Review: The Girl I Was Before (Falling, #3) by Ginger Scott

3.5 stars! ****

Author: Ginger Scott

Title: The Girl I Was Before (Falling, #3)

I’m the selfish one. I suppose that’s the nicest thing people say about me. I’ve heard the other things, too. “Paige Owens is a pretty girl with nothing else to offer. She’s just a good time at a party. She’s stupid, heartless, cold and useless. All she cares about is getting a guy to look at her. Why would anyone want to be her friend?”

Some of those things are true. Others were true. They’re all hurtful.

None of it matters.

I’m ready to make the hard choices. I’m ready to face the consequences. I’m ready to be the girl I was before, and I’m done being the one who lost her way.

I’m ready to become the girl Houston Orr sees when he looks at me.

Houston isn’t a star athlete. He doesn’t play in a band. He’s never going to be president, and his life is so far away from simple and easy it isn’t even funny.
He wasn’t part of my plan. But I’m starting to think plans are overrated, and maybe our stories are what we make them. And mine depends entirely on me, and the choices I make…starting now.

Houston is my fairytale. He’s perfectly imperfect. He’s poetry and life. He’s truth and heartbreak, all rolled up in a tall body with dark hair, broad shoulders and green eyes that lull me into submission. He’s nothing I ever thought I wanted, but the very thing I need. He’s the only guy I’ve ever really loved, and he thinks I’m a princess. I fell into him, and now I’m holding on.

But sometimes life takes away our ability to choose. Sometimes…things aren’t in your control. Sometimes, it hurts to be selfless. My only hope is that when it comes time to choose, I get it right.

Welcome to my once upon a time and wish for happily ever after.

Books by Ginger Scott are so hard to review - at least to me. They are good, I like them but there's not much to say about them. It's like a one-night stand - you have it, you enjoy it, you have a great time and then don't really think about it again.

I've never experienced the "mindblown" moment, that would make me want to read it again and again. There was never the "OMG I love him/her/them together" moment. It's okay. It's good. But that's all.

I liked The Girl I Was Before the most out of the series. I can't relly say why, there's no specific reason for that. Well, there is but I'll get to that later.

Paige is a bitch gone good (mostly). She's the pretty twin, but she's also jelaous of Cass - the other twin. She'd do just about anything for her sister, even posting some incriminating pictures of her sorority leader. The leader knows who did it and she makes her movce out. Now Paige needs a new place to live and she doesn't want to go back to her sister's room.

Houston has to work a lot. He's a widower and a single father to a four year old girl. He's reliable, hard-working AND muscular. He sees through Paige's mask of indifference and he knows that deep inside there's something more in her than just make-up, pretty clothes, high heels and parties.

And because she's got nowhere to go he's got a free room, she moves in with him.

I couldn't believe but I ended up really liking Paige. I finally got the see what lied beneath the coldness and I liked what I saw. She went through a huge character developement and that's why THE GIRL I WAS BEFORE was my favourite.

Like I said before it was good but not great. Reading it was fun but I'm not even sad that the series is over.