Love On The Lifts Review

Love On The Lifts By Rachel Hawthorne

Kate Kennedy and her 2 friends Leah and Allie are staying in Snow Angel Valley this vinterbreak for 3 three weeks. Kate´s aunt lives down there and own a Bookstore/cafe and rents out condos, so when a condo was not rented she offered it to Kate and her friends, instead of living with her. For some time now Kate has been crushing on her one year older brother Sam, college roommate Brad Connor, but her friends thinks it is time to forget it and have some fun by dating a ski instructor, sice Brad has no idea she exists according to Kate. And Sam always threats her like a baby, so how can Brad notice her? The first thing the girls do when they show up is to build a snowman, cause Leah and Allie has never been in the snow before, because they are all from Texas. But suddenly while making it, Sam, Brad and another friend of Sam´s, Joe, shows up and tells her that they will be living in the condo too. When the guys settles in Kate goes to her aunt, and her aunt knows that it is not just because Kate doesn´t want her brother here that she is down. So Kate tells her that she likes Brad and her aunt tell her she should get to know him then, instead of just liking him for his smile and looks. After the girls lay down some rules to the guys and Jow is kind of on their side with the most of the things, and Sam have to give in. Her aunt then asks them out to eat pizza and the girls and her aunt arrange so Kate can sit beside Brad and he almost asks her if they should go skiing together, when a women - Cynthia - who lives in the condo next to their ask her aunt if she could send out a repair man too her condo. Brad can´t get his eyes of her and he tells her that he can look at it now and hurries after her.

At midnight Kate is still awake because she knows that Brad ain´t home yet so she goes downstairs where Joe is because he sleeps on the couch. He tells her that Brad ain´t home and they talk about the tv show he is wacthing and she asks how her brother knows him and that she didn´t see him at the familie weekend at the college and he replies: I know. And he replies that he saw her. Kate really likes Joe because he treat her like and equal and she feels safe with him. The next morning Kate wake up before anyone else and goes down to make breakfast as one of the girls things. Joe wakes up and then Brad comes and he calls Kate, Allie. and Kate know that Joe knows that she like Brad so she is totally humiliated and goes to her aunt to meditate. While there her aunt tells her that she was once engaged, but when Kate ask for more information she wont give it. After she calls Leah and tells her that she will be wotking in her aunt shop today, and that the girls can just go out and get their ski lesson and then they can ski together tommorow. By the end of the afternoon Kate has decide to forget about Brad, but as soon as they all including Cyn comes into the cafe, she can see that it will not be that easy. She tells them that Paige a girl that works there has invited them all to a party tonight and Cyn and Brad go home to get ready. Kate then talk to her friends who tells her not to give up on Brad and that the party will be the perfect place. They then leave with Sam and Joe gets left behind and ask Kate if she wanted to see a movie and she tells him that they can all go do it tommorow. Then the afternoon rush of people comes and Joe helpes out and he walk home with Kate, who tells him that Paige likes him. He then tells her he is interested in someone else and that she shouldn´t set him up dates. They then get into a snowfight and Joe let her loose when she promise a dance with him at the party.

At the party Allie is dancing with Sam, Leah with her hot ski instructor, Cyn with Brad and Joe is around somewhere. So Kate is pretty much alone so she goes home and makes a anti-Brad cleaning in her head. Joe comes home and sits with her outside and just before Sam, Leah and Allie comes he actually kiss her and Kate is totally suprised because he takes kissing to a whole new level. He also tells her that her aunt told him that the guy she was engaged to was named Michael. The next morning she ask her aunt again, but she still doesn´t tell her anything. When Kate ask her why she told Joe, her aunt replie is that they then would have something to talk about. And eventhiugh she tells her aunt not to be matchmaker she is afraid she will be. Later they all, but Brad hit the slopes and Joe and Kate are again alone and Joe tells her that the kiss didn´t mean anything and if they can just go back to friends. Kate tells him okay, but she knows deep down that that was a kiss she will never forget. When Joe and Kate are on a lift later that day she sees Sam and Allie kissing, and when she gets home her, Leah and Allie goes to talk and Allie tells that she has had a crush on him for a while and him on her. They aso tells Kate that they saw her kissing Jow last night, and Kate must admit to herself that maybe she is falling a little for Joe. Later they are suppose to go for the movie, but the movies got switch so they go to a bar called Avalanche where they play games and stuff. Later at midnight Kate goes out outside to sit and Brad comes by the house and tells that he is moving in with Cyn, and Kate realize that she really is ovér him. After her brother comes out and they have a really good brother/sister talk and he tells her he has knowned all along she liked Brad, but that he isn´t boyfrind material for her.

When a big storm comes in the next day they all huddle up in the condo Including Aunt Sue and Leah´s Ian. While Joe and Kate are making cider they go to the storage in the house, the power goes and Joe and her almost kiss again but is interupted by Sam. Later when the other goes to bed Joe gives her a bookmark because he knows she likes to read and she gives him a brief kiss as thanks. By the end of the week Kate thinks it is time that her aunt tells her about Michael and were his picture is in the cafe. It turn out the picture is in the office and she tells Kate that Michael died in a Avalanche. Later kate and Joe goes skiing on the biggest hill, but Kate isn´t concentrating and she falls. Joe is right behind her and he looses concentration and bumbs into a tree. She calls Sam and they get Joe to a hospital where they find out that Joe has wrenched his knee and has to walk with crutches. Kate decides that she has to take care of him and the 2 of them is in the condo for days together and Joe keeps telling her to just go out but she wont, so they get pretty pissed at each other. On the third day Joe decides to go out and eighter go in the hottub or make a snowman. Kate says no to both, but he goes out to make a snowman anyway and she follows him, and he finds out that it is really hard with Crutches in snow, but he makes the best of it. He gets more pissed at Kate outside, throws snow at her and tells her to away, and because of his angry tone she does. Leah finds her later in the cafe and tells Kate that she has really fallen for Ian and that she is moving in with him, and that she consider to move up here when she is done with her senior year.

The next morning Kate discovers that Brad is back and that things didn´t work with Cyn and he ask Kate to go skiing. Kate doesn´t want to be with him, but she is going skiing anyway. When Brad asks her he takes his hand around her waist and Joe walks in and then out. Kate follows him and he tells her the only reason he ever hung out with her was because they were the only 2 left, and that she should go out skiing with Brad. When they hit the slopes Brad calls her Allie again and he says it was because on the way up here Joe keept asking so many questions about Kate and Sam talked about Allie. So Kate tells Brad she has to go back to the condo because she has forgotten her boyfriend. She goes back to him and they go out on a snowmobile and when she stops the snowmobile she turns around and they kiss. later that night they all go to Avalanche and the 6 of them sees Paige and Brad together. They also holds a girls night at aunt Sue and they finds out that Paige real name is Delilah Delfino - Paige Turner. Later when they get home she tells Joe he should sleep with her in her bed. When there are only a couple of days left Joe and Kate are outside planning their spring break together, and Joe tells her he wants to try the hottub but they need to buy her a bathingsuit. But she just tells him that she can do withoutone and that they can do it tonight.

This was a really good, sweet, fast, fun and romantic book, and I think that i liked this book more than The Boyfriend League. There is just something about books/and i real life: snow, fireplace, romance. I also felt that this book was somehow more serious than The Boyfriends League, with the feeling and all that. But Okay seriously can the main character be more oblivious: its like she gets told something and then she cant get the hint. The things are always right under her nose and she just can´t seem to get it.


Grade: 12