The start was a kitty iffy for me, it didn't flow smoothly and I hot a little confused but when the boys of SAS showed up I didn't care so much anymore.

 

I enjoyed the gentle romance of Chloe and Milo. It was sweet and I loved the fireflies and treehouse and midnight meetings... sigh. I also enjoyed reading the cammeraderie between the guys and by the end, the girls and guys together. Like an extended family.

 

There was just a point about 65% where I started to lose interest. It seemed to be a lot of the same stuff going on and I got a little bored and then the drama hit--the one where boy and girl have a big misunderstanding--and I wanted to hit both of them. I know something had to happen but it was just so cliché.

 

I was pretty happy when they resolved the matter but by then I'd sort of lost interest in the story and was just skimming the text, looking for interesting bits.

 

Not a bad book but one not quite to my tastes

Yes, this is a VERY strange story, but I LOVED it! ☺ I adore Jude, I just want to squeeze him.

Haley meets this mysterious guy, and they seem to have some sort of understanding of each other, but the next morning he doesn't show up where they were supposed to meet. She never even got his name, but through some digging she found out that he was the supposedly dead son of a local couple. She gets a few leads and she, along with her best friend, decides to track him down. Her best friend, Linzi, is that slutty best friend that is just a perfect amount of bad influence to get you to have fun, but I'm not so sure if I like her, slutty friends usually end up stabbing you in the back.
I LOVE the whole "mysterious guy that gets me" thing. I thought "oh how sweet she is gonna track him down and they are gonna love each other (swoon)" That DOES NOT happen, but that's OK. I also love a good road trip and they were tracking down those clues, it was like one of those Geo Caching hunts. They do find him though in California, only he is like some local celebrity named Colby Taylor and everyone treats them like stupid little fan girls. Colby has these body guards that they have to get past if they want to see him. My favorite character is AJ. Everyone sees AJ as this bad boy, trouble maker, but he is actually a really sweet and amazing person. I won't say WHO Haley ended up with, you will just have to read for yourself, but it was NOT who I expected. And I kind of think Colby Taylor might be bat shit crazy; I don't know we’ll see. Luckily the next two books are already out and after you love this one you don't have to wait for the next two.
This book has awakened my gypsy soul and given me a serious case of wanderlust. I sometimes find myself shaking my leg and wanting to run when I am sitting around not doing anything.

Halfway There - Nikki Godwin I loved Falling From The Sky, so when I heard there was going to be a sequel I was soooo excited. I can't wait to read Crash Landing! Then Nikki Godwin released Halfway There and it eased a little bit of my pre-sequel suffering. I absolutely LOVE Ridge and Micah! I honestly wasn't sure if I was going to like Falling From The Sky when I won it in a contest, but now it is one of my favorite books. I am so glad that that I won that contest, because it introduced me to this author, and I have since read some of her other books. She is very talented and I do plan to read everything that she has wrote.

3.5 stars, mainly because I got a bit confused in the middle bit, where the guys were trying to keep them away from Colby but treating them as friends and getting closer to them at the same time. Probably just me.

Other than that though I liked it. I liked the whole 'forever' thing, finding that one thing that you can do forever that'll make you happy. Going after what you want. Falling in love slowly. Meeting lots of great new friends. Growing up and realising that what you thought as first isn't always right. And lots of surfing.