I'll meet you there by Heather Demetrios book review

Hello Everyone, 

how are you today? I wanted to write this review since the minute I finished reading this book, but I didn't had the time back in August, so I finally decided to do it. Throughout last week I tried to collect all my thoughts about the story and the characters, so here we are. I'll meet you there by Heather Demetrios is not just a contemporary romance book as I heard it before. Going into it I thought it will be a fluffy, typical, YA romance book, but soon it turned out it, is so much more than that.

What the book is about:

If seventeen-year-old Skylar Evans were a typical Creek View girl, her future would involve a double-wide trailer, a baby on her hip, and the graveyard shift at Taco Bell. But after graduation, the only thing standing between straightedge Skylar and art school are three minimum-wage months of summer. Skylar can taste the freedom―that is, until her mother loses her job and everything starts coming apart. Torn between her dreams and the people she loves, Skylar realizes everything she's ever worked for is on the line.

Nineteen-year-old Josh Mitchell had a different ticket out of Creek View: the Marines. But after his leg is blown off in Afghanistan, he returns home, a shell of the cocksure boy he used to be. 

What brings Skylar and Josh together is working at the Paradise―a quirky motel off California's dusty Highway 99. Despite their differences, their shared isolation turns into an unexpected friendship and soon, something deeper.

My thoughts on the book:

Yes, there is  romance in this book, a cute one actually, but for me it was the least significant part of the story. It deals with so many, more important topics. Let's start with Josh, since he was by far one of my favorite characters in this book. His personality is the most interesting. I don't see young "boys" coming back from war in YA often. Or I haven't read a book, which featured a character like this. I think Josh is one of the toughest characters I read in YA. He translated to me as a fighter, as a person who has a goal in life, who found a cause he would die for. Not a lot of people find that goal in their lives. And not a lot of people would continue fighting for it after loosing a leg. Especially not as a 19 year old young person. And I especially found his chapters interesting. I wish there was more from his point of view, but at the same time I liked it was just peek into his mind from time to time.

Skylar is a young person, who wants to get out of her little town. And I have to say I understood her really much. I think at age, almost every person feels like exploring a world. At some point everyone wants to be independent. And that's why Skylar is so relatable to me. 

And my other favorite character was Dylan. While every friend of hers wants to get out, she is perfectly happy where she is. She doesn't have much, but she loves it. It couldn't be easy to watch all of your friends complain about the place you'll probably live for the rest of your life. But she is strong and knows what she wants. I liked that there was friend like this in Skylar's life.

And the Paradise motel... I loved, that it was differently themed in every room. I would totally go there, if it would be an existing place. Also, somehow it seemed like the center of everything to me and I was always toying with the idea of hanging out in a motel or in a hotel all the time (hello, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody), I think I got that from my Dad. We both would move into a hotel or even to airport, because there are so many people from different places and it's so good to talk with all these different people.

Altogether I really enjoyed this book, although I didn't necessary think the romance was needed in order to tell the story of these two characters. It was a cute addition to the story and it just made it enjoyable.

So this was my short review, I hope you enjoyed it. If you have read this book feel free to share your opinion in the comments and I'll see you next week.

Bye,

Bianka

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