at the loss of her father.
His warm and affectionate family welcomes her, and Jared surprises her with an engagement ring on her 18th birthday. Surprisingly, it is mutual, despite four years age difference. Then during the summer between her junior and senior year of high school she runs into her older brother’s best friend, Jared Sondervan, and falls madly for him. Plot: Seventeen year old Bronwen Oliver has felt alienated from her family since her father died when she was a child, and her mother remarried Bronwen’s kind but detached stepfather. Publication: Scholastic 2010, ISBN 978-83 I put this on my TBR when I saw it was a RITA nominee, and really enjoyed it: I have been reading but not blogging during the last few busy months at work.
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