review; the distance between us

The Distance Between Us
by Kasie West

Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers studies the rich like her own personal science experiment, and after years of observation she’s pretty sure they’re only good for one thing – spending money on useless stuff, like the porcelain dolls in her mother’s shop.

So when Xander Spence walks into the store to pick up a doll for his grandmother, it only takes one glance for Caymen to figure out he’s oozing rich. Despite his charming ways and that he’s one of the first people who actually gets her, she’s smart enough to know his interest won’t last. Because if there’s one thing she’s learned from her mother’s warnings, it’s that the rich have a short attention span. But Xander keeps coming around, despite her best efforts to scare him off. And much to her dismay, she’s beginning to enjoy his company.

She knows her mom can’t find out – she wouldn’t approve. She’d much rather Caymen hang out with the local rocker who hasn’t been raised by money. But just when Xander’s attention and loyalty are about to convince Caymen that being rich isn’t a character flaw, she finds out that money is a much bigger part of their relationship than she’d ever realized. And that Xander’s not the only one she should’ve been worried about.

Review:

I cannot. I just cannot. I thought The Fill-In Boyfriend was good (and it WAS) but this one? Banter, sarcasm, two kids from opposite sides of the tracks but so similar, mirror images of one another.

Obviously they fall in love and obviously things are not as simple as they seem. But it’s not all Romeo + Juliet either, because her friend(s) adore him, his family loves her, and they just balance each other out.

Add in a mystery about what’s up with Caymen’s mom, a little bit of a triangle which, thank god, not dragged out or over done, and a lot (and I mean A LOT) of awesome lines, and this made for such a fun read. I’m not going to go too deep into it because I think it’s the sort of the book that needs to speak for itself so all I’m going to say is READ IT.