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Pete  It was very sweet of Pete for cheering Meredith.  You can tell he does care about her a little.  I was going to say that Pete shouldn’t be teasing Meredith when she was sad, but now that I think about it, he was probably trying to lighten up the mood.  I am glad he was able to cheer her up because Drew is not worth your you moping around in Paris.  OH!  I have to say I love Pete’s coin trick too.  How cunning was he?  Definitely going to use that trick from him.

Karaoke                                                                        Those two teams picked great songs to karaoke on 70′s night, but I think the boys chose the better one.  Poor Meredith was messing up.  I think a bunch of people including me would perform just as bad as her.  Also, what a surprise that Dan can sing!  I wonder how the author imagined Dan’s voice.  When Meg was introduced, I was just thinking “oohhh Jill Cox don’t do to Meg the same way you did to Lindsay.”  But I guess the author just wants to make Meredith not realize her jealousy of Pete dancing with Meg.  Last but not least about the karaoke, how the heck did Pete get the whole room to dance?  He must be really charismatic to be able to do that.  

Meredith’s Pen                                                                                                        OMG that scene was soo cute!  See I love little things like that in books.  Meredith is frantic over her “missing” pen.  Then Pete shows up and sits next to her all dashing as if he didn’t just disappear for the last couple of hours.  He hands over her pen as if it was magic.  He later makes a bargain with her that he’ll tell her how he had her pen if she allows him to carry her suitcase for her.  Turns out the pen was just on her notebook, and all he did was grabbed it and handed over to her.  She was in such a disbelief after accusing him of stealing her pen.  I love them together.  I love it when Pete gets to tease Meredith.  I feel this is one of those situations where the characters can just look back in time and laugh about.

Chris Pratt                                                                                                             The thing I hate most about Pete is that he looks like Chris Pratt *insert puking emoji here*.  I basically didn’t even try to imagine him as Chris Pratt at all.  Pete deserves better hahaha jk.  Plus, doesn’t Chris Pratt’s church/pastor is against LGBTQ?  Total turn offffffffff, but correct me if I’m wrong.

Dan                                                                                                                          The first time meeting Dan in the series, I thought “okay this guy seems all right.”  This is me reading Dan’s introduction for the second time: DAN THE MAN!  IT’S DAN THE MAN!  He really is the man.

Rooftops Under Snow                                                                                           Meredith is staring out her window for the first time.  Then Pete walks in and suddenly decides to join her.  He mentions how by December she’ll have her own Rooftops Under Snow.  This scene didn’t grab my attention as much as other scenes between Meredith and Pete in the book, but I do love that they get to share this little moment together.  I just feels it will always be their moment.  I will have to say after reading the series, this scene just gets more precious.  I also love the way Pete runs out of her room like a kid after realizing he just won a bet against Dan that the first thing Meredith will do is go supply shopping.

Addison Girls                                                                                                        As I was reading the scene where Meredith meets all of the Addison girls for the first time, I was just thinking “please don’t be fake friends who are only listening to Meredith’s problem because you are into gossips.”  So glaaaaaad they weren’t!

Lindsay                                                                                                                  I personally don’t take selfies with duck lips.  Actually I don’t take selfies at all, but that doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with that.  I wish the author didn’t give so much hate towards Lindsay just because she does that, or maybe that is just how the author wants Meredith to react to it.  If it is, Meredith stop being so judgy!  Plus, another cliche I hate in RomComs is that the girlfriend or boyfriend of the person the main character’s love interest have to be terrible.  As if they want you to dislike that person.  I hate it because the main character’s issue isn’t “the other woman/man.”  It is the person you have a relationship with, and in Meredith’s situation it is Drew.  If you did have a relationship with the girlfriend then I guess that is fine, but so far it seems Meredith and Lindsay were just only good roommates in their first year of college.  Plus, it wasn’t as if Drew cheated on Meredith.  But then, if you do love someone, and they are not with you, you can’t help but hate everyone that person is in love with sometimes.  Gosh, love is difficult.

Drew                                                                                                                        I know I said Pete looks douchey on the plane, but Drew sounds douchey.  When Meredith was thinking about, he just seems so selfish about their relationship.  But would that be how you guys would react if you were in his situation? 

What do I think about Meredith?  She’s great so far.  I soooo understand how she is so attached to the number three.  I too love the number three and nine.  She is also Irish, and I don’t have much opinion about that.  I will have to say I used to have an obsession with being Irish after reading Gone With the Wind.  Anyways Meredith seems to be a smart and responsible person, so she gets three thumbs up.  

The first scene of the story is the plane ride to Paris, and boy do I feel so bad for Marshall Freeman.  Marshall is the first person that Meredith spots on the plane that will be joining her, and she is just thinking “why is this kid always snacking???”.  The boy just wants his snacks, but he is just getting such a bad rep for snacking.  I mean who doesn’t like eating chips and chocolate.  I think the author wanted to create a poor miserable dork, but so far he’s been pretty relatable.  

As soon as Meredith asks Marshall about the fourth delegate, Pete Russel, the fourth delegate, arrives.  He gets seated next to Meredith, and they have a little sassy convo on how they keep staring at each other, the Fee charm on her bracelet, and her bff Drew.  I thought that tiny convo they had was pretty cute.  Seems like Meredith is also as witty as Pete.  Also, Pete pulling his hat down to go to sleep and giving Meredith a cliff hanger on what Drew said to him the night before was great.  

What do I think about Pete?  When Meredith was describing his facial hair, I was just thinking “oh please don’t make him a dark, cold, brooding type of guy!!!”. I hate cliches, and I don’t want another Mr. I hate chirpy people/ let me enjoy my mediocre life/ I don’t know what is like to love type of guy.  I don’t want to read a book about how the girl changes the guy and makes him connect with his feelings more.  And he’s wearing a chullo hat and is in a fraternity.  Now he just sounds douchey.  I told myself to just be patient with him, and I am so glad I did.

I can’t believe that this will be my first topic on my blog, but I guess it is what it is.  I just finished reading the Bridge series by Jill Cox a couple days ago, and I loooooooooove it!  I can’t stop thinking about the characters, and what’s going to happen to them.  My heart is still heavy from all the lows, and my cheeks are still hurting from the smiles that the book has given me.  The series contains three books: The Bridge, The Long Walk, and Dear Sully.  

I will be blogging about the series as I am rereading it, and the first book in the series is The Bridge.  It follows Meredith Sullivan the main character who won the Beckett Endowment Scholarship to study at the prestigious Centre Lafayette in Paris.  The scholarship chooses three students for the scholarship, but this year it chooses a fourth student and that is Pete Russell who Meredith has despised since the first day they met.  They have an Anne and Gilbert thing going on (totally the reason why I started reading this book).  Anyways, Meredith has three goals and it is to win the scholarship, move to Paris, and forget her bff Drew who she has been crushing on behind.  This book follows her through her year at Centre Lafayette as she deals with family, being friendzoned, Pete Russell, and dating.