The Lonesome Young
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4.5 • 8 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
"My new favorite bad boy meets good girl romance--I loved this book!" -- Simone Elkeles, New York Times bestselling author
WHAT HAPPENS when the teenage heirs of two bitterly FEUDING FAMILIES can’t stay away from each other?
The Rhodales and the Whitfields have been sworn enemies for close on a hundred years, with a whole slew of adulterous affairs, financial backstabbing, and blackmailing that’s escalated the rivalry to its current state of tense ceasefire.
IT’S TIME TO LIGHT THE FUSE . . .
And now a meth lab explosion in rural Whitfield County is set to reignite the feud more viciously than ever before. Especially when the toxic fire that results throws together two unlikely spectators—proper good girl Victoria Whitfield, exiled from boarding school after her father’s real estate business melts down in disgrace, and town motorcycle rebel Mickey Rhodale, too late as always to thwart his older brothers’ dangerous drug deals.
Victoria and Mickey are about to find out the most passionate romances are the forbidden ones.
. . . ON A POWDER KEG FULL OF PENT-UP DESIRE, risk-taking daredevilry, and the desperate actions that erupt when a generation of teens inherits nothing but hate.
Get swept away in the first book of the sensational romantic drama that is Romeo & Juliet meets Justified.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's Romeo and Juliet with a Kentucky horse country twist when wealthy Victoria Whitfield and "tall, dark, and definitely dangerous" Mickey Rhodale fall for each other in this romantic drama from Connors, who writes adult fiction as Alesia Holliday and Alyssa Day. The feud between the gritty Rhodales and the well-to-do Whitfields dates back generations, and it's still going strong. As the push and pull of the teenagers' romance escalates, Connors complicates matters with lots of fighting, drug-dealing, problems with Victoria's older sister, smalltown claustrophobia, and all-around contempt for the Rhodales among the locals. Told in chapters that alternate between Mickey's gruff, hard-edged narration and Victoria's more na ve and reticent prose, the novel leans heavily on stereotypical genre conventions, including fiery gazes and talk of "hard muscle," cleavage, miles-long legs, and "lush parted lips." Readers looking to sink into the vicarious pleasures of a very familiar "good girl meets bad boy" love affair should find it easy to do so; others may find it melodramatic and predictable. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
Gahh
Horrible ending! Great book. Until the end. Then it feels like she rushed it to end it. Two pages for the last chapter?! Seriously? So disappointed.