Book Description:
One kiss could have changed Abby's life, but when it didn't happen, she ran. Jack was everything to her and when he didn't respond, Abby couldn't bear it. Everything about that night--leaning in close to his face, feeling the night breeze teasing her hair, the way his scent filled her head--was burned vividly into her mind, including the moment when Jack pulled away. There was no kiss. Abby was wrong. She was wrong about him, wrong about them.
Maybe she didn't have to go to college two thousand miles away, but she did. She had to forget about him. Abby threw herself off the grid, disappearing completely from the life she knew. After completing her undergraduate degree, she enrolled in seminary. All contact with her old life was severed and she never looked back, until she was forced to.
When Abby puts idealism into practice, her congregation throws her out. If she can survive a year on her own, they'll take her back, and continue to pay off her student loans--but if she fails, Abby is on her own with enough debt to fund a small town. Seminary wasn't cheap. With no place left to go, Abby returns to New York and her best friend takes her in.
Desperate to make it on her own and prove she was right, Abby follows a job lead to an art studio on Long Island. It isn't until she hears Jack's voice that she freezes. The hairs on the back of her neck prickle as she turns to see Jack, ten years later, looking even more tempting than before.
Fate is cruel. Abby left this life behind, but she's thrown back into it, head first. It's like someone hit rewind on her life and its ten years earlier. She's the cotton-mouthed girl that she always was around Jack, and now her future relies on the man who rejected her.
My Review:
I actually really enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. When I first read the description and saw it was about a nun/preacher who ran away after high school because a boy didn't kiss her back, I was like 'eh..'. However, I am so glad I decided to take a try on it because once I started reading I couldn't stop. I had to know if Jack really felt something for her all those years ago or not.
WARNING - SPOILERS BELOW
Once I got into reading the book I kept looking down at the corner of my kindle to see how far into the book I was, because I got confused when about half-way into the book they were already putting all their cards out there and coming together as a couple.
I kept thinking the point of the book would be for them to get together, right? So why would they be getting together in the middle of the book?
Then BAM... the scandal happens and my heart broke into a million pieces for Abby and Jack.
I didn't like Abby questioning Jack's love for her when everything in the media was saying he used her, and I also didn't like her best friend also telling her he used her. However, I understand why it needed to play out that way and I really enjoyed how Abby threw them calling her stupid and naive in their faces when she saved Jack in the end.
At the start of the book I would have guessed the scandal was going to happen before they got together, and would have guessed it had something to do with Belinda. I am still a little confused on everything that happened between Jack and Belinda. I felt Jack gave a very vague answer to his problems with Belinda to Abby when they were on the beach after Belinda showed up at the studio.
Maybe the author left this open for Scandalous 2? Maybe we'll learn more about Belinda in the second part?
Scandalous Book 2
February 14, 2013
Ooh, scandal! Fun!
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