4 Smooches
Synopsis
Some say love is deadly. Some say love is beautiful. I say it is both.
Faith Watters spent her junior year traveling the world, studying in exquisite places, before returning to Oviedo High School. From the outside her life is picture-perfect. Captain of the dance team. Popular. Happy. Too bad it’s all a lie.
It will haunt me. It will claim me. It will shatter me. And I don’t care.
Eighteen-year-old Diego Alvarez hates his new life in the States, but staying in Cuba is not an option. Covered in tattoos and scars, Diego doesn’t stand a chance of fitting in. Nor does he want to. His only concern is staying hidden from his past—a past, which if it were to surface, would cost him everything. Including his life.
At Oviedo High School, it seems that Faith Watters and Diego Alvarez do not belong together. But fate is as tricky as it is lovely. Freedom with no restraint is what they long for. What they get is something different entirely.
Love—it will ruin you and save you, both.
Review
“One thing’s clear. He’s dangerous. And he’s beautiful.”
I am going to be honest and say that this review is hard for me. Parts of this book were five star and parts were 3 star so I decided to split the difference and go with 4 stars. While overall I enjoyed the plot of this book, and I am a sucker for a from different worlds romance I felt that the writing at times was not as smooth as I would have liked. The two main characters Faith and Deigo, are both ones I fell for right away and I was rooting for the two of them to get together straight from the beginning. However, as the story went on I wanted to shake Faith and tell her to let it all go and give in! But I guess sometimes that is needed in order to build up the story. These two could not come from different worlds. Faith is a middle class white preachers daughter who has a few things in her past that only her BFF knows about. Diego has just moved here from Cuba where he was involved in some less than good things. Both of these two just want to be themselves but have a hard time giving in.
“By the way, I see right through you.”
While a bit of a cliche, I really liked Diego. He made the story for me. He was both a jerk and a sensitive man. He pushed and pulled Faith and forced her to stretch past her comfort zone. Before You is packed full of love, desire and action. I found it to be a fast read and once the story started I needed to know how it ended! I will warn you while romantic and action packed this story is very YA and if you are looking for some sex this is not the place to find it. But if you are looking for a different twist on a high school romance this might be for you.
~miranda
