*ARC copy provided by Netgalley*
Rating: 4/5 Stars
Recommend: sure!
Synopsis: Eric Matua has one friend—his best friend and childhood sweetheart, who needs a place to stay for the summer. Mia Johnson has thousands of friends—who live in her computer. Along with her email chats and Facebook notifications, Mia also devours romance novels, spending countless hours with fictional characters, dreaming of her own Romeo to sweep her off her feet. When she starts receiving supersweet messages from a stranger who thinks she’s someone else, Mia begins to believe that real love is possible outside her virtual world.
When the two friends become roommates, Mia finds herself falling harder than she ever thought she could. But Eric keeps his desires locked away, unsure of himself and his ability to give his best friend what she deserves in a boyfriend. As her advances are continually spurned, Mia splits her time between Eric and her computer. But she soon realizes she’s about to lose the only real thing she’s ever had.
Review: The story follows best friends Mia and Eric, who have been besties since high school. After high school Eric moved away to Samoa and after three years decided to go home to Florida. He spends the summer in his mothers beach house and Mia ends up joining him for the summer. Problem is, they've both had crushes on each other for as long as they could remember. When things start to heat up they have to figure out how to keep their friendship while also falling in love with each other.
This was a good book, it was my first by Cassie Mae and I have to say that I loved her writing style and how she didn't shy away from writing certain situations and how she made it seem like such a real relationship. Nothing seemed far fetched and everything that Eric did made sense with all the problems he had. I liked this one a lot and will be picking up more Cassie Mae books in the future.
What I Liked: I loved that Eric was the one with the problems. Most of the time in these books it's the girl with the issues that pertain to their body or mental illness it was refreshing to see these problems from the male perspective. The romance was adorable and I love how Mia loved Eric even when he wasn't the most in shape person, and how their crushes grew even stronger with distance. Mia's internet addiction was shown in a very real and authentic way, I know because I've been there and I liked how she overcame that obstacle in her life. It was also cute how each chapter starts with a Facebook status, I liked that very much.
What I Didn't Like: I wish we had seen more of Eve and Rachel, I really loved them as characters and I even grew fond of Tolani and his son. Going along with the previous sentence, I wish we could have seen more secondary characters to break up always seeing Mia and Eric together. I found the Scott story line pretty pointless with were I went, I would have like it much better if he had turned into a stalker or something sinister. Eric got over his anxiety really fast and was able to sleep with Mia, I don't think he'd be able to go from barely touching her to full on sleeping so quickly but I guess I don't really know personally how that works. I also would have liked to see more interaction with Mia's dad, they had a very sweet relationship and I would have liked to learn more about it and about what happened to Mia's mother.
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