I read this book via an Amazon KINDLE Unlimited download.
This book, written by Melanie Marks, is being told from its young teenage girl protagonist, Ally’s POV [Point of View] as it has all of the emotions a girl her age would have after being compelled by her school to help turnaround the behavior of one of its biggest rabble-rousers, Griffin Piper. The only apparent redeeming quality Griffin has is a top-notch hockey player.

However, this outward appearance Griffin is actually hiding a secret as Ally soon finds out. Griffin is in actuality the cutest, kindest, pleasantest boy she’s ever known; and her heart melts whenever he merely looks at her. And unbeknownst to Ally, Griffin feels the same way about her.

The author’s writing is quite vivid and succinct as it doesn’t hide any of Ally’s thought-processes while being with or thinking about Griffin.

The only negative quality I feel this book possesses is its number of chapters, a total of 75.

Mothers, when considering to buy this book for your daughters try to recall when you had been Ally’s age, and while I didn’t do it my younger sister did, this could have been something you might have done yourself; which is keeping a secret diary of everything that was happening in your life especially when there was a boy involved.

While there is no dating for any of the book chapters, and given how I felt reading my sister’s diary, I believe that this book is actually Ally’s long-lost secret diary which the author “found” and is now making public. Forgetting this possibility, I believe this endeavor by the author would make a marvelous reading experience for young girls coming of age and finding their first real love. Unfortunately, given the diverse, voracious reviewers of books that I am, I won’t have the time to read any other books about Ally and Griffin which the author has written; but this not stopping me from giving Ms. Marks the 5 STARS, I’ve given her here. ( )