By Ali Dean
Pepper Jones is ready for an epic cross country season. She wants to qualify for Nationals, and she’s willing to do anything it takes to make it happen. She can handle long miles and hill sprints, but boys? That’s an entirely different challenge.
Pepper’s never considered revealing her deeper feelings for her longtime friend, Jace Wilder. After all, he’s got the personal magnetism and good looks to hook just about any girl in town — and he has. Their friendship stands apart from high school social circles, and they’re both just fine with that (or at least they pretend to be).
That is, until running star Ryan Harding moves to town.
When it comes to running, Pepper’s goals are clear. But when it comes to Jace and Ryan, it’s nowhere near as simple.
(5 Hearts)
I’m a sucker for a best friend romance, and this didn’t disappoint!
Pepper has had a crush on her best friend Jace since the eighth grade. But now she’s a junior in high school and he is a senior, a quarterback, and the most popular guy in the school and all he sees her as is a friend. Pepper has never had a boyfriend, which she soon finds out is largely because of Jace keeping all the boys away. So when a new kid Ryan joins the school, who is also a cross country star like Pep, they have an instant connection. But suddenly Jace is acting a lot less best friendy and a lot more jelousy. Pepper is excited and starts to think maybe something could happen with them now, but soon finds out there is more going in with Jace than she knew…
I really really really liked this book. We’ve all heard the story before, it’s nothing all that new, but the characters and the connection between Pepper and Jace was off the walls explosive. And even though there was a love triangle in there, you knew who Pepper really wanted the entire time, so it didn’t really change anything- except make for some really good drama.
There were also some really cool side characters like Peppers Grandma Bunny- who was off the charts cool, and her cross country friends Zoe and Charlie.
I was up till almost 6 am reading this book, and I can’t wait for the next one!!!!
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