Excellent novel by the quality of the two heroes: intelligent, equipped with strong personalities and very different in appearance only. Indeed, a pass for a conventional woman and ice, the other for a daredevil trying to break social rules free. The failure of a traditional courtyard after a bet ends in a scene revealing the motives of the hero Kit gold honesty that leads the heroine, Lauren, to propose an original and most daring of him pact summer in exchange for his unforgettable role fiancée. It will help him reconcile with his family while avoiding it to be engaged to a former love, the help it grow more adventurous life before she breaks the engagement to become ineligible for a beautiful wedding and be finally free of the love of all weighing his adopted family. The depth of the novel results from the discovery by each hero deep pain for others and healing qu'apportent friendship, affection, initiation to the simple pleasures of life and those of physical love. Lauren is not only traumatized by the scandal of abandonment before the altar of marriage but by the successive abandonment of his life: abandonment by her mother, rejected by his paternal and maternal family ... This is to avoid being abandoned by the family of his mother's second husband she became a perfect child, a perfect lady. Kit includes gradually that behind that cold perfection, crying in the darkness the child still abandoned. It makes him live gradually tiny transgressions committed by children are sure to love their parents and do not need to be perfect. By thus causing it to play, take risks and to laugh, he revived and help to discover the family novel reality that was hidden from him and thus helps them gain their freedom. Lauren Kit helps to unravel family conflicts that have accumulated and stop feeling guilty vis-à-vis its two brothers, one dead, the other terribly hurt. Love is born in this complex way of romance. There, from the beginning, a physical emotion of each hero at the beauty of the other. There has to be looking for a complementary need for both to break their heavy social image (if déconventionaliser for one, is reconventionaliser for the other). There softness and perfect social skills to fade in favor of the other in Lauren (the positive obverse of his self-denial), which helps to get people talking and make them express their pain and misunderstanding. And there's a great kit with protective tenderness toward Lauren as children or frail. The friendship and tenderness are born between them and physical attraction is strengthening. Their separation from consistent pact is the latest test: how to say you love to Kit that comes only to learn to express his feelings about his family, do not be afraid to love you deprives your freedom to Lauren who has just emerged from a psychological prison. It really is a remarkable novel by its psychological subtlety: this double healing also reminiscent of "The Bargain" (so earlier in 1988 as "A Summer To Remember" is 2002) by Mary Jo Putney but on a totally different story; but in both cases, the heroines seek to be perfect not to be abandoned; in both cases, there was a pact between the two heroes proposed by the young woman and the male hero tries doutrepasser; in both cases, the problem is related to the mother of the heroine. The novel Balogh is richer in secondary characters, so powerfully evoked dailleurs suspects that they are or will be almost all the heroes of another work. It really is rightly that this book is ranked 36th on the top 100 songs of 2013 in the USA.
