The Other Boy Review

The Other Boy By Hailey Abbott

It is summer and for Maddy, it means partying, hanging with friends and boyfriends going to the beach and all the things a 16 years old girl finds fun. So when her parents for 2 month of the summer is going to their vineyard in Napa Valley, Maddy gets their huge San Francisco house to herself. So the day her parents go, Maddy holds a big party, the only problem is that her parents comes back home because they forgot something. They break up the party and now Maddy has to go with them to Napa. Maddy is not happy, she is so not a Napa girl, she is a city. She finds out that her parents has a partner in business and that he has a son, David. Their parents give them a job for the next 2 months, to fix up a vinetasting room. But on the first day of the job Maddy ditches David to go to a spa, and by night when there family´s eat dinner together, Maddy overheards David tell a girl, their age, who is also at the dinner that Maddy is a snob and the girl agrees. But Because Maddy trips and falls David finds out she heard, and the next day he apologize. After this Maddy and David become friends, when he finds out she is not a snob, and make a good job decorating the room. They go on a bike trip around the city to find inspiration for the room, and they buy furnitures for it, while pretending they are married. Soon Maddy begins to change, to not liking the life there - to loving it, and with David there things only gets better. By the time her birthday is coming up her boyfriend Brian is suppose to come, but Maddy is not really happy about it, because she has change and is falling for David. The weekend with her birthday don´t go very well and after a week Maddy breaks up with Brian over the phone. Maddy is confused, but really like David, but can they really be a couple, when they live totally different lives?

This was a fun, sweet, romance-fill book about how a girl can change her mind and herself about everything. I really enjoyed and liked this book.
Now to the characters: I enjoyed seeing Maddy's character change from rich snob - Who you disliked to a down-to-earth girl who could appreciate the beauty of nature - Who you liked. Madeline Sinclaire, OMG where have i heard that name before, isn´t that name like the typical something? So cliche!And the whole thing with Maddy cooking was SO musch fun, i laugh the whole time. and the part where they pretend they are married, so good. So i really liked this book, but not so much the ending, I thought it was was somehow rushed and that iritated me.

Grade: 10