I know this is a YA novel, but lawd I have not read one with such immaturity in a long while. His whole characterization was a flop, from the gross sexual organ references to plain immorality. Since this book is told in dual POV this was more than a little unfortunate. Excuse me while I go barf! There is nothing about Grayson I liked. I mean, this guy calls his own hair cool and reminisces on when he and his friends used to walk the school halls “like fucking rock stars”. I’m sure my dislike for Grayson played into my complete disinterest in the romance from the start. This was the first sign that I should have listened to. This insta-love was in its purest eyeroll-inducing form. I have very rarely seen cases of insta-love - or instant somethings - where I could actually feel a genuine connection forming between two characters, The Promise of Amazing was not one of them. Is insta-love ever a good idea? One where with only a handful of pages two people have already felt that they are experiencing the beginning of something “real"? Something that would change their lives? Pffft! Well ok even if this stuff can - or so I’m told - happen in real life, I need a lot more substance to convince me in fiction.
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