The Mason List--S.D. Hendrikson

Her entire life Alex Tanner has viewed herself as a charity case. So as a result she chooses to punish the people who helped her, who helped her father and who helped her mother.  Everything that the Mason’s did she wrote on a list. This was what she owed them, she planned to repay them for everything.

But because of her pent up aggression towards their entire family she continuously pushes away the one person who has been there since she was eight, Jess Mason. He was there at her lowest, and admittedly knocked her down a few times himself, but he always cared for her. Alex on the other hand could not, would not, like a Mason as more than a friend.

The author makes the story interesting and you are invested in her growing up, mainly because the first little bit is a preview into what will happen and you NEED to know what happens. But dear goodness, Alex is just a whiny little B*$%H. In the beginning it understandable, but when she’s twenty and she’s done it for her entire life it’s getting kind of old. I would like to say that she had a great amount of character development but in reality she had a few people basically hit her over the head with 'reality' and her selfish stubbornness. 

Other than Alex’s immaturity the book was a great balance of plot and conflict, I feel as though there are a lot of books now that are just thriving off of drama. I didn’t get a lot of that but with Alex’s immaturity there was some drama but it was necessary due to her characters temperament.