Love: A Tangled Knot by Eichin Chang-Lim

I finished reading Love: A Tangled Knot last evening and my review follows Chang-Lim’s book blurb found on Amazon.

“If love is true, how long should you wait? 
How much pain should you endure before moving on?

Love: A Tangled Knot is a new edition of a romantic novel penned by the award-winning author of Flipping, Eichin Chang-Lim. A clean romance about the struggles of a couple to keep their family together against all odds.

With the Golden Gate Bridge in sight, the story begins.

Kayla is an ambitious seventeen-year-old who is content to deliver “real-talk” to her boy-crazy best friend, Breeana, while running the high school’s environmentalist club. She has no time or desire for boys, viewing even a crush as an unwanted commitment. Until Russell Mancini joins Beach Cleanup Day. Kayla learns that she’s a sucker for love just like her peers.

Their relationship seems perfect, but fate conspires against the pair. Kayla’s dreams are shattered when she becomes pregnant. Struggling to make ends meet, Russell makes a decision that threatens to destroy their relationship, irrevocably steering his course away from Kayla and their daughter. Kayla finds herself pitted in a conflict she would never have expected.

As Russell’s fate presents him with a seven-year incarceration sentence, Kayla must pick up the pieces and stay firm in her marriage. Dreaming of the day her daughter will have a father once again.

Will Kayla and Russell untangle the knot that was once their love? Or will temptations and inner demons succeed in moving them further apart”

The beginning of the story was a little boring as I’m not a YA reader, but I do think that it makes for a great beginning for those who favor that genre. That said, Kayla getting pregnant and going to high school in her senior year with said pregnancy, resonated with me as my best friend in high school found herself the same way. So did my older sister. I felt a sisterly connection for that reason. We all make decisions and we all must deal with what becomes of those choices. Kayla and Russell’s story shines with the characters’ story arcs and how they dealt with them. This is a wonderful drama piece and I highly recommend this book to high school kids especially. The powerful messages within are such that I must give this book five stars. That said, I see that this book had two editors, and I blame them for the mistakes in the grammar, etc. Truly mistakes such as Kyla when it should have been Kayla, and this type of thing should have been caught by at least one of the editors. They have done this book and author wrong.