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Summary: "Can Karen's love win Ben over?"
Review: "The Trouble With Love" is full of ex trouble and love triangles among a dozen or so River Heights classmates, starting off with Nikki Masters who is not only feeling insecure about her new English boyfriend's (Niles Butler) ex, but having second thoughts about breaking up with her own ex (Tim Cooper), especially since Brittany Tate, her rival, is after him. Then there's Lacey Dupree who blames herself for her boyfriend's (Rick Stratton) rock-climbing accident which has him in the hospital unconscious (Brittany's fault, though, from the previous book, "Cheating Hearts"). And more insecurity and jealousy emerges between Karen Jacobs--who fears her boyfriend (Ben Newhouse) still has feelings for his ex (Emily Van Patten) in NYC--and Samantha Daley--whose makeover of Kyle Kirkwood, a "brainy social zero," might have made him a little too appealing to other girls. And these were just the major storylines.Needless to say by my 3-star rating, "The Trouble With Love" wasn't one of the best RH books I've read. It was rather confusing with so many characters, and I actually had to make a list to keep all the couples straight. It's only told from the girls' p.o.v., which was a good and bad thing. Good being there were fewer characters to get involved with; but bad in that all the girls began to act and sound the same. And after finishing the book, I pretty much forgot what it was about. This certainly isn't one I'd recommend unless you're really into this series, a series that strongly mimics Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High books more than Keene's own Nancy Drew series.
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