Review: The Lonesome Young

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Get swept away in the first book of the sensational romantic drama that is Romeo & Juliet meets Justified.

WHAT HAPPENS when the teenage heirs of two bitterly FEUDING FAMILIES can’t stay away from each other?

The Rhodales and the Whitfields have been sworn enemies for close on a hundred years, with a whole slew of adulterous affairs, financial backstabbing, and blackmailing that’s escalated the rivalry to its current state of tense ceasefire.

IT’S TIME TO LIGHT THE FUSE . . .

And now a meth lab explosion in rural Whitfield County is set to reignite the feud more viciously than ever before. Especially when the toxic fire that results throws together two unlikely spectators—proper good girl Victoria Whitfield, exiled from boarding school after her father’s real estate business melts down in disgrace, and town motorcycle rebel Mickey Rhodale, too late as always to thwart his older brothers’ dangerous drug deals.

Victoria and Mickey are about to find out the most passionate romances are the forbidden ones.

. . . ON A POWDER KEG FULL OF PENT-UP DESIRE, risk-taking daredevilry, and the desperate actions that erupt when a generation of teens inherits nothing but hate.

This is an awesome book!

Plot: This is a basically modern day Romeo & Juliet story. It totally captures the reader with the drama and how far it reaches. This plot spans generations of family members and hate. One thing I really love about this book is the background history on both families. Older generations know about the rift between the families but the younger generations don’t know or understand why. They are just taught to hate the other family and to not ask questions.  This only fuels me as the reader to want to know why.

Love: Another aspect I really enjoyed is the great friendship/love buildup between Victoria and Mickey. From the very beginning you can tell that they are much different than the family around them. They strive to be different and to be more. Both of them strive to help others then themselves and really just want to be able to live their own lives without being in the shadow or feud in their family. Because of the way they were raised, there are some issues regarding trust between them. Eventually, they learn that they are both on the same side and fight for each other.

Ending: This is the only area of the story that I did not like. I honestly felt like the ending is rushed. I’m crossing my fingers that there will be a squeal because the story can not end like that. There is so much more that needs to be told. Not to mention that I want to see Victoria and Mickey live a happily ever after.

Overall, this is an fantastic book! I completely adore it and I’m so hoping that there is more. I loved watching theses two fight and love one another. Their friendship is beyond what I normally read and love how well they match each other. The Lonesome Young is a fabulous read!

I give it 5 BITES!

Happy Reading!