On the Fence By: Kasie West

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance 

Ratings: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Synopsis

For sixteen-year-old Charlotte Reynolds, aka Charlie, being raised by a single dad and three older brothers has its perks. She can outrun, outscore, and outwit every boy she knows—including her longtime neighbor and honorary fourth brother, Braden. But when it comes to being a girl, Charlie doesn't know the first thing about anything. So when she starts working at chichi boutique to pay off a speeding ticket, she finds herself in a strange new world of makeup, lacy skirts, and BeDazzlers. Even stranger, she's spending time with a boy who has never seen her tear it up in a pickup game.

To cope with the stress of faking her way through this new reality, Charlie seeks late-night refuge in her backyard, talking out her problems with Braden by the fence that separates them. But their Fence Chats can't solve Charlie's biggest problem: she's falling for Braden. Hard. She knows what it means to go for the win, but if spilling her secret means losing him for good, the stakes just got too high.

My Opinions:

*4 Stars*

This is such a cutesy contemporary novel when I read it during Thanksgiving week but I wished I read it during the summer. This book looks more like a summer read. This was the first book that I've read from Kasie West and it was a pretty good book. 

Charlotte Reynolds, nicknamed Charlie, lived in a family with four brothers/half-brother and a father. Her mother passed away when she was young and since she grew up with a family full of boys, she grew to be a tomboy. I love Charlie's character so much and I could seriously connect to her because there is a phase that we go through before we know who we really are and I did go through a phase like Charlie did. However when her father asked her to find a job so that she could pay for her speeding ticket, she found a new world where she can act like who she was born to be. But working at this new job is not all that easy and can be really stressful for someone like Charlie so she found herself wondering in her backyard during the night talking to her neighbor, Braden . . . 

Braden, Charlie's half-brother and neighbor, grew up to be really close to Charlie's family so he became like another brother to this family. However when Braden spent many late night talking to Charlie at the fence, feelings begin to spark. I love the connection between Braden and Charlie and how they were able to talk with each other and not make it awkward which is very hard for me to do. I just didn't like how they wouldn't admit that they like each other until the end and kept on trying to make each other jealous when they were hanging out with other people. I also found it funny when Braden laughed at Charlie at a sport game because she acted like she did not know what was happening so that she can act like someone who she wasn't to her date.

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