Across the Distance
By: Marie Meyer
SYNOPSIS: There’s a drawer I never open. It holds a picture I never look at. It reminds me of a day I hate to remember, but I’ll never forget.
I’d give anything to be like the other girls on campus. Going to parties, flirting with boys, planning for a future. But that’s not me. And hasn’t been since the day my parents died. The only thing that got me through was Griffin. Even though I didn’t have my family, I always had him. Only, now I’m not so sure I do.
It’s not just the eleven hundred miles separating us now that I’m at college. And it’s more than his band finally taking off, and all the gigs and girls suddenly demanding his time. It’s like everything is different—the way we talk, the way we text . . . the way he looks at me and the way his looks make me feel.
Griffin has been the only good thing in my life since that horrific day. I can feel our friendship slipping away—and I’m terrified of what will be left in its place…
WHAT DID I THINK: 3 out of 5 Stars
Jillian parents died when she was 6. Jillian and her sister had to move in with her grandparents. Next door lived Griffin who immediately became her protector. As years go by, they become better friends. Before Jillian goes away to college and Griffin leaves to pursue a career in a band, Jillian takes a chance and kisses him only to have him push her away. Jillian knows that there will be nothing between them, but they still continue to be somewhat of friends through Facetime and texting. Jillian has a hard time in college while Griffin is busy trying to get his career off by meeting with producers, etc. They lives become somewhat separate even though they try to continue a friendship and see if it could be more.
I have to be honest and say that this book was just frustrating for me. Griffin would say he was thinking about Jillian but I never felt he cared. There were so many times he left her hanging, plus there was his girlfriend. That whole relationship Griffin had with his girlfriend, I felt was to cause tension for the reader. However, it only made me not like Griffin and I started to disconnect. I did not like the way Griffin made Jillian feel. The way the relationship developed did not work for me. The heroine in this story, I felt, was the only one hurting and hoping. I wanted Jillian to have more and better. I love stories with angst. I love when the author tortures me but I have to first feel a true connection between the characters. I have to feel the love. I did not feel any love or deep connection outside of friendship and I am not even sure I felt friendship that from Griffin as they got older. In the end, I was disappointed with the story.
A copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
