Episode:Going Under by Georgia Cates

I picked the book coz of the cover and the title.  I thought it would have some paranormal stuff or it would be eerie like the books I’ve been reading this month.  But it wasn’t. It’s contemporary but I wasn’t disappointed.

It’s a high school romance about a perfect girl, rich, smart, hot, cheerleader with a quarterback boyfriend and a poor, but hot, smart guy who’s forced to sell drugs so his grandma would let him stay at the house.  It was the usual story but it was still fun, nice read.  It also had its own OMG moments, the ending. I knew Jessie wouldn’t die coz I’ve read some pages from Shallow before I started Going Under but I still went “OMG OMG OMG” after reading the last page (last page before the epilogue).

I would have liked this better if Jessie’s life was played out as hard as the Fuentes boys in Perfect Chemistry.  I would have loved to feel the danger or at least the resentment of doing something he did not really wanna do.  I also would have liked it better if they didn’t fall to fast.  Jessie wanted to steal Claire from her boyfriend and he got her but she wasn’t stolen, he had her since the first day and he easily fell for her and he dropped the idea.  Then Claire had this plan to crush Jessie, didn’t happen. It just gave her an excuse to flirt with him.  If one of those plans played out successfully, I would have liked this more. 

My favorite part of the story would probably be the scenes with Jessie’s brothers.  They are adorable.  I loved Ozzy!!!

So, I don’t mention Claire much.  It’s not that I don’t like her.  She just didn’t make much impact; she was just Jessie’s love interest.  I actually liked Payton better than Claire.  Definitely gonna read Shallow.