'Love Lessons' by Heidi Cullinan is a heartwarming story about two college roommates, Walter and Kelly, who couldn't be more different. Walter is a promiscuous and cynical individual, while Kelly is shy, naive, and idealistic. As they navigate college life and their growing friendship, they both learn valuable lessons about love, trust, and relationships. The book is filled with Disney references, alternating narrative points of view, and a slow-building romance that culminates in a sweet and emotional love story.
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Sensitive Topics/Content Warnings
This book contains medium-level content-related triggers involving sexual exploration, family dysfunction, and mental health themes.
Has Romance?
Romance is a major theme with high levels of emotional and physical intimacy between the characters.
From The Publisher:
Love doesn't come with a syllabus.
Kelly Davidson has waited what seems like forever to graduate high school and get out of his small-minded, small town. But when he arrives at Hope University, he quickly realizes finding his Prince Charming isn't so easy. Everyone here is already out. In fact, Kelly could be the only virgin on campus. Worst of all, he's landed the charming, handsome, gay campus Casanova as a roommate, whose bed might as well be equipped with a revolving door.
Walter Lucas doesn't believe in storybook love. Everyone is better off having as much fun as possible with as many people as possible...except his shy, sad little sack of a roommate is seriously screwing up his world view. As Walter sets out to lure Kelly out of his shell, staying just friends is harder than he anticipated. He discovers love is a crash course in determination. To make the grade, he'll have to finally show up for class...and overcome his own private fear that love was never meant to last.
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This is a pretty good book. Have I read better ones? Sure. It's just not a story I will remember in a few months.
There are some really good elements here. I had some concerns about the young adult genre, which I generally don't like. But unnecessarily. The characters are indeed young, but not annoyingly immature. On the contrary, the book has rather good vibes of new adult. However, I would prefer that some issues be taken more seriously. It seemed to me that the ya genre somewhat limits the author.
Kelly and Walter make very interesting characters. They have well developed and consistent personalities. Walter struggles with some family problems, which definitely shaped him. I really like that Kelly grew up a very loving family in contrast and there is basically no drama in this field. This does not mean that Kelly is not interesting. It's always good to see something new in the book, some variety. Kelly has many allergies. And although I think that this thread has not been fully exploited in this book, it is still worth bringing to light.
The plotline is fine, but in my opinion it could be better. There are several threads here that could be more developed, taken more seriously. I like the whole idea of roommates, but I also admit that I read a book not long ago in which this thread was written much better. I think of [b:Off Campus|22857416|Off Campus (Bend or Break, #1)|Amy Jo Cousins|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1407159048l/22857416._SX50_.jpg|42423793]. Here, the dramatic threads have been somewhat softened and everything, everything must end well in the end. Even things that are not so easy to solve in real life. Maybe I'm getting old, but it's getting harder for me to enjoy the endings in which absolutely all the dramas turn into absolutely fantastic opportunities, even better than needed for a happy ending. In my opinion this is the main disadvantage of this book. Important topics are treated a bit too lightly and end with a too spectacular happy ending.
Besides, this book is rather fine. Walter and Kelly are a very nice couple. It's also a good story for people who usually don't like YA.
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