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    First Comes Love
    First Comes Love
    First Comes Love
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    First Comes Love

    By Katie Kacvinsky

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    Like his name, Gray is dark and stormy. Dylan, a girl who is seemingly unable to settle down, is the exact opposite: full of light and life. On the outside, they seem like an unlikely couple. But looks can be deceiving, and besides, opposites attract. What starts as friendship turns into admiration, respect, and caring, until finally these two lone souls find that they are truly in love with each other. But staying in love is never as easy as falling in love. If Dylan and Gray want their love to last, they're going to have to work at it . . .

    This ebook includes a sample chapter from AWAKEN.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 8, 2012
    ISBN9780547822341
    First Comes Love
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    Katie Kacvinsky

    Katie Kacvinsky worked in the entertainment industry and as a high school English teacher before deciding to write full time.

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    • 4/5
      I really liked this book! It was sweet and angsty with a touch of humor. I love how its is written in both Gray and Dylan's POV, with Dylan being carefree spirit and Gray being kind of stiff, but when they came together it was sweet. I also love how they both had a great love of music and the playlists in the back of the book. I like both covers for this book and loved Kacvinsky's writing style. The book and story was very realistic with the characters and the love story being normal. Dylan with her quirky-oddness and Gray with his numb make the cutest odd couple.

      Swoonworthy Points: 7.5
      There were multiple layers of swoonworthiness in First Comes Love. In the beginning Dylan was swooning Gray and by the end the roles were reversed. It was very sweet (gave me butterflies) and steamy at times.

      Summary
      Girl on the sidewalk watching ants; Boy hiding in the shadows alone. Their paths cross literally, and thus begins their friendship... but not by Gray's choice. Dylan is voracious in her attempts to make him smile, to figure out the enigma of Gray. Eventually they come together and form a strong bond. But when the summer ends, Dylan and her free spirit take off for a new destination. Is their love strong enough to pull them back together?

      If you are in the mood for a great Contemporary Romance.. I would strongly recommend this book!!!
    • 4/5
      Title : First Comes Love
      Series : -
      Author : Katie Kacvinsky
      Pages : 198
      Release Date : May 8th 2012
      Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Thomas Allen & Son
      Format : Hardcover
      Source :
      *An hardcover copy was provided by TM & Son in exchange of an honest review. Thank you!*



      My Opinion :

      I was curious about this book because, for one, I had read the author's debut novel, Awaken, and it definitely was a great read. Second... well, don't you just love the cover? I find it... so pretty, and romantic; which represents the book.

      First Comes Love wasn't what I was expecting. I thought it would be a fun and light, but still great and romantic kind of book. But boy, it was NOT. It was sad, even a bit dark at times, and it was not the kind of funny and light romance I was expecting. It was a punch-you-in-the-gut kind of romance.

      In the book, there's Gray and Dylan. Gray... he's dark, almost in depression since his twin sister, Amanda, got killed by a serious car crash accident. And Dylan; she'S as bright as the sun and fun to be around. Now... why would they like each other? I guess opposites attract...

      First comes love is a really short book, which makes it a really fast-paced read. Some authors can pull it off. Others... not. Fortunately, this one was the former! The writing was just fast-paced enough.

      Although I found the book quite enjoyable, it just wasn't a big hit for me. It was between a 'Okay' and a 'Good'... although I'm leaning towards the good for a few reasons (the first one being GRAY :D Love him A LOT)

      The romance was definitely the best aspect of the book (well, that'S good, Cathee, because it was one of the ONLY aspects! *sarcastic*)

      The character building was really strong; the two main characters' personalities were well developped and didn't waver or become something else (well, Gray's did change a little, but it had something to do with the book :D)
    • 1/5
      No. Just... no. This book serves one purpose and that is to irritate the hell out of me.

      Maybe it's because I don't generally read books that are centered solely on a romance, but this book bored me nearly to tears. I literally could not read more than maybe three pages at a time before I just wanted to fall asleep in the middle of the day, jump off a cliff, and then have a root canal. Seriously.

      I really wanted to read First Comes Love because it seemed like there was something darker lingering under the surface, and that the characters would be strongly defined. I'm sorry, but 'putting up walls' and wearing a baseball cap, and being tall and thinking only in metaphors does not a strong character make. Gray is everything we've seen before; he is every stereotype rolled into one. He's the hot guy who doesn't know he's hot, he's the awkward virgin who doesn't know how to talk to girls, he's the slacker who takes 'easy-A' courses, he's the popular jock, he's the broody mysterious guy who doesn't let anyone in. Puke.

      Dylan is no better. She's got a strange name, she's pretty but doesn't realize it, she dresses 'weird' and asks 'weird questions.' Every time we're stuck reading from her point of view, I want to strangle a kitten. She only speaks, acts, and thinks in cliches. Of course, as cool and pretty and wild and different as she is, she's a virgin too, because if she wasn't chaste that would be baaaaad. Just like every other YA book, I'm tired of the slut-shaming that's going on here.

      Another thing that really affected my reading experience was the alternating points of view. Mid chapter, we would switch up the POV. I'm talking mid-freaking-conversation. Because of this I felt wholly disconnected from the characters, and anything I might have found in common with them was lost in translation.

      The book's saving grace was definitely the ending. While the entire budding relationship and the whole dead family member thing was slow and honestly pointless, the end brought it back to reality. I never really understood why the characters fell in love in the first place (probably because I couldn't connect with or identify any of their motivations -- seriously, if you hate someone you're not going to be spending time with them) but the last maybe 40 pages of the book rang true and really seemed how two real people who loved each other would act. Especially if they were separated.

      All in all, I just felt like the entire plot itself was a plot device. If that makes any sense. The characters were obvious cliches, and I couldn't connect with them at all. Dylan made no sense -- no one thinks in metaphors 100% of the time -- and Gray was just plain boring. Maybe if Kacvinsky didn't try so hard to make her girl 'different' and her boy 'wounded' then I would have enjoyed the book a lot more.
    • 4/5
      After reading this story, I feel like this is good point of view of falling in love and not even knowing it. It all happens so fast and yet you can not get enough of it.So this is typical love story with a twist. For me, this story is much more realistic than intsa-love. They take their time getting to know each other. Going out on trips, taking a stroll down memory lane, telling secrets they never told before. They shared their hurt with each other, allowing the other to be a good friend and be comfort to them. I really loved this part.Now for the part that bugs me. It may be a bit spoilery, so I apologize in advance. Why would you leave something good behind? That's all I'm going to say. I really dislike the ending. It got me furious that someone can be so dumb! UGH! Moving on...This story is much more, how can I say descriptive in their love. They are real, in your face, completely honest with the their feelings and actions and that's what got me hooked. I guess you can say with the ending, after I think about it, people do get scared and leave. It happens. I recommend this book for 18+. Given that their is sexual activity, drinking, and such going on.First Comes Love is a great adaption of what happens in real life. Their no love-dovey romance and all flowers. It's real LOVE, formed by two people taking the time to get to know each other.They fight, kiss and make up like a real couple does. And that people is a real relationship. First Come Loves is an solid story with lots of emotion. Landing a crowd please, First Comes Love is great!
    • 5/5
      Honestly, the story itself is somewhat cliched, but the way it's told makes it wonderful. The writing is great. I've read a lot of blah books lately and this one just hooked me. I read it in one day because I just couldn't put it down for long.
    • 2/5
      This book just wasn’t for me. I absolutely loved Katie’s first book, Awaken, and couldn’t wait to read anything else by her. I knew this book would be different; Awaken was dystopian this was contemporary. The writing was just as wonderful as her first book but I didn’t care for the story at all.This is a story of firsts. First encounter, first kiss, first love, first obstacle, so many firsts.The story is told from alternative points of view, which I really enjoyed. Sometimes it switches perspective in the middle of a chapter but it’s clearly marked when it does, so as not to confuse the reader. Gray has done nothing but build walls around himself, ever since his twin sister died, in an attempt to block out the rest of the world. That is until Dylan shows up and starts to break down those walls.Gray & Dylan meet at community college were they are both taking summer courses. During their first conversation Dylan asks Gray to give her a tour of the city, talk about being blunt, but that is just Dylan. She is outgoing, goofy, honest, and completely her own person; she doesn’t care what other people think of her. At first Gray thinks she’s completely weird but slowly he realizes his feelings for her have taken a complete 360.I honestly didn’t care for Gray or Dylan. Gray was kind of blah, and Dylan was really annoying most of the time.This book is definitely NOT for young readers. There was a lot of sexual content that even at age twenty-one made me squirm. There are multiple sex scenes where TOO MUCH INFORMATION! TO MUCH INFORMATION! Was blaring like a siren in my mind. There was also a bit of swearing, including the F word.Overall, between the swearing and level of sexual content, this just wasn’t the book for me. I like reading about cute & sweet romances not hot and heavy ones. Despite my disappointment in this one, I’m still a big fan of Katie and can’t wait to read Middle Ground (sequel to Awaken!) when it comes out.
    • 3/5
      First Comes Love is a diminutive novel (perhaps ‘novella’ is a more appropriate term) about the excitement and passion and anguish of first love. Gray begins as a shell of a boy, plugging away at a dull community college in summer classes to distract himself from the death of his twin sister. He’s closed off, empty, and hopeless, with nothing to look forward to. Dylan is a free spirit who blows into his life and breaks him out of his shell. Together they spend a wonderful summer, exploring the hidden beauty of Arizona, learning how to love and what it means to be in a relationship.I was not captivated immediately by this novel, and in the end I didn’t feel much about it either way. The novel was just too short. Short novels are a blessing or a curse. Either the experience suffers because the reader never really get immersed, or the reader is relieved not to spend a lot of time on a mediocre book. For me, I was glad it was short. In a novel like this, where very little actually happens, and where the narrative is advanced primarily by emotional and experiential breakthroughs, enthralling characters are necessary to engage the reader. I was satisfied by the characterization of Gray, in that he seemed like a real guy to me. He was, aside from the terrible personal loss, a typical teenager. He dressed like a ‘dude’ (shorts, flip flops, baseball hat), he enjoyed tv, video games, and music, and he played baseball. Dylan, on the other hand, is a caricature of a hipster girl. She’s every quirky, offbeat girl you’ve ever seen in indie movies and tv. She can’t be tied down! She has to break the mold! Normal is boring! She drives a ramshackle Volkswagon, names inanimate objects (aww, isn’t she adorable?), is completely selfless, deplores materialism, and dresses like a hobo (she’s so hot she doesn’t even know it! how offbeat!). She’s not a person, she’s a pastiche. Of course Gray will fall for her. How could he not? She’s an ideal, and her only flaw is caring too much, darn it! She’s also mature beyond her years: while Gray needs to grow and embrace his emotions, Dylan knows that life is a series of experiences to explore and be welcomed. She’s not a bad role model (she’s actually a rather good one), but she’s an unattainable fantasy of an indie girl. It felt like the author was trying to hard to make these kids seem ‘cool’ – cool music, cool attitude, cool gadgets (iPods and Blackberries are mentioned). I never felt like these were fully organic characters, effortlessly flowing from the author.Since this novel is aimed at younger teenagers and up, I should mention the potentially offensive elements. Gray swears (he drops the occasional f-bomb), underage teens buy alcohol (not for personal consumption, but it’s in there), the parents are non-entities, Dylan and Gray share a bed every night (platonically at first), and there are mildly graphic descriptions of sex. For most teens, this will be pretty tame, but for more sheltered kids, or pre-teens, this novel may be too mature.To sum up, First Comes Love is a moderately engaging bit of ‘first romance’ fluff. It’s short enough to be a quick and entertaining read without dragging, but the characters and plot never won me over.
    • 3/5
      It's hard for me to come up with a good description for First Comes Love by Katie Kacvinsky. Clearly, the book is about two characters falling in love, but it's so much more than a romance. In fact, I would even say the romance isn't the most important part of the book. It's really more about two characters getting to know each other and themselves. Gray is a loner. An outsider. He wasn't always this way, but life took a detour when tragedy struck his family. Now, he's used to staying in the shadows, hoping no one will pay too much attention. But Dylan does. She notices everything, including Gray. Her mission: to find out what he's hiding from. This tender story is told from alternative POVs of Gray and Dylan. In this way, we get to see the slow changes in Gray as he steps out of his comfort zone and back into real life. Also, we see Dylan's motivations and her quirky views on how to live day to day. I enjoyed both voices and how it made perfect sense that this pair would come together.What I loved most about this story is that it took it past first love. Yes, it's great when love happens, but that's not the end of the story. Love continues and grows, but it also struggles. Love isn't always that hard to find, but it can be hard to keep. I really appreciated that First Comes Love took the readers on a journey that explores what love is and what a person is willing to give up in order to keep it. First Comes Love is tender, heartfelt, and uplifting. The characters have depth and the story covers many aspects of life, love, friendship, and family. It's a beautiful love story, that is simultaneously, fun, silly, sweet, raw, and heartbreaking. If you're looking for a scorching, sexy romance, I wouldn't recommend picking this up, but if you're looking for a deeply written story you can emotionally connect to, check this one out.Final thoughts: Borrow or buy.

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