**SPOILERS**
"After receiving a full-ride scholarship to Mills College for Girls, it appears Sarah's future is all laid out before her … that is until she walks into a poetry class led by Mr. Haddings, a student teacher from the nearby University of Washington. Suddenly, life on the UW campus seems very appealing, and Sarah finds herself using her poetry journal to subtly declare her feelings for Haddings. Convinced Mr. Haddings is flirting back, she sets off for school in the rain with a poem in her back pocket—one that will declare her feelings once and for all.
Mr. Haddings has noticed Sarah's attention; the fallout from any perceived relationship with a student is too great a risk, and he has decided to end all speculation that morning.
But everything changes when Mr. Haddings feels a thud on his front bumper when he glances away from the road, and finds Sarah in the street with blood pooling beneath her." (Grover)
Hit was an exciting read, I read it in one sitting. Granted it is only 215 pages long, but it kept me on the edge of my seat, both in a bad and good way.
The good way: I wanted to know what happened next.
The bad way: I wanted to jump up and punch everyone in the face.
The plot had so much potential it was bound to be disappointing. I had high expectations for this book, I am a sucker for teacher/student love affairs, and this was not what I was expecting. I was expecting an actual relationship to happen! The book was in both Sarah and Mr. Haddings POV so we got to see both of their thoughts, which was bad news for me because it meant they didn't have to be physically together for us to see and get to know the other. Ninety percent of the book took place in the present, and ninety percent of the present Mr. Haddings and Sarah were apart. They were together in all of the flashbacks by they didn't give us any real information we could have used to put their relationship into pieces, so it made me feel like there was no relationship.
The characters were dull and unlikeable, most of the book I kept reading to see if something bad or interesting happened to them. (Mostly bad). I think that if there was more back story to it and Grover showed more of Sarah and Mr. Haddings' relationship before he hit her, I would have enjoyed this book more. Many many stories can be told in two hundred something pages, and maybe even less! But Hit was not one of those stories. There needed to be more character development, I have no idea what Sarah was like before she got hit, how am I supposed to know how it affected her? The story was not over at the end.
From what I did see of Sarah she seemed too immature to even think of pursuing a relationship with her teacher. I did not like how most of what she talked about after her brain surgery was her looks, what about her brain?! Don't even get me started on her reaction when she finds out that it was Mr. Haddings who hit her! I didn't expect her to run into his arms forgiving him, but I also didn't expect for her to immediately turn completely against him. I thought she was supposed to love him? I guess her and I have different definitions of love.
Overall I would not recommend this story to anyone looking for a short forbidden romance. This story was more of a Manuel on "How to Get Over Being Run Over by Someone You Know", and "How not to Love Someone". (That could actually be a good book. They both could actually.) I give this book two out of five stars because I did enjoy the limited flashbacks and the cover is beautiful!
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