Book:
A Risk Worth Taking
Author:
Heather
Hildenbrand
Genre:
New
Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Book
Synopsis:
When
22-year-old Summer Stafford’s parents split halfway through her
senior year at college, Summer’s world is rocked. Everything she
thought she knew—heck, everything she thought she wanted for her
own life—feels like a lie. The truth is love is a risk. And the
true kind, the kind that lasts, might even be a fairy tale.
Reeling from the divorce, Summer derails her own future by breaking up with her parent-approved boyfriend and giving up her lifelong plans for a big-city career. She moves back home, business degree in hand. Dad needs her to fill the gaps her mother left behind; Summer needs to find who she is outside of the cookie-cutter life that failed so miserably for her parents.
Ford O’Neal’s future involves one person: himself. He doesn’t have a permanent address and he definitely doesn’t commit. To a place or a person. Raised by hippies, he plans just far enough ahead to secure his next stop, this one landing him at a work-study program at Heritage Plantation where he can grow his own herbal and medicinal creations.
Summer is gorgeous and smart and fun to be with, the perfect way to pass five months. It won’t be love—Ford’s got too many things to accomplish, too many places to go, before he settles down. Yet Summer pulls him in, challenging him to rethink his own philosophy.
When Ford’s five months are up, each of them must decide if love is really worth the risk.
Reeling from the divorce, Summer derails her own future by breaking up with her parent-approved boyfriend and giving up her lifelong plans for a big-city career. She moves back home, business degree in hand. Dad needs her to fill the gaps her mother left behind; Summer needs to find who she is outside of the cookie-cutter life that failed so miserably for her parents.
Ford O’Neal’s future involves one person: himself. He doesn’t have a permanent address and he definitely doesn’t commit. To a place or a person. Raised by hippies, he plans just far enough ahead to secure his next stop, this one landing him at a work-study program at Heritage Plantation where he can grow his own herbal and medicinal creations.
Summer is gorgeous and smart and fun to be with, the perfect way to pass five months. It won’t be love—Ford’s got too many things to accomplish, too many places to go, before he settles down. Yet Summer pulls him in, challenging him to rethink his own philosophy.
When Ford’s five months are up, each of them must decide if love is really worth the risk.
Book
Review:
First
we meet one of our main characters, Summer, and we learn about how
her stable life is suddenly rocked by the sudden split of her
parents. Summer’s big dreams of going and continuing her education
is put to a stop whenever she finds out that her father needs her
help back home, and this is when things begin to change. Among the
faces she’s known throughout her life she notices Ford, and from
this moment he turns Summer’s planned and structure world upside
down. I fell in love with the main characters straight away; their
opposite looks on life. Ford how he has just as big as dreams as
Summer, but instead he lets life plan his path for him and this is
what he teaches Summer that you can’t always be in control. When
reading this book you’re getting onboard of an emotional journey,
watching someone’s life slowly open up like a flower. We watch
Summer change from being trapped within herself, the anger towards
her mother because of the divorce and her feelings towards Ford.
Reading this book I felt my heart strings being pulled for Summer
because she is finally opening herself up and drops her barriers to
feel love, whenever she knows soon her world is going to come
crashing down in five short months. Through this book you will want
cry, you’ll laugh and with some of Ford’s comments you might even
squirm! Reading this book I think really give you two different
outlooks on life how we can plan things right down but sometimes we
should let go and take the risks just as Summer did despite the
outcome. But was the risk really worth taking for Summer?
Favourite
Quotes:
It
just means we'll have to change our mode of transportation, because
you are most definitely not taking that dress off. Well, not yet”
"You
should never settle. Life's too short. Do things that make you
happy."
"You're
not living unless you're risking."
"I
thought you said love is a risk,"
All
in All: I honestly loved this book, and I feel it did a perfect job
at taking my heart on one bump journey. I wouldn’t give this a book
pick it up as soon you as you can! I wish this wasn’t a one
standing book because I fell in love with it, the character and their
lives and I suppose that’s a good thing *sighhh*!
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