She then starts seeing Lucas all over campus (he holds down several odd jobs to pay his way through school) and her roommate Erin (a character I was quite surprised that I liked so very much) encourages her to pursue Lucas as a bad boy rebound fling. However, despite his protests, she doesn’t report the crime. Jacqueline is saved from Buck by a senior who’s in her economics class (he’s always in the back of class, drawing in his sketchbook), Lucas. One of Kennedy’s fraternity brothers, Buck, attacks and attempts to rape her in the parking lot after a frat party.At the beginning of the novel, two things happen: She’s at the state school despite being an excellent musician because that’s where her boyfriend of three years, Kennedy, decided to attend as a legacy. So, when Jane at Dear Author recommended Tammara Webber’s Easy as a good read set in college, I clicked “Buy Now” without even downloading a sample.Įasy is set in a southern state college and follows Jacqueline through the first semester of her sophomore year. Oh, and Jennifer Echols’ Love Story, which was just an okay read for me. The only book I can think of in recent memory set in college is Charmed Thirds/Jessica Darling #3, which I dearly love. Young adult fiction is limited to high school settings and most adult fiction ignores this formative and interesting time. Yes, it appears in high-brow literary fiction on occasion, but that’s not usually my wheelhouse. Yet college remains an elusive setting in fiction.
(Ignore the icky cover-this one’s worth reading.)Ĭollege was probably the time in my life that most influenced the sort of person I am as a “real adult.” (Note: Adulthood is highly overrated.) It’s where my mind was opened about the world beyond the U.S., where I discovered that Women’s Studies was a legit major and where I met my super-cute husband who also knows how to fix stuff around the house.
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