2013 Book Challenge 42/35: How My Summer Went Up in Flames

When Rosie found out her boyfriend, Joey, was cheating on her, she went to his house, burned the mementos of their relationship in his front yard which accidentally caused Joey's car caught fire. The result- a restraining order saying that Rosie could not be anywhere near Joey and that there be no any form of communication between them. But Rosie wants him back and she feels the need to explain to him what really happened (that she didn't set his car on fire intentionally) but that is against the restraining order; so, the parental units let her go on a road trip to Alabama with three boys- Matty, the boy next-door who obviously has the hots for Rosie and two boys who, until the day they left for the road trip, were complete strangers.

I get that Rosie's parents want her to stay out of (legal) trouble but letting your daughter go on a road trip with complete strangers? At least they should have let his younger brother come, right? So they trust Matty but what if in the event that Spencer and Logan (that's their names) aren't pure of heart, Matty may not be able to protect her. So maybe I'm just paranoid. I guess her parents must have done some background check on the boys or something. Well, my "greatest fear" didn't happen and Logan and Spencer are actually nice boys.

Obviously, a love triangle was bound to happen among Rosie, Matty and one of the two brothers. Although at first I was sure it would be between Matty and Logan, there were moments where Spencer might have been a contender. We know right from the start that Matty likes Rosie but she doesn't feel the same way about him and when Logan entered the picture, super etchapwera na si Matty. It was an entertaining read, only I felt that Rosie and Logan's relationship started a little abruptly. At first, they were always fighting and there weren't even sweet moments between them and then suddenly they just realized they were into each other?

It wasn't really that swoonable and after reading all of Rainbow Rowell's books, certainly I found this lacking although not bad ;)