This is the second book in the series that begins with Off Campus, and as with that book, I liked the idea of this story more than the execution of it. It’s the story of a college kid named Jack who has to return to his small hometown in disgrace after his college experience doesn’t go quite as he expected it to. Once home again, he has to confront the high school boyfriend who he left behind three years earlier.
This story felt like it either needed to be significantly shorter and less complicated, or a legitimate slow burn as they rediscovered who they were and fell in love again while finally dealing with their respective family problems that had been impossible during high school. Instead, the fights they had didn’t quite seem to match up with their history, and as a result the resolution also feels a bit flat.
I did really like Jack's high school boyfriend Miguel, and the depiction of his family. But on the whole this was the sort of book that I ended up rewriting it in my head as I read it in order to make it land emotionally the way I wanted it to. So much potential, but not quite a winner for me.
Grade: C
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