The Boy Is Back (Boy #4) -

Meg Cabot

William Morrow Paperbacks

2016

356 páginas

11h 52m

ISBN-10: 0062378864

From New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot comes the sweetly humorous story of a man who has to face his past in order to find his future.

Sometimes to move forward, you have to go back…

One post. That’s all it took to destroy the care free, glamorous life of pro golfer Reed Stewart. One tiny post on the Internet.

Then again, it’s not like Reed’s been winning many tournaments lately, and his uncle isn’t the only one who says it’s because of the unfinished business he left behind back home in Bloomville, Indiana—namely Reed’s father, the Honorable Judge Richard P. Stewart, and the only girl Reed ever loved, Becky Flowers.

But Reed hasn’t spoken to either his father or Becky in over a decade.

Until that post on the Internet. Suddenly, Reed’s family has become a national laughingstock, his publicist won’t stop calling, his siblings are begging for help, and Reed realizes he has no other choice: He’s got to go home to face his past . . . the Judge and the girl he left behind.

Becky’s worked hard to build her successful senior relocation business, but she’s worked even harder to forget Reed Stewart ever existed—which hasn’t been easy, considering he’s their hometown’s golden boy, and all anyone ever talks about. It was fine while they were thousands of miles apart, but now he’s back in Bloomville. She has absolutely no intention of seeing him—until his family hires her to help save his parents.

Now Reed and Becky can’t avoid one another…or the memories of that one fateful night.

Can the quirky residents of Bloomville bring these two young people back together, or will Reed and Becky continue to allow their pasts to deny them the future they deserve?

This warm, thought-provoking book, told entirely in texts, emails, and journal entries, is as much about the enduring bond of families as it is about second chances at love, and will delight as much as it entertains.

Resenhas (7)

2.5 (Razoável)

Ideia genial, execução em projeto errado

Finalmente terminar, vitoriosa, campeã persistente nessa provação.
O livro tinha TUDO pra ser bom pra mim e me cativar, mas eu tentei começar a ler em janeiro de 2020 e só co seguir terminar em agosto de 2022. O livro simplesmente não ia. Eu tentava, perdia o interesse, abandonava, pegava outro pra ler e esquecia a história desse. Aí o tinha que ler tudo de novo pra lembrar a história. Acho q o problema foi q o formato inovador de ter diversos gêneros escritos por personagens diferentes acabou que na verdade me fez sentir q não tava me conectando com ninguém. E aí a mudança da história, quando o Reed se declara pra menina lá me pareceu muito aleatória e sem motivo real mesmo.
Além disso, o que eu acho q era pra ter uma sensação de ser uma grande fofoca e um casos de família legal só virou uma discussão por herança e burocracia de grupo de família no WhatsApp.
Quando tinham os e-mails os cabeçalhos deles eram muitas vezes maiores do que as mensagens em sim. Pareceu um pouco de enrolação pra parecer q tinha mais assunto.
Mas admiro a coragem da autora em tentar um novo formato de escrita e foi bem criativo, apenas acho q para o gênero romance não funcionou tão bem por não termos acesso aos sentimentos e reflexões internas dos personagens.