Lost and Found by Nicole Williams has officially become one of my favorite books. Why, you ask? It's simple. I think by now all of us have heard of at least one story about a good girl falling for a bad boy and whatnot, but stories of bad girls falling for good guys are a bit harder to find. And I really, really love bad girls in books. So when I found this book, I was extremely happy.
Rowen Sterling is a broken girl. Having had a tough life and a horrible mother who could care less about her, Rowen starts following the wrong path. Drugs, alcohol and boys make her forget about the awful life awaiting for her back at home. But when recently graduated Rowen finds her dream art school, her mother sends her to a ranch in the middle of nowhere to prove that she's worthy of her paying Rowen's bills at the school.
Here is the official description of the book:
"There’s complicated. And there’s Rowen Sterling.
After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen’s dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing.
Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she’d thought was frozen go boom-boom. Jesse’s like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. He’s the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded.
Rowen knows there’s no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl—happily-right-now is a stretch—so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she’s not sure she’s ready to feel. But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. The more she convinces herself she doesn’t care, the harder she falls.
When her dark secrets refuse to stay locked behind the walls she’s kept up for years, Rowen realizes it’s not just everyone else she needs to be honest with. It’s herself."
At the Willow Springs Ranch, Rowen's life becomes significantly more complicated when she meets the nice, handsome Jesse Walker. Jesse is nothing like Rowen and he's nothing like any guy she has ever met. Desperately trying to stay away with him, Rowen finds herself drawn to Jesse all the more. When things start getting serious between the two of them, Rowen does the one thing she knows how to do best - she pushes him away.
But as Rowen convinces herself that staying away from Jesse is the best thing for the both of them, she realizes that she can no longer live life the way she has until now. And Jesse is responsible for that. Convinced her heart was hidden deep behind the walls she'd put up, Rowen struggles with her new feelings for Jesse.
This book is basically a book about a bad girl struggling to find her way again and to do it before it's too late. When even her own mother thinks of her daughter as nothing but a worthless freak, how can Rowen think any different of herself? But Jesse sees past all of that and helps Rowen realize she's more than what everyone keeps calling her. Jesse's family also helps with her discovery of her true self because in them, Rowen finds a family read to help and support her if she needs it.
I really liked Lost and Found and I'm happy to hear that there are more books in this series. I am definitely going to continue it. One of the reasons this book grew on me so much is that it's similar to one of my other favorite books, Dare You To, by Katie McGarry. I recommend Lost and Foundto anyone who wants to read a very nice story about discovering who you really are.
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