NEVER SWEETER CHARLOTTE STEIN
Tate Sullivan is haunted by regret over his cruelty toward Letty. So when she agrees to work with him, he seizes his chance to make amends. He can’t blame her for not believing he’s for real, but soon Tate starts to break down her wall. She wants to know about passion, desire, lust—topics he is well versed in. And in return she offers the one thing he always wanted: the chance to be more than just a jock.
Letty is shocked by how sensitive Tate can be. Still, desiring him feels ludicrous. Loving him is impossible. Craving him is beyond all reason. So why can’t she stop?
MY REVIEW:
Was a very interesting book of a coming of
age couple. These two went to school
together for a long time. But in high
school things were not good at all. In fact,
you could say they were terrible.
Letty Carmichael has always been a curvy
girl and a little unsure of herself and her looks. So when in high school the class bully
singled her out at every turn she would pull into herself even more. Making her
trip over her own book bag, following her almost lying in wait, so on the, not
of her not attempted murder as they called it or as it ended up being called an
accident. Tate Sullivan, his two friends
were present too, Jason and Patrick.
Jason was the one behind the wheel, which gave her hope, thinking he had
the most sense. Well, she was
wrong. But she never thought in a
million years he would try and run her over.
You see her car had broken down and rather
than call her dad she had called and left a message for her friends for
help. She wanted to be the responsible
senior on the verge of graduation who could handle her own problems. After all she was going to be going away to
college. So she started walking
home. She left her Camaro on the side of
the road and moved toward home. She had
passed the bluffs not too far back where she saw Tate throwing something at
Jason. But now she could hear them
coming up behind her. She knew they were
going to pull a stunt on her it was not a good night for her. She just knew it.
She tried to walk faster and hide herself
by crossing her arms across her middle. She
knew she was too big a target she was a curvy girl with big boobs, butt, and
hips. Her thighs alone rubbed so how
would she think she would get her arms to hide her? When she heard honking and hollering she knew
she was in trouble. They were yelling, “Fatty,
thunder thighs, and flabby!” Then she tried
to speed up. She only jiggled for her
trouble not a help. Then she heard them
throw something. She knew it was Tate
since he was always the one who took things too far, always.
Something inside her knew they were going
to run her over, the scared part of her brain said it. Seeing Jason behind the wheel gave her hope
that was misplaced. Because in her head
it would have been Tate doing it or telling him to. So instead of being scared she got
angry. Just stopping. No more backing down! No more going the other way! She came to a dead stop! Then she just stared at them. The three boys who had made high school hell
just were looking at her.
They stopped laughing and hollering. All she could hear was the wind coming off
the bluffs which was behind her, rattle of the trees. For a minute she thought how nice the quiet
was. When Jason revived the engine
twice. Her warning shot, she knows now. They were going to do it! The bullies that had made her miserable because
they actually were going to hit her with the truck. She went over the bluffs to the jagged rocks
to a bloody silence. They tried to kill
her and NO ONE COULD EVER TELL HER DIFFERENT.
Fast forward two years, Letty is finally
at tiny Breckenridge College after two years of hospitals, surgeries, and
therapy. She has made it to the other
side. When she thinks she is
hallucinating. She is really hoping it
is the lighting in the classroom. What
other explanation can there be for Tate Sullivan to be there when he should be
a million miles away? Like at Stanford?
There weren’t to many people as big as
Tate. Tate stood at six feet five inches
in bare feet and his shoulders were huge.
Her emotions were betraying her as she side glanced him because he was
so ugly and handsome at the same time.
His butter soft mouth and brutal jaw at the same time. Then there were his soft focus blue eyes that
should not go with his busted nose. Then
there were his jug ears. Which made her think
of all that he had done to torment her right?
She was scared and torn wanting to be the better person…
Tate comes to this with his own set of
issues which this author gives you the story from his POV also. There were some things I would have like more
clear cut, like why Jason hit her? What
did Tate do for those two years? Also a
prologue would have been nice.
This is a total coming of sexual age book
and a how to manual of how to please your partner. But also an eye opener if parents are
thinking your kids are not having sex by Tate’s answer to being a virgin. Amazing.
Ladies and gentlemen to you will need your fans for this one but overall
a good story. I give this book 4
stars. Provided by netgalley.com. Follow us at:
www.1rad-readerreviews.com.
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