Review: On a Tuesday

On a Tuesday by Whitney G.
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This cliche-ridden NA/YA angst fest had me grinding my teeth at the sheer drippiness of the heroine and the way that the hero is supposed to be a nice guy but his BFF is the biggest douche on the planet.

Grayson is pipped to be the number one draft pick for the NFL when he leaves college (and his douchey roommate is going to be second). He's the big man on campus, all the guys want to be him, or be his friend, and all the girls want to do him.

Charlotte is a nerd and a virgin to boot. Grayson sees her once and is immediately smitten. He fabricates the need for a tutor for his women's studies essays and sweet-talks the college into assigning Charlotte. They meet every Tuesday at a coffee shop and Grayson tries hard to persuade Charlotte to date him, but she thinks all jocks are untrustworthy and as the biggest jock on campus Grayson is the biggest jerk of all.

Seven years later Charlotte and Grayson meet up again at their school reunion, they haven't seen or spoken to each other since college. Grayson is now a star football player, voted MVP three times, but he never forgot his high school love and has spent the past seven years desperately searching for Charlotte. On the other hand Charlotte has spent the past seven years avoiding Grayson. Retold partly in the present day and partly in flashbacks we find out what happened to make Charlotte hate Grayson.

TBH Charlotte appeared to have atrophied as an eighteen year old, she showed no maturity and her bizarre way of avoiding Grayson whilst still being in love with him (and not showing up after agreeing to meet him) was more like a twelve year old than a twenty something. Similarly, Grayson was just so boring, so bland, so Disney hero (apart from the sex, which once Charlotte got over being a virgin was raunchy, and continuous) that he was greige, greige, greige.

If ever I needed a reminder that I am over NA/YA this was definitely it.

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