by Sophie McKenzie
From the author of the Girl, Missing series and the Medusa Project series - both brilliant.River is 16 and a true romantic. She wants to find THE ONE, she wants to fall head over heels in love and never fall out of it. She auditions for the role of Juliet in an inter-school production of Romeo and Juliet, but due to a bit of a fluster, ends up with the role of the nurse. The fluster comes in the role of Romeo - Flynn, a brooding, fiery, serious moody teenager from the local boys school. River is hooked - he has to be THE ONE. Then he falls for her. But he's hiding many secrets - his father was an abusive alcoholic who his mother threw out the house. They now live in a tiny flat with his two sisters, and Flynn tries to protect them all. A huge job for a teenager with multiple jobs, school work, a play and a violent past. Can River cope with his behaviour? Is this what she wanted from her dreamy ideal of her one first and true love?
I read this in a day. A great teenage love story, describing all the emotions a teenage girl would go through on falling in love for the first time. Not for readers under 12 - very powerful language and descriptive scenes only for 13+.
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