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Owen McGuire is your typical college student who lives to play football, and likes to over-indulge in girls, weed and alcohol. However, he has his big sister Fable and his brother-in-law watching out for him and make it clear to him that he cannot go down this path forever. Meeting his new English tutor Chelsea Simmons does something for him, and opens his mind to new possibilities. However, he feels so out of her league that he is unwilling to give into the unwanted attraction he feels around her.

What I loved about this book:

Enjoyable student/tutor and popular jock/high-achieving nerdy girl romance
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What I felt needed improvement:

Story turns slightly unrealistic, especially towards the end
Even though I enjoyed it, this type of jock/nerd-girl romance is a bit overused, especially since it is a re-write of One Week Girlfriend #1.
The whole thing becomes quite predictable too, and always following the same pattern
Characters develop way too hurriedly on the account of insta-love

So it's been a while since I picked up a Monica Murphy book and Four Weeks Later has been on my TBR-shelf for some time. I kind of dreaded reading this book, and although I liked it, I felt that it didn't exactly meet my expectations. It was certainly nice to get re-acquainted to Monica Murphy's writing, which is one of the leading NA/YA voices, and who certainly managed to keep up the good work throughout the series.

Four Weeks Later is a standalone Book #4 in the One Week Girlfriend series and is dedicated to Fable's little brother Owen, who is now four years older and in college and experiencing problems of his own. However great this may sound, the storyline itself was disappointing, because it was a copycat of Drew and Fable's situation back in the first book: popular guy falls in love with underdog girl. Add in a little intrigue including drugs, alcohol or even revenge-seeking family members and you get yourself a Monica Murphy worthy plot.

But well, I won't condemn it totally. It was still an enjoyable read especially since there was the added bonus of a tutor/student relationship, even though it didn't have as much of an impact as I'd thought (hoped). But character-wise, Owen and Chelsea had quite a realistic feel to them: the lost college golden boy who doesn't have a plan, and the nerdy girl who has it all laid out and has difficulty dealing with the unexpected (ie. her sudden attraction to a boy). Yet, I feel like they change too drastically in the course of the story, which feels unnatural at such pace.

Four Years Later will also deal with some bigger issues college-students might have, such as drugs and alcohol abuse, and emotional blackmail. This gave the book a more realistic feel, even though I felt like those issues were not dealt with or regarded/condemned the way they should have.

But again, even though it doesn't live up to some of the deeper YA books that compete with it, Four Years Later was quite enjoyable and a nice distraction.


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Four Years Later A Novel One Week Girlfriend Quartet Monica Murphy 9780804176828 Books Reviews

This book was a disappointment for me. I didn't hate it, but I definitely did not love it either. The writing was good, and the characters were well developed, but this book just didn't do it for me, and it took me a while to figure out why.

Eventually I figured out that it was because I honestly do not think Owen and Chelsea will last. I am just like Chelsea, and I don't mean that in a "she is so relatable" type of way because honestly, for most people, she is probably not a particularly relatable character, but for me, she was. Skipped a grade? Check. Incredibly socially awkward? Check. Can't string a sentence together in front of a cute guy? Check. And because I understand her, I don't think her and Owen will work. In fact, I don't see the appeal in Owen at all. First of all, he is Fable's little brother who we first met as a 14 year old, so that's weird to begin with, and he is supposed to be this dark, sexy, brooding character, but to me, he was just a whiny drug addict who had every opportunity in the world to turn his life around and wasn't. That's not to say that he didn't have his moments, he did, just not enough of them for me to really love his character.

People always say that opposites attract, and that is true up to a point. However, relationships without strong foundations and mutual interests will not last. Owen and Chelsea have absolutely zero in common. At one point one of them, I think it was Chelsea, thought something along the lines of "we only talk about school and flirt and I am falling in love." If you only talk about the classes you are tutoring him in or flirt with him, do you even know anything about him? What is his favorite food? Favorite color? Favorite TV show? His major? This doesn't sound like a strong foundation to me, but I could be alone on that one.

The other thing that bothered me was that this book didn't feel like it ended, more like it was just over. When the last chapter of a book, especially one that is the last book in a series, is "One Year Later," I expect it to tell me all about what the characters are up to, what they are planning, and give me an overall warm fuzzy feeling about everyone I met during the series. That is not what happened. Instead I got "We don't know what we're doing" and "We're in love, so we don't need a plan." Umm... No. That is not how it works, and there is no way Chelsea would actually be okay with that.

Despite what this rant of negativity would have you believe, I did not hate this book. However, it definitely fell way short for me.
Owen McGuire is your typical college student who lives to play football, and likes to over-indulge in girls, weed and alcohol. However, he has his big sister Fable and his brother-in-law watching out for him and make it clear to him that he cannot go down this path forever. Meeting his new English tutor Chelsea Simmons does something for him, and opens his mind to new possibilities. However, he feels so out of her league that he is unwilling to give into the unwanted attraction he feels around her.

What I loved about this book

Enjoyable student/tutor and popular jock/high-achieving nerdy girl romance
ml

What I felt needed improvement

Story turns slightly unrealistic, especially towards the end
Even though I enjoyed it, this type of jock/nerd-girl romance is a bit overused, especially since it is a re-write of One Week Girlfriend #1.
The whole thing becomes quite predictable too, and always following the same pattern
Characters develop way too hurriedly on the account of insta-love

So it's been a while since I picked up a Monica Murphy book and Four Weeks Later has been on my TBR-shelf for some time. I kind of dreaded reading this book, and although I liked it, I felt that it didn't exactly meet my expectations. It was certainly nice to get re-acquainted to Monica Murphy's writing, which is one of the leading NA/YA voices, and who certainly managed to keep up the good work throughout the series.

Four Weeks Later is a standalone Book #4 in the One Week Girlfriend series and is dedicated to Fable's little brother Owen, who is now four years older and in college and experiencing problems of his own. However great this may sound, the storyline itself was disappointing, because it was a copycat of Drew and Fable's situation back in the first book popular guy falls in love with underdog girl. Add in a little intrigue including drugs, alcohol or even revenge-seeking family members and you get yourself a Monica Murphy worthy plot.

But well, I won't condemn it totally. It was still an enjoyable read especially since there was the added bonus of a tutor/student relationship, even though it didn't have as much of an impact as I'd thought (hoped). But character-wise, Owen and Chelsea had quite a realistic feel to them the lost college golden boy who doesn't have a plan, and the nerdy girl who has it all laid out and has difficulty dealing with the unexpected (ie. her sudden attraction to a boy). Yet, I feel like they change too drastically in the course of the story, which feels unnatural at such pace.

Four Years Later will also deal with some bigger issues college-students might have, such as drugs and alcohol abuse, and emotional blackmail. This gave the book a more realistic feel, even though I felt like those issues were not dealt with or regarded/condemned the way they should have.

But again, even though it doesn't live up to some of the deeper YA books that compete with it, Four Years Later was quite enjoyable and a nice distraction.