Title: Besides Your Heart
Author: Mary Whitney
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Was he The One
who got away?
Late one night, Nicki Johnson plays with
emotional fire and Googles her high school love, only to find his name splashed
across the British gossip columns. Back in his native England, Adam Kincaid is
successful and dating a woman from an aristocratic family like his own. With a
career in politics, Nicki's no slouch, but she knows Adam is living a world
away from her life.
Yet there was a time he was no farther than the
next locker. Nicki will never forget their year together in high school--the
year of her sister's death, the year her mother checked out. Adam helped Nicki
through suffocating grief, and she led him through coming of age. But when is a
high school crush something more?
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We said our goodbyes, and Adam guided me to his black Honda. My stomach
did flip-flops. This had been
a very bad
idea. Lisa was right.
This was not good for me.
Adam opened my door, and I grasped for a way out. “You don’t even know
where I live. It could be really out of your way in BFE.”
“BFE? Where is that?”
“It’s just a more polite way of saying Bum Fuck
Egypt.”
“Of saying what?” He laughed.
“Oh, uh, Bum Fuck Egypt. It’s
kind of an American saying for the middle of nowhere.”
Closing his eyes for a moment,
he shook his head and grinned. “Bum. Fuck. Egypt. So you fuck someone in the
bum in Egypt and that means the middle of nowhere?”
“In the bum?”
“Bum. It’s another word for arse.”
“I never really thought of it
as being someone’s ass before.” I giggled. “You might be right, though. I
thought it was more like you were a bum and fuck
was short for fucking, as in ‘fucking
Egypt.’ Does that make sense?”
“The whole thing doesn’t make
sense, but it’s funny.” He leaned against the car door with the same look in
his eye as when we’d talked about sexual frustration in class that other day.
“You know, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard an American girl say fuck.”
I was in an eye-lock with him,
biting my tongue. I bet Meredith liked to have sex all the time, but she’d
never say fuck. “It’s not very ladylike,” I said.
“But you’re not bothered.”
“Well, I try not to say it.”
“Of course, but you don’t seem
to bother much about what people think of you.”
I looked down, wondering if
that was true, and the scar on my arm caught my eye. It was a perfect example.
With all that I’d gone through, I didn’t
fucking care. I shrugged. “Unless they’re my friends or family, it doesn’t really
matter, does it?”
“No, it doesn’t.” He rested his
chin on the door as he studied my face. I felt like I was being appraised
again. With him being British and all, I wondered if he thought I should be
more proper. Maybe that’s why he liked Meredith. A moment passed, and his voice
brightened again. “You just said you
lived by the school. So do I. Your home
can’t be that far away.”
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by Kayla
I just read Besides your heart by Mary Whitney it was a pre-proof ARC. At first I thought the book started out a little slow but then it started to get going and I started to enjoy the book. Nikki had a hard time dealing with her sister’s death. Deaths are never easy especially if no one wants to talk about it. Then she has to go back to school and face reality and she starts talking with Adam who is from England and she has all these feelings for him but he is dating someone else. The beginning and part of the middle were a lot of the same thing Nikki and Adam talking and then Adam broke up with his girlfriend and that changed things. The ending was good but I hate being left hanging. Overall this book was good, it needs some grammar fixes but that’s about it. It was a good story about growing and overcoming challenges.
Rating:
4 out of 5 stars
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Even before she graduated from law school, Mary knew she
wasn't cut out to be a real lawyer. Drawn to politics, she's spent her career
as an organizer, lobbyist, and nonprofit executive. Nothing piques her
interest more than a good political scandal or romance, and when she stumbled
upon writing, she put the two together. A born Midwesterner, naturalized
Texan, and transient resident of Washington, D.C., Mary now lives in Northern
California with her two daughters and real lawyer husband.
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