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    It Had to Be You
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    It Had to Be You

    Written by Jill Shalvis

    Narrated by Annie Greene

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Ali Winters is not having a good day. Her boyfriend left her, everyone in town thinks she's a thief, and now she's about to be kicked out of her home. Her only shot at keeping a roof over her head and clearing her name is to beg for help from a police detective who's as sexy as he is stern....

    After a high-profile case goes wrong, Luke Hanover returns to his hometown for some peace and quiet. Instead he finds a bombshell brunette in a heap of trouble. As he helps Ali put her world back together, the pieces of Luke's own life finally seem to fall into place. Is this the start of a sizzling fling? Or are Luke and Ali on the brink of something big in a little town called Lucky Harbor?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMay 28, 2013
    ISBN9781619697812
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    It Had to Be You
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    Jill Shalvis

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    • 4/5
      I actually really loved this book. I liked reading the buds of what bloomed in the Gossip Girl series (which I am still working my way through, one out of order book at a time).

      Because I was already familiar with the series, I had built some attachments to some of the characters. Blair is still my favorite, as difficult and complicated as she is. I feel like she's the most well-rounded and developed character, and I love reading her chapters.

      I also like Jenny. Her innocence is preteen eagerness is so cool and kind of sad. She really does need a female figure in her life.

      Anyway, the Gossip Girl books are definitely a guilty pleasure of mine, but I enjoy them, and this prequel was fun to read.
    • 3/5
      This prequel takes us back before Vanessa moves to New York and shaves her head, before Jenny had boobs, before Dan started smoking and became a poet, and, most importantly, before Nate, Serena and Blair became the most messed up love triangle ever. In addition to how all those things began, the three watch Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time, Blair begins her bout with bulimia, Blair's dad comes out of the closet, and Serena decides to go to boarding school. It was a little obvious to anyone who's read even one other Gossip Girl book before that those things were going to happen. I wish that I could say that the interesting part was how they happened, but I really didn't find it all that interesting. I guess maybe I've read too many of these all in a row, but I've gotten to the point where I'm just tired of all of them, and glad the series is over so I can read more edifying books.
    • 4/5
      I did not enjoy this as much as the others that I have read in this series though it was good catching up with the characters at 15.
    • 3/5
      I read this after finishing the series, which may have been a bad idea, but I don't think it was out when I first started this series. The prequel just delves deeper into the characters' lives before the first book started, but the subsequent books explained the important parts. The prequel was a bit less interesting because of that; I knew what was going to happen. Not so fun, but still likeable. Also, I'm a bit annoyed at the discrepancy with Serena's character. It takes till the second-to-last book for Serena to have a revelation that she loved Nate all along, but in this prequel, she knows this from the start. Wut wut?
    • 3/5
      Serena and Blair are two attractive high schoolers who are best friends and are both vying for the attention of one man, Nate Archibald. Throughout the book, Blair and Serena go through struggles that involve this one boy, and test the strength of their friendship. The book was alright because it was very shallow. In this day and age, young females are extremely materialistic. Blair and Serena are prime examples becasue they have to have the latest trends and expensive jewlery from Tiffany's. The reader's attention is grabbed because after being introduced to the main characters, one wants to know who will finally end up with Nate.
    • 3/5
      This book was ok for a starter, if i hadn't read the prequel book before hand i would have been completely lost. Other then that, there was a ton of drama, gets juicer as you read. :)
    • 4/5
      Awesome Book! The best of the Gossip Girl Series yet! If I hadn't gotten hooked on the Gossip Girl crazy years ago - I wouldn't have read this book, but it was so worth it. I loved how it had just enough back story on the characters and you received another look into the character's lives. The best of the Gossip Girls yet! I would recomend this book to anyone and I would recomend it more than the other Gossip Girls! I loved it!
    • 3/5
      I actually read this before I started the series. It ave me totally false hope, the series sucks, but this is readable. Its easy to read and fairly inoffensive, at least to me, a person who really couldn't really care less about sex in books.