The Promise of Amazing
by Robin Constantine
**SPOILERS**
I love a good romance book. You know, a good, easy, cute
book that you can escape into for a few hours that’ll make you smile. The Promise of Amazing is almost that type of book.
The
Promise of Amazing is told through alternating points of view, with every
other chapter belonging to either Wren Caswell or Grayson Barrett. It takes
place during the characters’ junior year, where Wren and Grayson first meet.
They wouldn’t have run into each other had Wren not gone to work at her
family’s catering hall after being annoyed at her guidance counselor’s “no one
is going to Harvard,” pep talk.
It’s a cute idea when you consider the whole opposites
attract thing, but just a glance at the YA shelf will prove that there are more
than enough books about the bad boy and good girl falling insta-in-love. It
started out cutely, as though their romance might be a real high school dating story, but that soon changed. When a book
revolves around the romance connection, it needs to be believable; I could buy it
if it was a story of dating casually to see if the two fit together, but not one
about falling in love at first sight.
