5 stars! *****
Title: Lost and Found (Lost and Found, #1)
There’s complicated. And there’s Rowen Sterling.
After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen’s dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing.
Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she’d thought was frozen go boom-boom. Jesse’s like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. He’s the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded.
Rowen knows there’s no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl—happily-right-now is a stretch—so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she’s not sure she’s ready to feel. But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. The more she convinces herself she doesn’t care, the harder she falls.
When her dark secrets refuse to stay locked behind the walls she’s kept up for years, Rowen realizes it’s not just everyone else she needs to be honest with. It’s herself.
After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen’s dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing.
Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she’d thought was frozen go boom-boom. Jesse’s like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. He’s the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded.
Rowen knows there’s no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl—happily-right-now is a stretch—so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she’s not sure she’s ready to feel. But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. The more she convinces herself she doesn’t care, the harder she falls.
When her dark secrets refuse to stay locked behind the walls she’s kept up for years, Rowen realizes it’s not just everyone else she needs to be honest with. It’s herself.
Cowboyyyyyyys! In tight jeans. With hats!
But besides cowboys it was a gripping, heart-breaking, hope inducing book.
Rowen just barely graduated highschool. She's a mess. She did drugs, skipped classes and slept with too many guys.
I’d worn so many different labels I lost count. People liked to label things; it made them feel like the world made some sense. Like, if I was one thing, they were the other.
I’d been labeled a goth, an emo, a druggie, a loser, and my personal favorite only because it showed just how ignorant people were: a freak.
Her mother send her to a ranch in the middle of nowhere so that she could "prove" herself. Also if she didn't go, her mother wouldn't have funded her art school.
She lives with a big, loving family. A completely strange concept to her since her mother is one coldhearted bitch. They accept her how she is, her humor, the way she dresses..
Jesse is a typical cowboy. He rides a horse, drives an old car, listens to country music and wears too small jeans. When he drives to a bus station to pick up a girl who'll stay with them for the summer, who he finds is not what he expected.
This closed off girl with too many secrets who speaks sarcasms as her native language and hides beneath her snarky attitude touched something inside of him.
He'll have to fight her to let him inside her head and inside her heart.
“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling. We should spend it finding someone who will help us up.”
I enjoyed reading this book so much. It was very well written, it was gripping and kept me on my toes most of the time.
Seeing Rowen step out of her comfort zone was so damn satisfying. It took some time and a lot of work until that happened, but when it did happen it was like reading about almost a different person. Who was still sarcatic.
Rowen's and Jesse's relationship did progress fast, but I didn't mind. Sometimes I even wished for them to finally to stop going around it and be together.
Her relationship with Jesse is something we (or at least me :D) all want. It isn't based on chemistry only (they have it all right) but on mutual feelings and respect. They knew each other well, they knew what made the other tick before they bacame physical. And the result is amazing.
We don’t always need to know the answers. We shouldn’t get hung up on the questions we can’t answer because life, by definition, is confusing. We’re never going to have all the answers. Never. We should focus on the questions we can answer and make peace with the ones we can’t.
Rowen's mother is one of the worst mothers I've ever read about. She's so self-centered and egoistic and unwilling to see or even try to see beneath the facade Rowen had build around herself.
Jesse's family took their time and saw beneath it and they basically adopted her. And not only because their son was dating her.
I'm glad that there are sequels of this couple because I've not had enough of Jesse yet!
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