Review: Where You'll Find Me by Erin Fletcher and Day 6 Updates

Title: Where You'll Find Me
Author:Erin Fletcher
Publication: January 7th 2014 by Entangled: Teen
Genre: YA Contemporary
Source: Owned
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When Hanley Helton discovers a boy living in her garage, she knows she should kick him out. But Nate is too charming to be dangerous. He just needs a place to get away, which Hanley understands. Her own escape methods (vodka, black hair dye, and pretending the past didn't happen) are more traditional, but who is she to judge?

Nate doesn't tell her why he's in her garage, and she doesn't tell him what she's running from. Soon, Hanley's trading her late-night escapades for all-night conversations and stolen kisses. But when Nate's recognized as the missing teen from the news, Hanley isn't sure which is worse: that she's harboring a fugitive, or that she's in love with one.

-- My Rating --

4/5 Oscars: Really liked it

-- My Thoughts --

     The author is entirely new to me, I didn't even read a review of this book before reading it. But now that I have read a couple of reviews, and they seem almost-negative, I wanted to put out my word on the greatness of this book, to balance it out a bit.
     Hanley's life changed one fateful day and she has never been the same since then. Then one day, she finds out a boy is living in her garage. Nate is nothing like the boys she knows and he is everything she didn't know she needed. But she never knew that by keeping a fugitive in her garage, she would actually give away her heart, too.
     Hanley is a beautiful name, isn't it? I actually loved her name since the first sentence, it's just not something you hear everyday. Original. So is the story. I read a couple of reviews that say Hanley's actions were unrealistic and not forgivable. The girl has been through a lot of trauma in her life, and everyone has a different coping mechanism. Hanley's mechanism is drinking and partying late every night. It's just the way she deals.
     Then, there's her parents. They are, as many reviewers stated, too ignorant. They are so caught up in their own lives that they don't notice their daughter slipping away from them. The author handled this subject really well and instead of showing a perfectly happy family, she made us see what a dysfunctional family is really like and how to treat it. Plus, I loved the interactions between Hanely and her sister, Heather, as they grew closer more and more.
     The romance in this book was at its peak. I loved Nate and Hanley together, they were like two missing puzzle pieces that fit together perfectly. They both grow through a lot of hardship in this book, and you can see their development, individually and together.
     The only thing that irked me a little bit and made me give this book four stars, was the whole hiding a person in the garage thing. Yes, every other aspect I loved, but this one was a bit too unrealistic, there's just NO way that no family member will figure out that there's someone living in their garage. Aside from that, this book is perfect for fans of the romance genre. Ladies, that includes most of us.

-- Day 6 Updates: BOUT OF BOOKS --

Number of pages read: 450 pages
Books read: Oceanborn by Amalie Howard, Day 21 by Kass Morgan
Total number of books read: 3
Today #insixwords: QUITE SATISFIED WITH MY READING TODAY