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ON THE FENCE

By: Kasie West

Genre: Y/A Romance

Year: 2014

Rate: 3.5 stars.

"For sixteen-year-old Charlotte Reynolds, aka Charlie, being raised by a single dad and three older brothers has its perks. She can outrun, outscore, and outwit every boy she knows—including her longtime neighbor and honorary fourth brother, Braden. But when it comes to being a girl, Charlie doesn't know the first thing about anything. So when she starts working at chichi boutique to pay off a speeding ticket, she finds herself in a strange new world of makeup, lacy skirts, and BeDazzlers. Even stranger, she's spending time with a boy who has never seen her tear it up in a pickup game"

I loved this book. The reading was fresh and sweet, every character was well developed and wonderful described, Charlie and her brothers, her dad, Braden, even her friends, the story was full of potential. Also it had a good plot, which at the beginning seemed so promising, and I was really hooked with the narrative.

Then why just 3.5 stars? well I think the writer failed to capitalize the story; the incident involving Charlie's mother; which kept us intrigued throughout the story, it was resolved very quickly and not convincingly. Besides I didn´t agree with Charlie's reaction, she is a teenager who was tricked all his life, that is why she should be angry with his family, but she wasn´t. On the other han

d Charlie´s conversation with her father was not at all emotional, and even kind of boring, I think this is the reason why it wasn´t convincing her feeling about to be broken, in fact she didn´t react like that.

I think that the plot was so great and it wasn´t worked properly, at the end it was disappointing, I wanted more, the story could be more.

Nevertheless, I did enjoy the writing style and probably “On the fence” is going to be one of the books which I´ll reread the best parts, because Charlie and Braden scenes were lovely.

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