Review: Chasing Nikki by Lacey Weatherford

Chasing Nikki by Lacey Weatherford
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Finding great romance books that aren't practically porn is becoming more and more difficult. It was during my search for good new romance books to read that I came across Chasing Nikki by Lacey Weatherford, a book I read in one sitting.

The story follow Chase Walker, a 17 year old boy who, after his fathers death, becomes mixed up in alchol and such, going from a star athlete to a party boy in a matter of days. When his mother Tori finally became sick of it and moved them to live with his grandparents he met Nikki, someone who saw through his guise to the broken boy underneath... And someone who refused to date football players because the star quarterback messed up.

It's at this point your probably think that this is the typical boy-meets-girl-girl-plays-hard-to-get-and-they-live-happily-ever-after type story, but you'd be wrong!

Sure, Nikki plays hard to get because Chase was a jerk to her at first, but like all good romance's he wore her down until she went on a date with him. Sure, everything was hunky dory for a while. It doesn't mean that in real life it'll stay that way forever though and so it didn't. Even as both Nikki and Chase helped each other overcome their pasts and move on, there was still that dark shadow in the back that whispered it would return to wreak havoc again in their lives.

That was part 1 of the book in a nutshell, and even though it was the biggest part of the book, taking up about two thirds of it, it still held nothing on the second part.

Part 2 of Chasing Nikki is where the worst, most heartwrenching moments of the story come to play. At first it might seem that, of course they'll live happily ever after, they always do. There's one big diffence with this story though. It takes the most predictable plotline ever, the one that you want to see come through, and twists it so fast that you have worse whiplash than Nikki and although the need to quit reading may be strong, the need to see them to the end is stronger.

Told in a way that keeps you reading till the very last moment with eager anticipation, Chasing Nikki is a book that will warm your heart and crush your soul. You will laugh and cry in the best and worst ways possible. A definite must read.

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