Let me say now...I take Travis' side. I'm just sayin...
There's a line (and actually a lot more than one line) from Kenny Chesney's song Come Over that pretty much, kind of perfectly, sums this book up: "Forget about your friends. You know they're gonna say we're bad for each other, but we ain't good for anyone else." Except, instead of their friends constantly telling them this, they keep whispering it to themselves. At least Abby sure as shit does. She lets her girl brain take over and there are so many insecurities. I actually don't blame Travis for a lot of things that happen on the roller coaster ride that is their relationship...sometimes relationshit. She makes a lot of this shit happen. Get out of your girl brain and just love this man. They both are far better when they're with each other than when they're apart because for whatever reason they let the past ghosts interfere. Abby keeps taking the mistakes of her father out on Travis, and honestly it's not fair. Abby, I feel, puts him through a lot of unnecessary emotional bullshit and trauma, mostly because she's a fucking girl and apparently it's what we all do. For instance, she was ready to just end their mutual misery at Thanksgiving but instead she drags this bullshit on for about 4 more fucking months...uh really bitch? I would have dropped her ass way before then but Travis is legitimately in love with her. Sure...he fucks up from time to time and has a hard way of showing sometimes just how much he deeply feels, but I honestly don't feel like he was the one who initiated the head and heart games. I feel Abby was primarily responsible for why it took so long for them to finally end up together. Hell, she even admits to it.
As if you couldn't tell from the previous rant...I obviously find favor with Travis. Travis is your all American bad boy. He drives a Harley, has rock hard six pack abs, arms well honed from fighting (think UFC only in a college building basement), tattoos up and down his arms (shiver and swoon)...he's a panty dropper. I was bound to love him and take his side in most everything. He's never loved a woman other than his mother who he doesn't even remember much since she passed when he was so young, and now he's stumbled upon Abby, who steals his heart regardless of whether she wants it or not. They have ups and downs as all couples do but to me she takes it too far. She's always up and leaving...she seriously needs to work on her communication skills. I could clearly see that he would do anything and everything she wanted to do, all she had to do was say it but she couldn't do it. She kept letting past demons and problems get in the way.
I'm not saying Travis was always in the right, but given how crazy Abby was acting...I kinda feel he wasn't always in the wrong and that a lot of his behavior was justifiable considering she was just stringing him along. I'm not her biggest fan in all honesty and I'm still not completely convinced that she deserves him...but they're no good being with other people. They're miserable when they're apart and make everyone else around them miserable. I don't know how America and Shep were able to stand it for so long. I believe I would have had to walk away from their friendships. Of course, I have an incredibly low tolerance for bullshit and I don't deal with crazy. I will walk away from you. Self preservation I suppose.
In the end though, they get their happy ending...they're married and all that jazz...but they're still in college and I have a feeling there are still battles ahead. With all of the conflict they had throughout the book...all the fights...all the off and on...all the toying with the emotions, I was emotionally fucking relieved when they finally got it together. I could finally quit yelling at the book and rolling my eyes and sighing heavily and just kind of being generally disgusted with them not being able to get their shit together.
If you're looking for a fast paced little romance story that isn't all sex but has actual plot...and you need a new fictional boyfriend, then go ahead and read this guy. And the next few after it. I'll read them all because I want to see what happens from here. I'll root for them...mostly because I want Travis to be happy...I still just can't shake the feeling of not being Abby's biggest fan...maybe it's jealousy over fictional characters...
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