Between Now & Never by Laura Johnston

March 31, 2015 | 2 Comments
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Between Now & Never by Laura JohnstonBetween Now & Neer
Author: Laura Johnston
Genres: YA Romance
Format: eBook, Print
Pages: 324
Date: March 31, 2015
Publisher: Lyrical Press

A convict’s daughter should never fall for an FBI agent’s son, certainly not a teenager like Julianna Schultz who is furious over her mother’s incarceration and the injustice of it all. But that’s exactly what seventeen-year-old Julianna finds herself doing when Cody Rush, the cocky son of the FBI agent who put her mom behind bars, moves into her hometown of Gilbert, Arizona.

Cody Rush—studious, principled, athletic, good looking and blond to boot—is everything Julianna hates, or so she thinks. Yet a series of ill-fated events one night brings them dangerously close, entangling the futures of two people who were never meant to be.

Buh boom, buh boom.

My heart thrusts with a force that takes me by surprise. Telling me something I don’t understand. A splitting pain, a longing to slip back under. They tell me I was in a hit-and-run, but I can’t remember what happened that night. All I know is that I woke up with pictures in my pocket, a card from one of those photo booths in the mall. And I’m in the pictures. Cody Rush. Me and…

Julianna.

Her brother was there that night, and my dad, the FBI agent, was the one who put her mom behind bars. What’s the connection? And why won’t Julianna talk to me now? Somehow, she holds the key to it all, and getting close–real close—to her for the answers I need will be no hardship at all…

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2 responses to “Between Now & Never by Laura Johnston

  1. There’s something about young adult fiction written in first person that just sucks me right into the story! Between Now & Never is told from the two main characters’ perspectives which rounds things out nicely. I’m not one for rich pretty boys (Julianna actually calls Cody that) but he is such a good guy, you can’t help rooting for him. The dynamic between them is always shifting- going from the fact that she doesn’t know he exists to developing an intense attraction for each other in one afternoon, only to have Cody lose his memory of that experience… not to mention the fact that Cody’s FBI father arrested her beloved mother which keeps a wedge between them for a long time. I was surprised by how quickly Cody inadvertently finds himself in such danger (thanks to Julianna’s brother Vic) but that forgotten experience is the foundation for the underlying tension throughout the novel. I was biting my nails since Julianna and Cody can’t see the whole picture the way the author allows the reader to as the action comes to a climax! Other parts of the book I enjoyed were the way Julianna slowly bonded with Cody’s mother and sisters, the way Cody made Julianna feel special (especially in contrast to her father and brother), and her courage and sacrifice to try to hold her family together. Highly recommend! I don’t read as much YA as I used to but this is one author whose books I never pass up 🙂

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