Ami's Hoard

I don't read a lot of Young Adult/New Adult books - so I won't really know what the usual tropes / overused plots are. But I do know what I don't like to read in my books. So I thought this one was totally enjoyable for not featuring things I don't like.

I loved both Kat and Alex as characters. The initial situation of Kat being Alec's best-friend girlfriend was treated quite nicely and it never skirted to cheating territory. It created great tension, in fact. ALTHOUGH, I did feel a bit annoyed when Alec easily forgave Max, for being the guy his ex-girlfriend cheated with but not Carrie herself. Yeah, I know, bros code or bros before girls, whatever, but still...

I loved the whole issue with Kat's learning disability; although it was weird that nobody thought it was dyslexia in the first place, considering that I guessed it right when Kat explained about her trouble the first time). I mean, dyslexia is no longer an uncommon disability, isn't it??

And, of course Alec and Kat had misunderstanding near the end (she thought he just saw her as a project to fix, he thought she was closing up on him and didn't want to get pursue further), because we all know that men and women talk different language (ha!) but I liked the way it was resolved. Even if Alec needed a little help to understand everything (go Danica!)

I loved the secondary characters too -- the friends, the family (Alec's mom, Kat's big brother). I thought Alec's lesbian best friend, Danica, was totes awesome (my favorite line from her "Monica says my idea of romance is ‘Take off your shirt.’”. I smiled, I chuckled, and I had teary eyed during some scenes (usually it involved Alec and his Mom and then Kat and her older brother)

So yes, I'm definitely in for the next book!! I can't wait to see how Max and Lea turn out to be.