Andrea is starting that complicated phase of adolescence in which one already has some definitions of what wants for life and begins to reject others. She is now god-fearing, extremely obedient to her parents, and loyal to her friends. But her friend Amy is urging her to invite rookie Luke to Homecoming banquet at the Christian school where she studies and her parents do not want her to get involved with any boy, just devote herself to her piano studies and recital.

Luke is a true Prince Charming and a saint because he does everything to please Andrea and uses a thousand subterfuges to stay close to her but the girl runs away from him and ignores him at various times, which made me very angry and at some points of reading bored . Even coming from the trauma of parental divorce and suffering from his father's pressure, he proves to be more mature than his age and I fell in love with him.

The basis of the story is fantastic, I love books that use biblical passages and positive messages, but the writer exaggerated in creating 200 pages of a girl only running away from a cute-handsome-perfect boy. I think she could have give more dynamic by showing situations with Andrea's friend and even putting in more Bible messages. She missed the chance to make a 6/5 star book.

I really enjoyed the accounts of Andrea's diaries of challenges where she always ends with a biblical passage. I'm going to look for more of this author's books, because I believe that she should gradually would mature her writing and have many chances to write more fun stories like this one.
4 / 5stars

I enjoyed this book. I loved the premise of this book. I loved Andrea as a character and the surrounding characters. This is the first book that I have read by Cindy K green and i will be reading more of her work in the near future i also enjoyed the christin aspect to this novel it was different for me because I haven't read a lot of christian novels. This was an entertaining novel throughout

I didn't realise this was "Christian" fiction when I requested it at NetGalley, but it wasn't too OTT in that regard which was nice. Although I kind of missed what Andrea's five day challenge actually WAS because I pretty much skimmed over her letters to god, oops. But yeah it wasn't overly religious, just a couple of mentions of bible study etc... and then she and Luke "read the bible" after homecoming which I'm wondering is that a weird new euphemism or did they legit read the bible?

Anyway, I did like this enough but it felt terribly long and my interest started to wane... and I also didn't like Andrea as a main character - I honestly don't see why she couldn't have just told Luke straight away "look, my parents are super strict and won't let me date" instead of making up wishy-washy excuses which then in turn made him feel really bad.

Also I feel like "my parents won't let me go to homecoming/prom" could be an entire genre of American high school novels! As an Aussie I find it all a bit fascinating... and don't quite get it either... makes me wonder if American parents in real life are all a bunch of meanies too, because homecoming sounds like kind of a big deal school event that a kid should be banned from only in extreme circumstances as a super punishment? Not just "oh you have that piano recital to concentrate on"...

And let me talk about that - it really felt like Andrea's parents were forcing her to become a concert pianist, and that their dreams of her going to Julliard aren't really her dreams.

I probably wouldn't read any more in this series, but then again I might.